It may seem like I've rubberstamped 8s for this run in my ratings, but I honestly haven't. This run is consistently solid, and I'm sad that it's only got two issues left. Alyssa Wong clearly had an idea for their run that they went for 100%, and that confidence really paid off.

Just filler

This is a tie-in that I had a lot of hesitancy towards in ASM 49 due to what I feel is a lacking editorial standard. That continues here, because while I didn't mind this story, I have issues with it stemming almost exclusively from editorial mishaps. The biggest one being Peter's incoherent characterization. One of the strong points with ASM 49 was Peter's empathy for the vampires, and his being very conflicted on how to go about saving people while not hurting or killing the vampires, who are mostly innocents who'd just been turned. This issue just sort of throws that away. While the Lizard and Misty Knight brutalize and murder their vampiric enemies, Spidey says nothing. It isn't until the end of the book where Peter again starts to take moral umbrage with the concept of mindlessly killing these vampires. A good editorial team would notice this essential reset of the main character's arc, and rectify that, but this editorial team seems more invested in tying back into the Beyond arc. Will we get any follow up on that epilogue from Beyond where Morbius had the Lizard chained up, and wanted to make more Chimeras? Does anyone reading this even remember that plot point? I hope it comes up, with all these call backs to a story from over two years ago. more

This is doubtlessly helped in my estimation by my fatigue at the endless, incoherent slog of Fall of X; seeing a main title do a coherent story in which all the plots fit together and move in the same direction is practically novel after almost a year of the X office grabbing randomly selected crates of half-cooked plot ideas and emptying them onto our heads