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There’s a moment in Fear Itself: Spider-Man #2 where I’m overtaken with a bit of jingoistic pride and suddenly, whether it’s intentional or not, this whole off-shoot miniseries started to make sense to me. After dispatching of rat-like villain, Vermin, Spider-Man heads back into the teeth of the storm: