WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Amazing Spider-Man #57 by Nick Spencer, Mark Bagley, John Dell, Andrew Hennessy, Andy Owens, Rachelle Rosenberg, Edgar Delgado, and VC's Joe Caramagna, on sale now.
Peter Parker's entire life has been upended by his former best friend, Harry Osborn, who is now the demonic insectoid villain known as Kindred. Harry had brought Peter, Mary Jane, and the entire Order of the Web together in order to torment Spider-Man, and the toll that his cruelty has taken on the Wall-Crawler is starting to show. When Peter emerges from the crypt where his latest showdown with his former confidant took place, he is very obviously beaten and bruised, both physically and mentally.
For all that he has been through, it's surprising that Peter can still stand on his own two feet. The trauma Kindred has dealt out to Peter and his allies was almost more than any of them could take, so the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man takes it upon himself to make sure it never happens again in Amazing Spider-Man #57 by giving Norman Osborn a grim final warning and th beating of a lifetime.
After the dust has settled at the cemetery turned battleground, Peter pays a visit to Norman Osborn at the Ravencroft Institute. There he finds the elder Osborn toiling away while Kindred stands firm in his superpowered cage, forced from the Spot at the behest of Wilson Fisk. Osborn and Fisk have come to an agreement regarding what will happen to Kindred, the two villains intent on killing him after a long and arduous series of tortures are inflicted at their hands. Of course, Norman is playing both sides, still feeling the effect of having his "sins" taken away by the Sin-Eater and his magic shotgun, and has no real intentions of harming the horrific figure that his son has become. Though he tries to explain this to Peter, the hero is unwilling to hear what he has to say, convinced that if they keep going down this road things are only going to get worse.
Norman is too close to the issue to do anything other than hope that there is a way to bring Harry back, but from where Peter sits there is only death and destruction waiting ahead of them. He laments that he once thought he could help Harry, but that the demons both inherited and self-made are all that remains of his former friend.
Spider-Man goes on to tell Norman that he is done trying to help him and Harry just to have them blame him for everything that goes wrong in their lives. Norman begs Peter to speak to Harry, having been unsuccessful at getting any response from him on his own, but there is no changing his mind, and Spider-Man gives Norman Osborn an ultimatum that he will never forget.
Peter tells Norman to keep Kindred locked up and stop trying to save him, and that he has his own family in his life that he needs to put first before dealing with anyone else's problems. He even threatens to bring the entire building down on top of both of them if he hears anything about Kindred being released from his confinement. Norman can only think of saving his son, and when he reaches out to grasp Peter's arm he ends up being beaten on the receiving end of a one-sided beating.
As Peter unleashes a flurry of fists upon Osborn, his mind flashes to the visions of unimaginable violence that he had seen when under Kindred's thumb, and he is just barely able to stop himself from killing Osborn in his rage. However, the end of the issue reveals that Kindred is exactly where he wants to be, and his maniacal plans are still in effect as he waits from his cell. The fight against Kindred is far from over, and Peter knows it. Whether he makes good on his threat is still to be seen, but with Kindred's eventual escape looming overhead, there is no doubt that he will get the chance to do so sooner rather than later.