Amazing Spider-Man #673

[flint_marko]

Peter goes after Strange, demanding to know how Carlie could have uncovered his identity after his spell.



The thing he has to do is give MJ the antidote, since she still has her spider-powers.

Also, Kaine is now scarless, and from the looks of it I'm guessing he's going to be the new Scarlet Spider. I liked what they did with Kaine when they brought him back (before 'killing' him off), but I'm not too crazy about prettifying him and making him some sort of superhero. And why tease the possibility of bringing Ben back?

And Julia Carpenter, the new Madame Web (I still don't understand why they had to kill off the old one and make her the new one) apologizes to Peter about the loss that's to come.

Comments

[wizardru]

Not directly, no.....but most of them happened because of association with Peter and Spiderman. How many people were duped into the Hobgoblin business who all had direct connections to Peter and Spiderman? Almost all of them are just one step away and were part of the domino chain that he starts. I mean, he didn't drive Betty crazy, but Betty went crazy because of all the spiderman-related craziness in her life.

I didn't even include the number of times Mary Jane was a target or people near Peter were put in danger because a villain knew that Peter himself had a relationship of sorts with Spiderman. How many times has a villain sought him out because he was Spidey's unofficial photographer?

Point being: Peter's not just being cautious, he's got stacks of police report blotters to remind him of why being associated with Spiderman is a dangerous thing and why revealing that secret is not something done lightly. It's not like revealing you don't like onions, tattoos or circumcision. :)

[flint_marko]

Even then, that's more of an argument that Peter shouldn't be involved with anyone than it is he shouldn't tell anyone his identity.

[wizardru]

Fair point.

Of course, Peter doesn't know he's a protagonist, or he'd realize this. :)