the Amazing Spider-man #617 - Marvel

This one wasn't really at all what I was expecting. It seems like someone . . a Doctor Trauma . . seems to be making a new Rhino. But we don't know yet for who. This one seems more bestial. It takes most of the issue before we actually see it . . him . . in it's entirety. Until then, the best visual we have is when we see it coming through some smoke as he gets mad and impales a scientist that's trying to antagonize him. And . . the other Rhino, Aleksei, is still around also. My confusion is in that I expected the Kraven family to play more of a role in this story. Later on . . the final 2 pages, we learn that it seems to be the Kraven's that have commissioned this new Rhino. And all of this was a test. She showed the new Rhino, the old one . . and told him he had to beat him before he would ascend. But Aleksei . . Aleksei is in love with a woman named Oksana. We're given more of their details in the back-up story. In it Joe Kelly and Javier Pulido show us how Aleksei and Oksana met. And how he was set upon the path of redemption. It seems that all he wants to do now is live a normal life. Which he seems to have accomplished. That is until the new Rhino shows up at the Casino where Aleksei works . . he's a bouncer . . big leap there . . and starts tearing the place up. I'm still a little confused though. I thought the Kraven's were assembling some sort of villain-army here . . going around and gathering up Spider-man's rogues gallery and getting them all in concert. This whole issue is pretty much devoted to catching us up on these 2 Rhino characters. I thought the story was ok. Joe Kelly did a decent job. Like I said, it just wasn't really at all what I was expecting. I also wasn't overly thrilled with the art. Again, Max Fiumara did a decent job, but . . it just wasn't a style that really thrilled me. I'm sorry. I really don't mean for this to sound so negative. The book wasn't terrible . . not by a long shot. But it also didn't really stand out. It just was what it was.