This is one crazy comic that goes in many different directions at once. With lots of different villains coming out of the woodwork to come at Spider-Man as he deals with something big; It opens with Boomerang, Ellectrina, and Rhino tearing through downtown after stealing some important stuff when Spidey chases them. The chase comes to an end when Mayor Kingpin explodes a light ending the fight and having the bad guys arrested but not before taking what Boomerang stole. However, Boomerang got away. He shows up later when Rodney Robertson, the son of the newspaper writer and Peter who are looking to rent an apartment together decide upon a three-bedroom place and they rent the last room to Boomerang who turns out to be the worst roommate.
Someone wants to bring Peter Parker down and they know the way to do it is by damaging his reputation. So at an event to honor Peter at his old college Empire State University his old friend Cindy Lawton uses one of his papers to show how the plagiarism machine works thinking that it would show that he didn't cheat. But this was when Otto Octavius took over Peter's body and decided to go back to school and get a doctorate and wrote some papers one of which they're testing now and does indeed come back to Otto. Then he loses his wonderful job at the Daily Bugle as the Science writer because they can't have a plagiarist on the staff and he loses his doctorate. Even Aunt Mae cuts him down to pieces.
Meanwhile, Mysterio has been up to no good and he gets him arrested and he goes on trial with the Beetle as his reluctant lawyer. She begins to spit up rodents and bugs and all sorts of really gross stuff. Then he meets with someone who is behind it all who sends him back and convinces him to plead insanity which he does.
Peter Parker and Mary Jane finally get together which is important for Peter because he will need her help with all the problems he is about to face. Cindy Lawton offers Peter a second chance by allowing him to take Dr. Connor's class. He has now found a way to control the lizard and keep it from hurting others. Dr. Conner's shows Peter this device that may separate him from the lizard forever. The class will be testing it. Two villains come by to steal it and Peter with nowhere to change bumps backward and uses chemicals to cause a cloud to form to hide him changing and he gets the bad guys and finds himself shaking hands with Spider-Man/ It seems that he accidentally bumped into the machine and set it off. Now his personality and powers are split in half. Spider-Man has no idea who Uncle Ben is and therefore what the phrase "With great power comes great responsibility." He just wants to have fun. At first, it's nice to have a life of his own back but soon he realizes that Spider-Man needs to be back inside of himself. How does he convince him to rejoin? And what about the Tri-Sentinal?
This is a real schizophrenic book that has us looking here there and everywhere. Nonetheless, it is an interesting book choc-full of bad guys with a cool idea for a story. The art is dripping with color and is amazing to look at. This book is the start of something new and exciting for Peter. He has no job but at least he has Mary Jane. He just needs to pick up the pieces and begin again. I give it four out of five stars.
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