Does the latest ride in this hero’s every growing legacy warrant your time?  Read on to find out.

The official description from Dynamite:

Every great hero has a worthy nemesis. At last, the Spider’s great pulp-era enemy, The Fly, is reborn in the modern era. A wealthy playboy, with all the power and resources of his enemy, The Fly is as committed to the perfect crime as the Spider is to perusing justice. Determined to destroy the Spider before he can get in the Fly’s way, he issues his challenge, and the Spider must find a way to save a building full of innocent hostages while avoiding the tightening noose of the police. Now the Spider will have to face the one man who has the drive, the means and the intelligence to bring him down.

With this action yarn there’s been some high and low points, but through out its run the creative teams remained steadfast with the desire to deliver something worthwhile.  And even with a few problems here and there that fact rings true.

David Liss pens the script and the author simply has a ball introducing this new menace to our headstrong hero.  In truth for The Spider this couldn’t have come at a better time, his personal life is in upheaval so a new foe offers quite a distraction.  And from the dialogue to the actions taken it’s a bit hard to get a beat on this guy, but thankfully some moments of terror and even levity create an extremely solid outing throughout.

The art by Ivan Rodriguez is top notch as the talent creates a world of violence that shapes both truth and justice.  The visualizations of the verbal retort between our new nemesis and vigilante are exceptional, but that’s not really where this illustrator shines.  When it came to the hardcore action panels the pencil strokes simply evoked that classic era of the pulp, as the work simply authenticated this series.

The Spider #10 is an outlandish but fun issue that proves that the future for this character is going to be interesting. Recommended.

4/5