Well, I was wrong about one thing. I thought that only the artist would change with the various chapters of this story. But Marc Guggenheim doesn't write this one either. This one is by Bob Gale, with Phil Jimenez on pencils. But it does flow pretty seamlessly from the last story. And with Phil's pencils . . . it looks fantastic. But, I'd expect nothing less. We have all the threads in this one . . from the last chapter. The Daily Bugle . . or DB . . is under new leadership, Spider-man is wanted for suspicion of murder, Menace is still out there running around, Congresswoman Parfrey is still dead which really opens up the Mayoral race and Spider-man still doesn't know who stole his wallet. But this issue seems to be about creating a new villain. This meth addict steals the money from the soup-kitchen where May works. Peter happens to be there that day. So he chases him, after switching to Spider-man. The whole journey, his luck is bad. He finally captures the guy, but has to leave to retrieve the money that's been spilled all over the street. Before he can get back, the guy escapes. He needs a drug fix. He stumbles, through a sky-light, in to Dr Connor's lab. Thinking that his stem-cell research capsules are drugs, he takes them. But it turns his body in to something. A huge bloody chrysalis that's hanging in the alley-way. But nobody can touch it because of it's corrosive properties. Peter, monitoring the newscasts, hears that somethings about to happen. He arrives just as the . . monster, is emerging. It's bad. It's really bad. We know that it's the junkie, but we don't know what it's done to him. Another cliff-hanger ending. Both writers, so far, seem really intent on playing up all the supporting cast in this book. Which is good. So far I like the new . . old . . feel. I'm just interested to see where they're going to go with it. In the meantime, though, we get some great stories.
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