You're right, and honestly I've been a little harsh on this story, probably because we've had a lot of The Boys posted on here recently and that's not a series that raises my opinion of Ennis.

As I said below, the emotions that this story tries to play on don't really "work" on me, but I can understand and appreciate that it could have value to someone who did actually experience things like Peter Parker does in the story. I still don't think it's particularly ambitious and it's a little contrived, but if the catharsis comes through for someone I wouldn't want to take that away from them.