Some of McFarlanes artwork was kind of good. (Alas the same could never be said for his writing..) The real problem came when you had all the Erik Larsens of the world trying to launch their Marvel careers by desperately ripping it off.

Personally, my main grief with it at the time was that I hated how they went overboard on the size of Spiderman's eyes on the mask. I know it sort of makes sense story wise, but I never cared much for that look..