I just found a Ben Reilly flashback story from 2009 by JMD in an issue of Web of Spider-Man that I didn't know existed. It's about Ben's days on the road, and is about the time he was working as a janitor in a school in Portland, Oregon. It was pretty interesting, although the art makes Ben look kind of like a beatnik. Also, it outright shows that Janine is dead rather than in jail. Which is weird.