I thought Morlun was a great one-time villian...I mean, it took a minor miracle for Peter to think up a way to defeat him as he couldn't take him on physically.

My assumption is that we can now add "healing factor" to Spider-Man's new powers, along with biological webshooters and whatever else nonsense they've tacked on after I dropped this book...

Otherwise, like a previous poster noted--no depth perception pretty much eliminates all of the web-slinging and fighting abilities he has.

Back to Byrne/Mackie, I remember being very excited during the first couple issues, with Peter trying not to be Spider-Man but still ending up saving the day anyway.  Also with the mysterious new Spider-Man running around.  It had me wondering what was going on.  Also, the treatment of Peter trying not to be a super-hero was very good, because it showed how he couldn't help but keep helping people.

However, this didn't last long.  In fact, I remember JB saying to me at MOC back then something to the effect that they should have kept that going on longer.  I don't remember much else about the run offhand, and i remember I lost interest and was going to drop the book, but JB left anyway so that was my last issue.  The crossovers were certainly a negative for me as JRJr's book didn't fit in my budget. Wish I could give more constuctive criticism...I'd have to re-read to refresh my memory.