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Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 10th 2023 at 10:58:13 AM
And Zeb Wells' ASM just keeps being worse and worse.
The Spider-Man Gang War: First Strike preview just dropped and Miles is mad that Peter ghosted him for six months. Of course Miles is mad at Peter.
God, I am so popping a bottle of champagne when Zeb Wells goes away.
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Nov 22nd 2023 at 5:42:24 AM
I'm of two minds about DNM's whole "the clones somehow have the originals' souls" thing.
On the one hand its silly if not ridiculous, it's downright cheap, and clearly a means of forcing emotional weight into a story that otherwise wouldn't have any. On the other hand, 99% of shock value deaths are exactly the same way, just in the opposite direction, DMN made a point of undoing several shock value deaths, and I've always found ridiculous ressurrections to be a general 1-1 exchange for ridiculous character deaths if they're specifically used to counter one another.
So, like, if stupid mad science technobabble lets them handwave away the new Billy and Martha Conners not just being Replacement Goldfish, Sure, Why Not?. Those characters shouldn't have died in the first place.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Nov 22nd 2023 at 10:07:36 AM
I can live with it, I thought it got pretty garbled when Ben came back though since he was killed and recloned a good few times and it caused 'soul corrupton' 'till it suddenly didn't matter anymore and they ignored it. (And it'd explain what he's like now perfectly, but nah)
Plus at least it gave us that all time classic from Gwen "Why aren't you with MJ? You totally would have picked her over me if I had lived"
Edited by Zarius on Nov 22nd 2023 at 10:47:47 AM

Conclusion of the Insomniac/616 crossover
The Spot realizes his power boost was all in his head, he brings both Peters back to 616 and takes off, Insomiac gets to see Aunt May work at FEAST, and decides he'd rather forget his entire trip here. Doctor Strange weaves a spell that supresses both Spider's memories, so Peter won't even remember any advise about winning back MJ.616 Peter then talks to Mayor Cage about setting up superhero support groups