Superior Spider-Man #10 (HERE BE SPOILERS!)

We get our first look into the post-Peter era and it goes pretty much as expected, which honestly isn't a bad thing.

First, Slott makes it pretty clear that Peter may be gone, but he's not forgotten.  Without Peter's memories, Otto struggles more than usual to "perform" as Peter, botching his interaction with Mary Jane to the point where she (finally) begins to suspect that something is wrong.  Meanwhile, Carlie's investigation into Spider-Man's odd behavior gets the support of Cpt. Watanabe, though Slott makes it clear that it's not going to go anywhere too soon.  Slott maintains a range of options for bringing back Peter in a way that would explain away Otto's behavior and, after Carlie's comments here, I'm guessing that we're eventually going to see a story about someone else taking on the mantle (since the public clearly doesn't know that Peter is Spider-Man, so it would be pretty easy to explain that it was just someone else behind the mask).

But, in the meantime, Otto is the man in charge.  I wondered why Otto would still keep up the superhero shtick now that Peter is no longer acting as his conscience, but, given his comments about getting revenge on the Owl, it seems that Otto isn't exactly completely altruistic here.  I'm hoping Slott continues along this line, since it would be interesting to watch Otto go further and further afield without Peter's influence guiding his actions as Spider-Man.  The good news is that I'm thinking that he's going exactly that way.  Although I'm not entirely convinced that the Goblin King is Norman Osborn, a conflict with the Green Goblin would be just the thing to send Otto over the edge, since I'm guessing he'd be a little too confident about his ability to do what Peter couldn't do in terms of stopping the Goblin and get his ass handed to him early in the story.  After all, I doubt that he's going to be happy to discover that someone disabled his spider-bots.

At any rate, I'm really just glad that this series is doing what I wanted it to do, focus on Otto as he tries (and probably fails) to be a good guy.  It's a much more interesting story and I'm legitimately excited to see where we go from here.