yeah but they keep torturing Hank and won't let him just rebuild his life properly.
Agreed on everything, peak of Mongul’s career too, one of the few times the yellow bastard was a menace without the Warworld.
Doc Green was fun, I liked the rockstar, sociopath science man who freaked everyone out and eventually got rid of all his friends. One of the better tools to reset the status quo, shame once he succeeded in his good work they wrote him off (well I might add) to shill the chink.
Ewing's Joe Fixit was a piece of shit asshole (see him calling Thing a monster for daring to defend himself against the violent Green Hulk, who has repeatedly fucked over Thing multiple times including fucking up his honeymoon with Alicia as the most recent shit he's done to Thing) while prancing around like his shit doesn't stink and how he's the best alter ego in Bruce's head who runs everything. Even though Ewing's Fixit itself bore ZERO resemblance to the actual Mr Fixit personality, who was an obnoxious piece of shit who often had to be gangpressed into doing good and who was forever shitting on Banner and the Green Hulk persona and who wanted nothing more than to get rid of them if only he could and took glee whenever he could make his seizing control over their shared body, as traumatic as possible for Bruce due to Fixit being the type of asshole who drank Bruce's tears.
You are in the minority faggot.
Cates had drug problems before the car crash though. I think thats what really killed his career
To be fair, his writing was consistently strong throughout the Clone Saga, at least relative to most other writers. As the original editor (he eventually just went back to being a writer midway through) during the era, he claimed his original plan was: act 1, introduce Ben Reilly and stir up drama over who the real Peter was > act 2, 'confirm' that Ben was the real one, leading to Peter's retirement > act 3, reveal that Ben actually was the clone and bring back Peter as the one, true Spider-Man, with Ben getting his own spin-off. I do think this is revisionist history on his end because he claims he just happened to keep the plan a secret (why would you do that?) and nobody else who worked on it ever heard of such an outline.
Spider-Girl is very, very good but it sort of peters out when it gets to the Sci-Fi bullshit. I absolutely loved how he basically took every concept from Spidey and twisted it. So you have essentially a Peter Parker as a supporting character, which you think theyre gonna make him an incel but then they flip it on you AGAIN and make him talk it out with May. very clever, because it's thematic mirroring and subversion not to look smart, but to actually be smart and create a realistic nuance to characters. rather than him just being a subversion of Peter and a villain in order to sell the metaphor that "May aint like Peter yo" they create a realistic nerdy kid with rough edges and approach him like a real person
tbf no one was hitting their heaviest swings during the clone saga. Even JM Dematties
i think the idea's probably been flirted with a lot.
I like Daken better as well especially in Dark Avengers.
They've given him his own names in non-standard spin-offs and merchandise. Kid Arachnid and Spin are two (both, I think, from Spider-Man shows for children, Spidey and his friends or something).
pfffhaha imagine someone even trying to make this in 2024 without just making him Homelander. Zero chance
I had no idea. Spin is probably his best name.
Yeah, Jack O'Lantern rings a bell. Hobgoblin is an overlooked one. There's even a Hobgoblin 2099, but I think that might be for the 2099 section of Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions on the PS3. The Dark Avengers were cool. One of 'em was Venom/Dark Spider-Man, which may have been Mac Gargan (Scorpion), as the Venom Symbiote hopped around other hosts after Eddie Brock gave it up (sold it, I think). And yeah, it's a shame Jim Bennett left Marvel Comics. And, I'm not finding anything on that scary fucker who I thought was a one off Batman villain, though. Maybe he was from another comic series, but I can't think of anything but Batman. Oh, well.