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Decades ago, thirteen mob bosses (called the “Vegas Thirteen”) were killed, cut up, and buried at a Gamma Bomb test site. The dead bodies mutated and fused and became this dude:
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Digger. And he’s out to kill the fourteenth mob boss’ family.
Spider-Man defeats him in the end, and he literally falls to pieces–at the site of Gwen Stacy memorial library.
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But unlike Taylor Smith, Digger at some point will come back together.
While the villain is falling apart, Peter and MJ are back together and are learning how to be a couple where Peter is fully transparent and MJ tries to accept his role as Spider-Man.
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At the beginning of the arc, MJ isn’t ready to go to bed again but by the end…
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This run is probably the only the one that consistently made “married Peter” work for me.
I’m a big, BIG fan of the JMS/JR Jr. run on Amazing Spider-Man. This is the weakest story arc so far. It’s not bad, it’s just not as great as the preceding stories.