Spider-Man's Tangled Web #8

The second chapter of "Gentlemen's Agreement" arrives with a cover by Lee Weeks that frames the entire scene through an inverted Spider-Man — his masked face at the bottom, webbing fanning upward, his silhouetted form enclosing a collage of street-level tension: a young boy's wide-eyed face looming large at the center, Spider-Man crouching protectively over a fallen figure near a yellow taxi, and armed men closing in against a New York cityscape. Weeks's spare, noir-inflected linework gives the whole image a quiet dread that fits perfectly with the grounded, human-scale storytelling Tangled Web is known for. If Part One left you hooked, this middle chapter looks set to keep the pressure squarely on everyone caught in Spider-Man's world — hero and bystander alike.