This month, we find ourselves in some fancy building, where a Mr. Courtland has hired a bunch of big mooks for extra security since the Raft breakout, something his assistant doesn’t understand or condone. Then they get on an elevator and Vapor of the U-Foes appears among them.
Well, the security really worked out.
This Roz Backus lady is really making a mess of things. But she’s also hanging out with some kids at that building from last issue, as Spider-Man check out her place. She has a photo with a man and “NEVER FORGET” written on it, and a bedroom full of heavy artillery. Spidey is waiting for her when she comes in.
Spidey catches her up on how he found her, going to the big fancy, obviously unlived in apartment in her new name, then here, but before he cay say how he got here, we go see the U-Foes again. That Courtland guy explains Roz got at their money by distributing it to a bunch of fake startups, which then all went under. As Courtland explains that he thinks he can find her, we find Mandrill backing a truck into a garage not far away, and putting his extremely creepy superpower to work…
Like an even more specific and more gross Purple Man. Crossfire is still tracking Vapor, and knows where the U-Foes are, and given Vector’s past as a fancy businessman, has intuited someone in this fancy business is helping them find Roz. Speaking of…
She talks about how Crossfire assembled his gang due to them all having ways to control people, and how she thought he was the most dangerous inmate in the Vault. He’d talked 2 cellmates into killing themselves before being kept alone, and nearly killed the Armadillo for getting mad about it. We roll back to the U-Foes before she can explain why Crossfire’s after her, just in time for Courtland to find her. Well, he finds Angela Marcy, anyway. The U-Foes head out to get her at the apartment she doesn’t live in, Vector somehow certain she has something that can restore the U-Foes to normal. But as soon as they leave…
Man, how embarrassing is it that this series, this obvious cash grab, is 100% better than all 3 ongoing Spider-Man titles as it comes out? Like, no contest. If I was those creative teams (2 of which we don’t actually know yet, believe it or not), I would just be mortified. Kudos to this team for showing them all up.