Let's be honest: if there was ever going to be a Marvel character who loved Batman it was always going to be Peter Parker. No matter how many times he saves New York City from certain destruction or supermodels he marries, Spider-Man is always going to be that nerdy kid from Queens who squees when he meets anybody even remotely famous. Disordered Minds is kind of a dream come true for Parker, then, if also a nightmare for Bruce Wayne, who doesn't take all that well to the fawning attention he gets from the immature, jokey superhero as they tool around Gotham City on the hunt for the brutal combination of Carnage and Joker. Writer J.M. DeMatteis and artist Mark Bagley do a fine job of keeping the two believable in a mismatched buddy-cop scenario, Bagley's striking rendering of Spidey's eyes in particular giving readers an early glimpse of the work he'd later be doing on Ultimate Spider-Man.
