In fact, I started a completely different book than this, but I accidentally left it at home and then vanished for the weekend. In addition to being so far behind, I’m definitely finding that the mixing around of these books has contributed to my inability to review things at all well right now. I certainly hope this doesn’t happen again, but my work schedule being so non-conducive to internet activities is a thing that will be mostly over now. (Downside: I certainly can’t write reviews at work anymore, as I’m way too damn busy. This has both positives and negatives, one latter of which has been clearly demonstrated today.)

So, anyway, in Legacy, Spider-Man discovers that his arch-enemy, the Green Goblin, is still alive. And awesome things happen, in the realm of fightings and psychological warfare and unexpected revelations about Peter’s place in the larger world and potential romantic triangles. Thinking about it now, it feels like a set-up book that will have long-term repercussions for the development of the series, but at the time, it felt like action-filled comic mayhem. Which is to say, it did both things, and did them both well. How many books in the middle of a series can say that?