Finished reading Amazing Spider-Man: Spiral, this sees the return of veteran Spider-Man writer Gerry Conway to the character as he brings an end to the series by telling a very intriguing gang war story with Police Captain Yuri Watanabe at the centre of it. The book opens up with Spider-Man coming across a SWAT team outside one of Tombstone's strongholds as a stand off begins due to one of Tombstone's men shooting at Spider-Man. With Tombstone now behind bars it leaves a power vacuum within New York's criminal underworld which each leader of multiple crime organisations plans to use to increase their power. However Mr Negative plans on building his grip on New York's organised crime by exploiting Police Captain Yuri Watanabe to bring down his competition as her costumed alias The Wraith. Overall this was a great book as writer Gerry Conway tells a very interesting Gang War story with Spider-Man taking an almost backseat which gives Yuri Watanabe some great character development while the story itself is very captivating and keeps you wanting to continue reading by wanting to see the who's who of New York's criminal underworld and how they interact with Spider-Man and Yuri. The use of The Wraith being a secondary main character to the story works extremely well as the events that take place and the way that they affect Yuri parallels that of what has happened in Spider-Man's life but with a nice twist to the proceedings. The artwork by artist Carlo Barberi works perfectly for the story as it captures the fighting styles of Spider-Man and The Wraith greatly, while also capturing each character's emotions very well. 8/10.
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