I liked this issue pretty well. I'm not following any of the rest of the King in Black business, but this is still pretty good. It is far better than the last Symbiote Spider-man story, that's for sure. My favorite part was the Neil Degrase Tyson reference. I laughed like when I learned he was Mike's brother (If you don't get that, forget it). This issue makes an amusing point about the old Jonah's habit of blaming Spider-Man for everything. He was so obsessed with the man he probably blamed him when he couldn't find a pair of matching socks.
I don't follow a lot of the characters here so I know little about them or how this ties into what's happening in modern day Marvel, but nonetheless, I'm still enjoying this story enough to maybe keep following this series into the next story. more

The writing is fine, but man, the art is really getting to me. Marvel, please stop hiring Greg Land. Have some standards.

Spidey and the Black Knight let themselves get split up, and the wall-crawler does better with his personal shadow-monster fight. Kang and Rocket stop by in a frustrating final scene; I hope they get properly engaged in the story soon. If they don't, they're just going to be a deus ex machina and these little foreshadow-y previews won't convince me otherwise. Greg Land remains Greg Land. He's not the only comics artist who goes into meltdown when he has to draw "people on stairs," but he might be the highest (most-over) -paid.

Bleh!

Greg Land stop please