The Good: I actually enjoyed this book more than I enjoyed Amazing Spider-man this week. The artwork in this book is way, way better than the artwork in ASM. Kubert does a solid job throughout the issue and his cover is one of my favorite Spider-man related covers in some time. I enjoyed this story in this quite a bit, and it was nice to see Spider-man go after Norman again. I thought that having Spider-man break in to collect dirt on Osborne precisely when Osborne himself was planning on taking out Spider-man was great, and the ensuing battle between Spider-man and the Iron Patriot was well done. My favorite part of the issue is the fact that Peter Parker is actually the one who gets credit for putting out the video that should seriously harm Norman's reputation. I like this because Gwen was Peter's first love, and it is nice to see him get some revenge on Osborne as Peter since that relationship was a part of his personal life and not his superhero life. The backup story is one I had read, but it was nice to read it again.

The Bad: I do not think there was necessarily a whole lot that was bad about this issue. The only thing I would have liked to have seen was to maybe cut out the backup story and make this one longer. After all, it was the last part of The List one shots and no one has a more personal or heated rivalry with Norman Osborne than Spider-man. Since they have to have a backup story I would have liked to have seen a different story than the one they put in. Granted, its an important story and a pretty good one, however, there are so many good Green Goblin stories that focus more on battling Spider-man that they could have used. This story has more to do with Luke and Jessica than it does with Spider-man. Not a huge gripe but it was probably the only thing I would have liked to have seen be different in this issue.

My rating: 4/5

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