It gets even more ridiculous once you remember about Kaine, in Scarlet Spider#12 vol 2, he got so drunk he fainted:
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Keep in mind at the time he had The Other within him, some cosmic Spider-God thing, and Kaine still faints after drinking, 3 beers lol.
The "lethal doses worth killing herds of elephants", think that's from Last Remains when Kindred-controlled Anya poisons him (ASM#50.LR, though Kindred says "small elephant" there), but where's the second one from?
Yeah, wait and see for that.
Well, that contrast did Ultimate itself little favors, 'cause Spidey and Ultimates were the only things really liked there (Even if I don't see the hype behind Ultimates).
Well, Norman was actively pushing him down, was on a Glider and had his gear, while Peter was sinking on that ground, so that was a bit more understandable "Needs rescue" situation.
Yeah they sucked, but weren't doing much to make Spidey look worse, he looked like a chump in spite of them, which's kinda understandable 'cause Kindred uses Spencer's lazy magic powers.
Between her apparently regreting her decision to respect Peter's choice, Norman creeping up on her and Peter trying to white knight her when she really doesn't need it, she had little reason to chill out lol.
She was kind of a bitch unnecessarily in ASM#57 vol 5 though, calling out Peter for making a decision for them, when previous she said she regretted letting Peter save Sin Eater... For someone who was respecting Peter's decisions, after he started to make them, she was ironically respecting him the least, so basically, Spencer shouldn't write the other Spiders, only one who managed to look good was Julia in ASM#54.LR, even then that led into Sin Eater killing himself, and she doesn't seem to care, which's callous lol.
Bendis in general is bad at writing other characters, they mostly talk in this overly repetitive, snarky trying-to-sound-like-a-teenager way... Doesn't help he basically uses his own continuity and seems to prefer doing stuff more like Ultimate... Yeah lol.