#stan carter

Can we all agree that the latest issue of Amazing Spider-Man by Nick Spencer is the Greatest issue of them all and had the energy, stakes, and depth it should've had from the previous issues? Seriously, this was Really frigging brilliant and had me hopeful for the later issues involving Kindred, The Lethal Legion, Ravencroft, Sin Eater, and Osborn and beyond. As well as the prelude one shot of Sin Rising featuring Sim Eater. So far, I can't rank them yet. But, this issue was Way above the Gog arc which was my number one favorite and best story from Nick. Hope to see how else he does things here.

In Sin Eater Through Hell, Peter’s internal conflict stemmed from the fact that he felt guilty for crippling Stan Carter, the Sin-Eater (a cop serial killer who’d pretended to help with the case and befriend Spidey, had had three victims, one of whom Peter was (kinda) friends with, and was about to kill Betty Brant when Peter got to him), but he didn’t want to feel guilty about it, because he thought he deserved it. As we know, Peter’s guilt works over-time, it’s kind of his thing, even as it’s framed as a bad thing that he’s so often tormented by things that aren’t really his fault. So it was nice, and a bit unexpected, that the lesson he learned wasn’t to let go of the guilt, but that it was right. He didn’t have a right to let go like he did on Stan Carter. And he was able to fight again not because he understood the villains had it coming or that he was doing what needed to be done, but because he was self aware enough to say “that was a mistake, I crossed a line, I’ll be paying attention from now on and try to be a better hero and person.”