First of all, this issue sports a fantastic cover by Joe Quesada. We haven't seen a lot of his work lately, since he's so busy. It looks good. Anyways, this story seems to revolve around the relationship between JJJ and Spidey. Now that he's Mayor, Jonah has decided to redouble his efforts to rid his town of the 'web-crawling menace'. We always knew that Jonah had a soft spot for 'ol Spidey, but now . . now I think he's starting to go over the edge a bit. Spidey goes to his office to try to make peace with him, but he's fired on by a team of SWAT agents. "You've budgeted a dedicated SWAT team for me? In this financial climate? You're a lunatic." But Jonah just screams out the window, My Anti-Spider squad will hunt you down around the clock! You're finished in my city . . and there's nothing you can do about it!" So what does Peter decide to do? " . . being hounded and hunted 24/7 by a guy who's crazy enough to impose a tax on babies' pacifiers to buy bullets . . wow. Every day I'm at large, it's only gonna make Jonah angrier . . heh . . in fact, it'll drive him nuts. Having Spider-man in his face morning, noon and night would absolutely make Jonah lose his mind! Look out, Big Apple! As of this moment . . your friendly neighborhood Spider-man is on swing-shift!" We also find out that the Vulture may be back. I think it's him. I'm not sure. But if so . . he's deadlier than ever. Peter has someone hanging out in his apartment. We don't know who it is yet, but she's been cleaning up for him and organizing his mail while he's been gone for the last 6 weeks. And . . while at Aunt May's showering, Peter accidentally walks in and finds Aunt May and Jonah's father sleeping together. There's a vision that he'll never be able to erase from his eyes. Mark Waid and Mike McKone are in charge of the book right now. This one, I thought, had a pretty good feel to it, but . . there's still an awful lot of his supporting cast that didn't get any focus. I still firmly believe that it's the support cast that really makes this book. I like this format, the multiple issues a month, but . . I'm thinking they're gonna have to relaunch another Spidey title in order to cover all the characters that are involved. There's just not enough room in one title. Even if it does come out 3 times a month. But, that's just my opinion.
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