YMMV / The Death of Jean DeWolff

• Harsher in Hindsight: In part three, the Kingpin expresses concern that the death of Reverend Bernard Finn, who is African-American, will lead to a chaotic New York. While Sin-Eater's reasons for killing Finn were not racially motivated and Kingpin is more concerned about the fact that Finn was a priest, the death of a black man at the hands of a white cop causing civil unrest has become all too real in America as seen with the 1992 Los Angeles Riots and the more recent protests of the 2010s and 2020s over the deaths of African-Americans like Mike Brown, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor at the hands of police officers. The climax of part four even features a riot outside the police station calling for Carter's head and some people accuse the police of protecting Carter, an allegation often leveraged at real cops when their colleagues are involved in extrajudicial killings.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: This story has Spider-Man wearing the cloth version of the black costume and acting more aggressive and violent than usual. One who is more familiar with the Symbiote's portrayal in adaptations as a corrupting influence on Peter's personality may assume his darker mood is due to the alien and not Peter's own flaws as a character, even though this story was written before that characterization of the Symbiote became more common.
• It Was His Sled: Stan Carter is the Sin-Eater, not Emil Gregg. It doesn't help that this was a major part of Venom's origin meaning you don't even need to read this story to know the twist.

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