An entertaining issue that is almost undone by the artist. This could've been a lighthearted look at the lives of a couple down on their luck super-villains, but the art proves to be too great a distraction that I can't honestly recommend this issue to anyone. Now Zeb Wells continues to prove himself to be a talented writer, and his work gets inside the heads of a pair of super-villains quite nicely, with the conversation between the two in the diner is a great look at two opposing mindsets. The issue also has some fun with a fight between Spider-Man & Stilt-Man, as there's almost a playful quality to this sequence, when the two square off, and we quickly see Stilt-Man has no chance. However, in the end the artist chosen for this story left me completely disillusioned with the material, as the art is a second rate imitation of Humberto Ramos, and given I'm not all that impressed with the original, I'm rather disappointed to see the Spider-editors have managed to unearth a duplicate. Read Full Review

This is soooo slow and boring... Zeb... I remember he could write good Spidey stories back then. Maybe not this time... But I give it a benefit of being the first part of the story. However, it doesn't make the art better. This seem to be the first Marvel comic drawn by that mediocre Ramos wannabe from Venom 2003. Imagine, the guy drew only 15 comics for Marvel and I happen to stumble onto another one of them...