This sounded much worse in concept than it actually turned out to be. Yes, I'm not a fan or the art. Yes, I'm not terribly thrilled with the grim-and-gritty stuff. And the previous posts made it seem pretty bleak...but this really tied the whole thing together in a pretty powerful way.
It really seems to hit the emotional core of Spiderman, which sometimes the comics forget to do (and that isn't necessarily a bad thing, you understand, but sometimes it feels like some writers don't 'get' Spidey).