I'm not going to argue for it, but I can say as someone who has read a lot of Spencer's work, this is not an unusual amount of padding for him. It's his style. He's been critiqued for it as long as he's been writing comics. The idea that this is some kind of editorial mandate to spread one issue's worth of material over two to justify the double shipping is insane. It's not like Spencer only has one idea a month and Marvel is forcing him to chop it in half so they can make double the profits. Look at Superior Spider-man--regardless of what you think about that storyline, it wasn't 15 issues spread out over 30 issues. There have been a lot of criticisms of Slott's run but I've never seen decompression be one of them. So thinking that Marvel editorial is forcing Spencer to drag out his storyline (especially when slow storytelling is something that has killed momentum and sales of other books) is not something that can be realistically argued.