Do believe the uncredited covers to this series are by Mike McKone. This issue of the Amazing Spider-Man Secret Invasion tie-in has a surprise guest star: Spider-Man.
How could Spider-Man possibly know any of that? What a dumb gimmick for a recap page. Back in Manhattan, Vin Gonzales wanders into the DB! so he can be there when we finally catch up to the first issue’s splash page. Not very old school to still be trying to get back there by issue 2. But, anyway, Jackpot’s fightin’ the Sinister Skrull there.
Now there’s a cool page! Nicely done by all parties. Meanwhile, Harry & Lily, still menaced by Skrulls, go through a broken window into… I guess a car dealership showroom?… and find a car with the keys in the ignition? What luck!
Back at the DB!, our gang has made it to the parking garage, when Vin learns Robbie was once known as the infamous street racer Rocket Robertson and lets him drive. Very silly. I think we’re more or less back to page 1 of the previous issue, almost. They go peeling out of the garage, Skrull in pursuit. Jackpot suggests they go to the FF for help since they’re near the Baxter Building, but it, of course, has had the top bits sent to the Neutral Zone.
For reasons I don’t quite understand, Harry & Lily bail out of their car, which crashes into a building and explodes, and now they’re separated. Also:
Menace actually used that axe we saw on his belt last time, how novel. We go back to the DB! car, where they’ve learned there’s no help at Avengers Tower, either, and then the Sinister Skrull is on the roof, throwing Jackpot off of it.
Meanwhile, the gang in the car has noticed they have no Jackpot anymore, and the Sinister Skrull is on the roof. And then he’s tearing the roof off.
Not really, no. I’d place the odds of anyone dying in this series at absolute zero, in fact. Especially given it’s not even written by the actual custodians of Spider-Man. That was a thing in this era. Marvel made it plain which books “mattered” and which didn’t. The emphasis placed on the superstar writers made it easy to skip things if they didn’t write it. A Captain America annual not written by Ed Brubaker? Don’t need it. A 3-issue ASM tie-in by not one of the 4 writers of ASM? Nothing important will happen. Really undercutting their B- and C-tier product, really. They certainly trained me to ignore product by random people, tho I guess they didn’t want me to…