I am glad my boys are gonna make it through the Conspiracy, and I'm stoked for this Ben was my favorite Spiderman back in the day.
You know I'm okay with the costume. YES it needs some tweeks. But I think it'll do for now.
As for Ben.
Finally.
Ben never grabbed me as deserving as his own title. Don't get me wrong. I loved Ben. And I was okay with his death because he was to much like Peter. Sure there were differences, but to me, not enough to justify keeping him around.
This Ben Reilly is different. A lot more baggage. Not totally sane. Drifting lost.
Different than Kaine and Peter.
So now there's a hook. I'm getting this title.
It does help it has one of my favorite writers( Peter David) and artist on it though.
So Peter is regular Spider-Man
Kaine is Dark Spider-Man
Ben is unhinged/crazy Spider-Man?
And will Kaine still go by Scarlet Spider or use another name?
Questions. So many questions.
But don't forget this new series is (no pun intended) spinning out developments from Dan Slott's The Clone Conspiracy. And the whole concept being argued in that story is that since the clones have the same DNA and retain all the memories up to the point the original died, they might as well be that person brought back to life. So whether or not Ben Reilly/Jackal/AnubisHead/Ben27 is also Spidercide 2.0 may not make any difference as far as Peter David is concerned. After all, PAD did place a lot of emphasis on how Ben is struggling with his sense of identity, which would be another, and appropriate, angle to the question of whether or not a person is more than just their DNA and collective memories.
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There's a slim possibility I might give this a couple of issues just out of blind devotion to the character but i very seriously doubt i'm going to be in this for the long haul. The creative team is the one good thing this has going for it but great writing and art can only carry a bad concept so far and to me the concept is not very good/intriguing.
We shall see i suppose.
Wow. First they brought back Ben Reilly, now they're giving him his own book. I'll admit, I'm intrigued.
Kaine's Scarlet Spider title lasted 25 issues, so I'm willing to bet this makes it past 30, but we'll see. With the regular Amazing Spider-Man title, Renew Your Vows, Miles Spider-Man and now Scarlet Spider - I don't think the industry can support this many Spidey titles.
RIP: Spider-Woman, Silk and Spider-Man 2099.
- Jason G. Carr
I think that Silk and 2099 are probably going to go eventually if not now, because of sales, but at the same time I don't think Spider-Woman is and I don't think that the market can't sustain so many spider-titles. They just need to be more popular characters in general, like the other books - ASM, RYV, SM, SS, and SG - are.
If they want to actually increase the Spider-line it's time to give us a Black Cat title. Have it replace Silk. Let someone fix Felicia. Please Marvel.
"We come into this world alone and we leave the same way. The time we spent in between - time spent alive, sharing, learning together... is all that makes life worth living." - Jean Grey
You were Spider-Man then. You and Peter had agreed on it. But he came back right when you started feeling comfortable.
You know what it means when he comes back.
"You're not the better one, Peter. You're just older."
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Lets see, I still believe this is not Ben. Why would they tell us about the costume and the fate of Ben and Kaine so soon?