As far as Spidey and the Black Cat hooking up and becoming an item once again, I don’t particularly mind it . . . much. After all, as this issue hints, you know that Peter is making a big mistake in getting back together with Felicia, the even he knows that it’s not a good idea several times, only he doesn’t really care at this point because he‘s just so turned on by her--which, of course, will come back to bite him in the butt. There’s enough here to suggest things will begin to sour once Spidey desires his new-found relationship with Felicia to become more serious than just “friends with benefits.” Not to mention he also has no idea who Black Cat was working for or why they were after Bennet originally, so that’s also going to come back and bite him in the butt as well.
No, my problem is that with this issue and as well as with last week’s, is that by taking Spidey and Felicia’s relationship back to square one, it doesn’t feel the least bit fresh or inspired. And since we are essentially told that it’s not going to be anything more than just sex between them and that it’s going to end badly eventually, there just doesn’t seem to be much emotional investment in them rekindling their “relationship.” Not to mention that Felicia Hardy, despite all the development she’s undergone with Spidey over the years, is now essentially reduced to “Spidey's kinky booty-call.” I mean, she no longer knows Peter is Spider-Man, she's back to being a professional thief, AND she's got her Bad Luck powers back. While you could technically say Kelly built upon what came before, the fact that he put all those things in just pretty much threw all of her character's development right out the window. But then that's par for the course for Amazing Spider-Man these days.