One-sentence summary: In this issue, the Arrow/Ero story arc finally closes with some ridiculous goodness/dumbness, hopefully leaving this series to move on to a more interesting story for the last few issues.
Not sure what to say about this issue. It doesn't really read like Peter David's style; he's usually such a careful plotter, not quite to the point of leaving clues around or anything like that, but usually the end of a story at least makes sense. I sort of wonder if he just got bored with this and tacked on some ending he figured no one would care about (and he's sort of right about that).
I try not to give away plot details (thus the spoiler-free guarantee of these reviews), but I will say that the end of Ero in this book is just dumb, especially considering she's been leading up to be this moderately to very powerful enemy.
I won't say I was massively disappointed by this issue or anything. I wasn't expecting much of it, honestly; this hasn't been the best Spider-Man story (what has the best been recently?). Still, though, this has just been dumb.
I won't ruin much by saying this one last detail: Flash openly talking about having tantric sex with Betty Brant was one of the most disturbing exchanges in recent memory of comics, particularly as they just started dating, in comicdom, about a week ago or so. There's just so much of that that's gross to me.
The art was fine for the issue, though; nothing fantastic, but it was probably the highpoint of the issue. The half-spider, half-woman Arrow was pretty cool looking, I'll give easily. Can't heartily recommend this one, but I have faith enough in Peter David that I'm looking forward to his portion of the Amazing Spider-Man coming soon.
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