Well, I'm a little behind, so I'm sure that everyone has heard the news about what happened in this issue. Yes? No? Well . . I'll give you my interpretation anyways. We see the culmination of a couple of story-lines this issue. First, and fore-most, it appears that Lilly is Menace. Lily Hollister . . the Mayoral candidates daughter. Harry's girlfriend. We find this out at the end of the issue when, shortly after beating the snot out of an already hurt and shot Spider-man . . . Harry walks in on her as she's changing out of her costume. Earlier that day, Lily and Harry were fighting. They seemed as if they were going to break up, but . . I don't think they officially followed through with what either of them was thinking. Then, apparently Lilly, dressed as Menace, attacks her fathers headquarters for some reason. That's what draws Spider-man out. But Peter was already injured from an earlier encounter with the Police. And he was nursing a gun-shot wound to his shoulder in the apartment when Carlie Cooper came in. She's traced the path of the Spider-tracer killer back to Peter's apartment. But it's not Pete she's looking for. It's Vin. Vin, Peter's room-mate, the Police Officer, is somehow involved in these killings. How does Carlie know for sure? She found a bag of the tracers hidden in his room. And when Vin's partner shows up, Carlie is really in trouble because he overhears her confronting Vin about it and he says . . . "I'm kinda curious how you're gonna get yourself out of this one, partner. You shouldn't've been keeping the damn things under your bed. We gave 'em to you to take car of. This isn't exactly taking care of 'em. Y'see Cooper. Vin's not the only one involved in this . . . . Surprise!" Now I don't think these 2 are necessarily the masterminds, but . . this appears to be some kind of Police conspiracy to discredit Spider-man. And it looks like they're going to get their wish because after Menace beat him up, she calls in the Police and it looks like Spider-man is finally going to be taken into custody. I'm glad to see that we're finally making some head-way on these story-lines. All we've been getting is hints and cryptic clues for the last several months. Now maybe we can find out what's really going on. Marc Guggenheim does the story with John Romita Jr. on the art chores. This one actually felt like one of the old Spider-man books. Or at least the most like one has in a while.
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