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Spider-Man just had the absolute crap kicked out of him by the Sinister Six, and Norman Osborn is being held hostage by Otto Octavius. After some emergency surgery, Peter seems to be okay, and with some encouragement from M.J. he figures out what needs to be done in order to put himself back together and take down Octavius before it’s too late. But perhaps the biggest issue he needs to solve – with just enough to either save Aunt May or replicate for the general population, what is he supposed to do with the Devil’s Breath anti-serum?

City at War was an interesting project – adapting the successful 2018 Spider-Man PlayStation 4 game for a comic book. In many ways they really nailed some of the key points from the game, but in others it feels like they whiffed a bit. Adapting a game as long as that down to just six issues means that plenty of things end up left out. It might have worked better as a graphic novel or as a longer series; I never felt the same kind of tension from the comic that I got while playing the game. But it was an interesting experiment, and one that I hope Marvel chooses to revisit sometime in the future (the game did have some cool DLC, after all).

-Carrie Wood