Scarlet Spider suffered a significant blow recently with the departure of artist Ryan Stegman. Luckily, the series is weathering the creative team shift as well as can be expected. The book is no longer the looker it once was, but it still offers a fun and enjoyable look at the newest member of the Spider-Man club.
Having set up shop in Houston, it was probably inevitable that Kaine would bump into the Texas Twisters sooner or later. Christopher Yost offers up a fun battle between Scarlet Spider and this obscure little team. While this issue offers a textbook case of heroes battling each other before agreeing to unite against a common foe, Kaine's tendency to duck and run and subverts the usual outcome. His aversion to all other superheroes is a continued source of amusement.
On a deeper level, the involvement of Roxxon offers Kaine a much bigger and more looming threat to deal with. His quirky, slightly dark relationship with new fling Zoe Walsh isn't as much a focus of this issue as I would have liked, but it does come into play again towards the end. Any attempt to force Kaine to deal with human ties and personal drama is a good one, at the moment.
Khoi Pham is doing a serviceable job replacing Stegman. Certainly, his work lacks the fluidity and energy of Stegman's pencils, but the storytelling is generally clear and presentable. Tom Palmer's inks help smooth the normally jagged edges of Pham's work, and the overall stylistic shift isn't as dramatic as it might have been. As long as Yost keeps steering his hero in interesting directions like this and dragging him into uncomfortable situations, the series can withstand a few visual snafus.
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