“One day Spider-Man wakes up and discovers that ALL residents of Manhattan have spider powers. I kid you not. In fact, their spider powers are better than those of the real SM. They have built-in web shooters, some of them are stronger, and they have the spidey sense that Peter Parker recently lost (SEE ASM #654 (you have no idea how long I’ve been waiting to say that!)).
Imagine waking up and seeing that everything you thought made you special was now possessed by literally EVERY other person in Manhattan.
What really works about the story is that it could easily devolve into madcap wildness and people just swinging around. And there’s some of that, don’t worry. But instead of dwelling on Peter Parker being mopey and not feeling special, which doesn’t even happen for the most part, what we get is a lot of seeing how spider powers change the way that people feel about Spider-Man. How his loved ones come to understand him differently, how his enemies do too, and asking the question about the difference between Spider-Men and the Amazing Spider-Man.”