You know, I really love the Octopus run. It's been handled perfectly. They showed a few possible outs at the very beginning and promptly squashed them. They then showed Octopus letting his Parker mask slip too much and having the ladies of Parker's life (all his exes, funnily enough) figure it out and hunt down clues to solve this mystery. Everything is coming to a head.
Of course he's fucking coming back. What, are they going to arrest Spider-man-Not-Spider-man and bring out another Miles Morales to be a Not-Spider-man-Spider-man again? No. That'd be genius. They're going to pull a boring timey-wimey rabbit pull and we get Peter, back good as never and we can go back to the bright shiny sadsack we always had. Marvel, missing the perfect opportunity to poke fun at itself, won't do a "The devil did it" again.
I've got to say, this run has been the ballsiest thing they've done in years and they've done it swimmingly. I was hoping it'd go on for a little long but the movie coming out probably set the schedule in stone. Hopefully, they'll shake up Pete a bit. I mean, being Ock has given him a lot of good with the terrible bad (that will probably be handwaved) and it'd be nice to see things going great for him like they were before... well, a few months before the good doctor took over.
Man, that new cover is a thing of god damn beauty. I think I'll get a print of it and hang it on my wall.
EDIT: God damn it. Fucking Norman Osborn is going to be the one who brings Pete back, isn't he? Fucking christ.
