Truth be told, this feels more like an Iron Man story with a Spider-Man guest-appearance than it does a book about Peter Parker, right down to the apparently arbitrary appearance of the Titanium Man as the issues villain du jour. To give him his dues, JMS does do his best to give us Spideys point of view whenever possible making the most of Peters voice during the committee hearing on the superhero registration act - but theres a definite feeling that his hands are somewhat tied by the (presumably) editorially-mandated plotting. This issue also provides a liberal sprinkling of Stracynski-brand humour, which can provoke wildly varying reactions in me dependent upon how well its integrated into his comics. Sadly, this time round its a misfire, and as his editors bicker away in caption boxes it only serves to detract from the real meat of the story and to cheapen what should be a fairly serious storyline, if the rumoured scale of the forthcoming Civil War is to be believed. Read Full Review