This is most definitely on the anticlimactic side, not even like the ending to Immortal Iron Fist for example was anticlimactic, where the anticlimactic was the contrast to a run with was full of big moments. This just feels like a Saturday afternoon type of issue, not even in this charming type of way in the way that it does not manage to tie the web of themes of run. but it does deliver you the essence with it being so disjointed, reflecting the different story of it, constating where all the characters from it are clearly. it just kinda gives you the worst version of it all. but as far as the main story goes It's just another issue with a little more appreciation towards Peter.

But I get it, this run as a whole was kinda Mickey Mouse/Donald Duck type of pulpy, it was not concise at all, disjointed, chaotic for a big chunk of it, overly long,, had a lot of inconsequential side sto,ries, and for the most part sort of directionless without much moving done, like kinda being in a limbo of sorts(at least for the most part). Still, there is a lot I enjoy and as a whole, I don't really mind it and honestly, I kinda enjoy those elements of it. There were also some high moments. But i mean the whole run is tainted like i truly believe that the backlash played a huge role in the whole way we all experienced it, it probably played a part of how it was being written too. I do get some of it, but largely i don't think it was all that justified and honestly i think the run got worse because of it, because it never really managed to truly take the best of the situations it created, because those situations were so very much hated( looking at you relationship with black cat). So a lot of my complains of being safe and being a limbo is kinda related to this i think. But i again we could never know for sure. Just a lot of the answers this run gave me personally, did not saddisfy me and came too abruptly.

Back to this issue, for starters, i like how it starts with the duality between Peter and Spider-man and just uses the idea of how useless spiderman could be as an antithesis with Tombstone saying that Spider-man won, just that his winning does not matter when it comes to the world. Then we get the moment between Spidey and May in which May says to him, that Spidey hurts Peter's life, which moves this antithesis even further. So all those ideas are pretty old,they are not presented in any creative way, they could be applied to this run, but honestly not much more than they could be applied to any other Spider-Man run IMO, but the framing is good. It's a little bit on the nose tho, honestly, the whole issue is, there is really not much beyond the surface of the dialogue. Sadly this idea does not go to any interesting places and kinda ends up rushed on a very predictable place. I don't think Pete should have told May about being Spider-Man, because this would have been even worse, especially since May here was inserted here so abruptly and her dialogue was very wooden. This is why i say this issue lacks charm because the relationship between pete and may feels very stilted, especially because of JR jr is so easy to compare to JMS's run.

The other stories while varied in tone were really not necessary again, they just clear the air really. There is not much for me to appreciate with them for sure, because they serve a pretty straight forward purpose without doing anything much outside of delivering just this in a form of story.