Whack! Very cool cover. Javier Pulido pitches in with the line art this time. That’ll be a lot more seamless than most fill-in art.
Oh, are we still doing the bit about not knowing who Mysterio is? I can’t keep track. Meanwhile, Carlie Cooper has met with the man claiming to be here dead dad to say she doesn’t believe his story. He says he did it all because insurance wouldn’t pay for he rmom’s treatment, and he decided the system didn’t deserve his loyalty. He says he gets his cut of Mysterio’s business tonight. Carlie hugs him and puts a Spider Tracer in his pocket.
So ol’ Mysty’s just playing everyone against each other. Still an unusually good Mysterio plot. Spider-Man starts mixing it up with the mobsters, and setting off all their squibs, which they don’t even try to sell as real (For some reason?) and then “Silvermane” runs in yelling that Spider-Man is ruining all his prep.
Well, Mysterio’s goons have swapped all the Maggia money with fakes and loaded it in his get away vehicle, so he should really leave, but he’s having too much fun. Mr. Negative tries to get his long-simmering revenge on Silvermane, and Mysterio acts out his death scene before triggering his next trap. Spider-Man’s danger sense warns him, but he can’t even yell at people to run.
Spidey comes running back in, and Mysterio starts trying to convince him he’s been behind all the problems he’s had in his life for awhile, in a speech not unlike Norman Osborn’s in Spider-Man 75, but our guy’s not buying it, and smashes open the fishbowl.
Mr. Negative digs himself and his men out of he rubble. He says the Maggia are dead, Silvermane is dead, and Spider-Man has been shown his place, so this all went pretty well. He’s mostly right. And outside, Carlie gets a text from her dad.
Spider-Man written properly has always been very Bugs Bunny, but that’s a little too Looney Tunes for me, personally.
What did I read where Spider-Man was already working with Yuri? Am I losing it? These long gaps between reading issues aren’t helping me. Well, that went pretty well. But that was yet another part of “The Gauntlet” that the Kravinoffs weren’t behind. This event is getting weird. It’s all a bunch of coincidences. I’m getting annoyed. But at least this was an enjoyable story, and especially for a Mysterio story, that’s high praise from me! I’m surprised the Aunt May subplot didn’t get resolved here. Maybe we’ll see more of that next time…