In the previous comic, Spider-Man helps a mutant Geldof decide to join the X-Men and at the same time divulges his secret identity to members of the X-Men team. More importantly, his relationships with Aunt Mae and Mary Jane suffer. Mary Jane writes him a letter explaining how she feels, that she loves him but is worried about the risks that he takes. They get back together at the end of the comic.
Previously, Wilson Fisk had been arrested for a murder that Spider-Man had gotten on tape and gotten to The Daily Bugle where Ben Urich wrote up a piece on the evil Wilson Fisk. But Fisk spent $ 3 million dollars paying off the right people to get out of it. Now he has it in for Spider-Man. Peter is having a hard time accepting that Fisk is just going to walk and begins to do daring things such as ask J. Jonah Jameson a question about why they're writing an article supporting a man who is against Spider-Man but works with Fisk and why aren't they writing about Fisk? This gets him fired from the paper as his question angers Jameson.
When he blows up at a teacher who seems to side with Fisk and the justice system that allowed him to go free, he gets suspended. When Aunt Mae finds out about everything, she phones Jameson and tells him off. But she's not the only one telling Jameson off. Reporter Robbie Robertson is quick to point out the flaws in supporting a candidate, Sam Bullit, based solely on his hatred of Spider-Man and ignoring his friendship with Fisk. Ben Urich is also wary of this and he's the one writing the article.
In the second half of the comic Spider-Man encounters Black Cat on the rooftops of the city after she has just robbed an employee of Fisk of something important to Fisk that the man was holding on for him. Unfortunately, the TV cameras caught both of them and assumed that they both stole the item, a rare stone tablet. When Black Cat leaves messages at all the papers personals ads and Peter is stuck doing the ads for the day and finds her message to meet her at a rooftop he can't resist even though Mary Jane is going through a rough time with her dad cheating on her mom and treating both her and her mom like trash.
When he does go to meet her on the rooftop Electra shows up courtesy of Fisk who wants the tablet back. Black Cat makes a comment about telling her master that she is not her father, which leaves Peter looking up old cat burglar cases and finds one that fits. But he's got worse things on his mind to deal with. Mary Jane has run away because her father has read her diary and has decided that she can't see Peter anymore and just might send her away to school.
This was an excellent comic with two great bad guys though I hesitate to call Black Cat a bad guy, perhaps, though, you can call Elektra a bad guy instead and she kicks ass in this book. Peter must find a way to deal with his anger over how the justice system fails sometimes as it does with Fisk. Black Cat knows this and seeks her own way of dealing with this which Peter can't exactly endorse either. This was a fabulous book and I give it five out of five stars.
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