Because Brian Michael Bendis is probably the best Spider-Man writer of all time. There I said it. Let's move on.

The issue opens like all the rest of the recent tie-in flashback issues where they open Pandora's box and reveal some of the past goings-ons involving Skrulls. Spidey is fighting a giant T Rex in the Savage Land during Skrull-Off with the help of Skrullverine and various other Skrulleroes, and he gets smacked into the heart of the jungle. Where he gets to interact with...

Ka-Zar, Zabu, Shanna (Sheena?), and the rest of the mutates. But is that Skrull-Zar? Skrullanna the She-Skrull? Skrullbu? Spidey doesn't think they're who they say they are, and he has every right. He was there months earlier and they were nowhere to be found. But he opens the door for a Skrull-back (flashback involving skrulls).

Shanna (Sheena?) discusses how she and Ka-Zar had investigated the disappearance of a number of Mutates and stumbled upon Skrulltessa and the Skrull Agents mining the vibranium from the land (the same group the NA found in the first arc) and Shanna (Sheena?) drops a bunch of these green bastards with extreme prejudice and leads them into the jungle.

Then the NA shows up and screws everything up and all the Skrulls and a bunch of mutates get laid to waste. And then we're back.

Does Spidey believe it? Does he think they are Skrulls? Is he upset about looking at the web-underarmed-Spider-Skrull that got stomped on by a Skrull Rex?

Ka-Zar swears on the honor of his father Lord Plunder (That's right, I'm such a nerd I know Ka-Zar's real name, sue me) and we get the appearance of a certain red, white, and blue-hued possible Skrullperhero with a shield and little wings on his head.

Billy Tan is a fantastic artist. He has blossomed in a big way since his art first appeared, even since his first issue of Uncanny. It's been fun watching him get better and get a real grasp of different faces (kinda, that's probably his worst thing as a lot of people look like Jimmy Cheung characters), and it sure is a lot of fun watching Spidey get kicked by a T Rex.

But Bendis owns this book. Even being bored out of my mind by these damn homage covers and all this flashback crap, the man should be the regular Marvel universe writer of Amazing Spider-man. They should just cancel that crap book and make Ultimate Spidey the flagship Spidey book. And get rid of that Brain Trust crap too.

Final words: Skrullmageddon rolls ahead and only in the regular SI book are we going to see the reveals. But a little of the fun is looking at everything get revealed and all the past hints and mysteries get revealed after months and months of speculation. I just want some more dynamic covers.