Sorry for the delay in posting this, but I just picked up my books from last week yesterday due to it being a very hectic week.
Anyway, the Mysterio/gang war story heats up in part 2, with even more references to classic Spidey characters. When we left off, the Maggia, aided by Mysterio, were at war with Mr. Negative's forces for criminal dominance in New York. Spidey of course is on the scene trying to break up a firefight between the two forces. He talks to an NYPD officer also on the scene, a Capt. Watanabe, who doesn't consider Spidey a dangerous vigilante, since she remembers the now-deceased Capt. Jean DeWolffe saying good things about him. Whoohoo, classic Spidey reference No. 1!
Anyway, along the way Mysterio uses his trickery to make Peter think he killed a Maggia member during the fight, just to fuck with our hero's head. Mysterio does this again during a later scene where Spider-Man comes across a group of thugs. Spidey confronts them and comes face to face with their leader, none other than the Big Man! He hasn't been heard of since since ASM #52, a loooong time ago. But wait, it gets freakier. Spider-Man unmasks the big man only to find that underneath the mask it's actually Captain George Stacy! There's classic Spidey references 2 and 3 for ya. Is it real or illusion? At this point, Spider-Man figures out who's behind all this chicanery, and tells Mysterio this time he's gone too far. Looks like we'll get a Spidey-Mysterio throwdown next ish.
Meanwhile, as this is all going on, CSI tech Carlie Cooper is coming to grips that her long-thought dead father, himself a respected cop, has suddenly reappeared. He tells Carlie that he faked his death with the help of Mysterio years ago because he was secretly working with the Maggia and needed to get away for a while. Carlie can't believe her dad would've been a crooked cop. Is this also another Mysterio illusion? Guess we'll find out soon. Also, Aunt May, who last issue was infected in some way by Mr. Negative's touch, which I guess turns you into a mean-spirited person, berates Harry Osborn and the Reilley family living at her house because her house burnt down. It wasn't their fault May, Kaine did it several issues ago!
Rating: 7.5 out of 10. I have enjoyed the Mysterio arc so far, partially because of the throwback to organized crime-related Spidey stories from the laste '70's and '80's, like "Gang War" and the Kingpin-Maggia stories. The art is another main reason for my enjoyment of these past two issues, Marcos Martin is doing a stellar job as a Spider-Man artist.
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