the Amazing Spider-man #621 - Marvel

Ok . . you know that I'm a big Spider-man fan, and I love this book. But . . I'm just not all that thrilled with Mr Negative's character. Maybe I just don't know enough about him. I'm not sure. I just don't really care for him. Anyways, Peter and the Black Cat go after this Devil's Breath that Negative keeps threatening Spider-man with. It's some kind of contagion that Negative's developed. He can infuse if with a person's blood, linking it to their DNA, making it into a deadly weapon that he can point at a specific target. That's what he used to kill a bunch of the Maggia. Somehow, he got ahold of a sack of Peter's blood. So that's how he's been able to keep threatening him. His plan is to get Black Cat to break in, swap the blood with some inconsequential animals and leave with Negative none the wiser. However, they do come across Spider-man and a fight between him and Negative ensues. Although it's not much of a fight. Negative gives Spider-man a display of the upper-limits of his power. He punches him and knocks him 3 blocks away. But for now that's all the damage he does. Spider-man hides from him, and Black Cat completes her task. There is some other stuff that happens with Peter's supporting cast. It appears that May is still affected by whatever Negative did to her. She's gone home, angry, and kicked the Rielly's and Harry out of her house. But they did do a lot of damage. Carlie is contacted by her father. He has Negative's payoff and he's hoping that he and Carlie can skip the country. But Carlie is still having a hard time believing that it's actually him. He is supposed to be dead. She attacks him with some Devil's Breath . . it's actually knock-out gas . . and learns that whomever he is, he doesn't really have Carlie's best interests in mind. She then turns him over to the police. Harry ends up moving in with Mary-Jane. Carlie puts her cards on the table with Peter. And Dr Connors comes into the story on the last page. Overall, I thought it was a decent issue. Like I said, I'm just not thrilled with this character. Dan Slott writes it and Michael Lark does the art. Plus . . I still don't get this whole Gauntlet thing. Maybe this is just all the set-up, but . . it doesn't really seem to be panning out. I'll still be back next issue, but . . .