He was talking to him, gathering information about him. And he screwed up and didn't check the sources and got disgraced. We even get a nice nod and special thanks to Peter David at the beginning of this issue for his stellar work on that comic.

Now, we take a closer look at how Eddie was affected by this and affected the outcome of this.

The issue starts with Jean talking to someone at her apartment and being killed. Now remember, this is a year one styled retelling, so it's not exactly the same as it was before. She is gunned down and Sin-Eater mania spreads throughout New York. We see Eddie with his girlfriend/wife (unclear) Ann and he explains that he has a tough job for the Globe, only for the readers to find out that he's a lowly intern reading through letters page letters and gophering for coffee. While reading through the letters, he finds one from the Sin-Eater and is requesting that news reporter to be in contact with him at a payphone. Eddie goes on his own and gets in contact with the Sin-Eater, who starts feeding him information and wanting his story to be told in a positive light.

Think Zodiac and you're almost there.

The EIC for the Globe doesn't bite on the small amount of info he gets until Eddie finds out who the killer's next victim is and then that person dies. Easy, right? Eddie writes up the story and all of New York goes into a tizzy. He's a hot commodity and people are talking Pulitzer and the Sin-Eater is happy for the positive sympathetic vibe the articles give him. This gets Eddie in trouble with the law for hiding info and his father despises him for protecting a criminal, so when he and Sin-Eater meet in the church that will later provide further downfall for Eddie, he gets a name.

And publishes the story.

Only to be handed his job and told to book it as the so-called Sin-Eater he'd been speaking with was a copycat and wasn't the real one. The real one was revealed to be Stanley Carter who worked with De Wolff and knew intimate details about her and was stopped from breaking into J Jonah Jameson's Florida home.

And we all know what happens next.

There are some changes made to the story. Eddie's wife/girlfriend Ann is an African-American woman in this book, which is perfectly fine. I don't assume Ann Weying will ever show up again past this story anyways, and I'm sure there aren't that many people that even remember Eddie had a wife. I'm one of them, so I'm allowed to comment.

Eddie and the fake Sin-Eater meeting in the church, it now seems that this discussion was influenced by the symbiote (or symbiont, depending on who you're talking to). The symbiote was making a play for Eddie for a long time, and it influenced his downfall, thereby putting him where he needed to be.

In the original story, Spidey and Daredevil capture the real Sin-Eater trying to kill his next victim, JJJ. Stan Carter also was once a SHIELD agent that had been tested for experimental drugs, and in this story, we don't learn much about Stan, just that he was a detective and he was batshit nuts. Just like the copycat, who in the original story was just a massive liar who managed to get Eddie disgraced.

So this is just a story filling in the black spots and the blank marks.

Does it do it's job? It answers more questions than it raises. We learn more about Eddie, the purpose of an origin story, and we learn more about what the symbiote was doing and why it wanted him. It had been searching him out.

Other than that, not much else to say. Not as great as the first issue, but still a solid comic. Wells and Medina knock it out of the park as a tag-team, and they really know each other's strengths. Wells portrays Eddie as a liar, but also as someone driven to prove something to all his detractors, his father chief amongst them. He has to prove that he's a man, and he fills his life with a road full of mistakes.

Can't wait to see what issue 3 has in store.