Well, with this story-arc, Zeb Wells comes on board as the writer, and fabulous Chris Bachalo is the artist. Which makes his stuff even better looking because Tim Townsend is his inker. It says on the bottom of the splash-page "Gale, Guggenheim, Slott & Wells . . Spidey's brain-trust". So I'm guessing that even though we're rotating artists, we'll stick to these four writers. I do have a question about that, but, I'll save it till the end because I don't want to appear negative right off the bat. Anyways, I like these 3 issue story-arcs. With the different artists they almost seem like a stream of Spider-man mini-series. But, they're all tied together with the intricacies that's going on in Peter's life. We have Aunt May, unknowingly, working for a bad-guy, the Daily Bugle in upheaval because of the new owner and the health issues with JJJ. And that's just the stuff with his supporting cast. Peter has to deal with, no job, no apartment, no relationship, and someone who pick-pocketed him and may know his identity running around out there, and a series a murder victims all found with Spider-tracers on them. Not to mention him feeling guilty about what he's been putting 'ol JJJ through, and the fact that he hasn't registered so technically . . he's an outlaw. That's just the background stuff that happens every issue. In the main story, starting new in this issue, Spider-man teams up with Wolverine, because they seem to be fighting some kind of Ninja's. We catch back up with Spidey's relationship with the New Avengers. We see him eating some cereal in the Doctor's house, but covering his face as he's doing it. He and Wolverine get a warning about something that's supposed to happen there at 4 o'clock, so they agree to meet back then. What they find is some Ninja's chasing a scientist. Actually they're Mayans. After Spidey and Wolverine take them down, and Spidey is dragging them to the nearest police station, the scientist explains that this all came about because of some algorithms that they were trying to re-create that dated back some 300 years to the Mayan culture. The closer they got to solving them, the more threats they got from Mayan extremists. Until finally they showed up at their door and tried to capture them all. So now, at the end of this issue, Spidey has to go out and find the truck that they have the rest of the scientists stashed in. Oh, and did I mention, all of this is happening in the middle of a blizzard in New York City? Anyways, I really do enjoy this series. I don't really miss the other books, because we're getting 3 issues a month now. But, here's my question. They cancelled 3 other titles to take it down to 1. Now they're putting out 3 books a month instead of 4. And they're using 4 writers in the rotation. So, basically, they're using the same amount of resources on 1 book as they did on 4. But, they have 1 less issue coming out every month. Maybe it's just me, but I'm having a hard time doing the math here. I'm sure . . . eventually, we'll get some new Spider-man titles . . I'm just confused by the logic. Oh well. I guess I'll just enjoy what we got while we got it.
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