Anyway, he beats the scales. He also beats a giant “sixty-foot, evil version of Robin Hood.” (The Archer.) Eventually Mr. Astro turns into a scorpion and is lured into a subway tunnel; Spidey webs him to death. Or at least to submission. Then Mr. Astro turns back into Jane Virgo, and makes an appeal to Peter Parker. (Mr. Astro figured out his identity early on in the book, you see.) She says something that sums up their entire sick, unnerving relationship:

“Set me free!” pleaded the girl, fluttering her eyelids at Web Head. “Remember the fun we had eating pizzas together?”

And of course because Spidey is a Man, he has completely forgotten the bull, the shark, the archer, the surreal sight of oversized levitating scales; he thinks he’s going to get some, so he leans down to undo his web. Surprise! A train comes along and Mr. Astro is powderized.