Written by Dan Slott
Penciled by Adam Kubert
Covers by Adam Kubert, Justin Ponsor
Release Date(s):
Issue 1: Jun 3, 2015
Issue 2: Jul 8, 2015
Issue 3: Aug 15, 2015
Issue 4: Aug 19, 2015
Issue 5: Sep 9, 2015
Written by Dan Slott and pencilled by Adam Kubert, this entire series takes place in Battleworld during Secret Wars. Peter is semi-retired and trying to keep his past quiet since it turns out he and Mary Jane's daughter Annie is a mutant who inherited her dad's spider powers at birth. Also as luck would have it, just after a super scary bad guy named Regent has killed most of the Avengers, there's a prison break at Rykers, and Pete makes it back to the apartment just in time to find Venom on the couch with Annie and MJ.
Regent gets word that the Avengers are on the way to help, and fights them using all the X-Men's powers whom he's presumably already killed. As he summarily defeats them one by one, Pete runs away to go after Venom. He corners him in a burning apartment building and for the first time (in this timeline anyway) allows a villain to die. As he and Annie later happily walk down the street together, the Vulture flies overhead with a stolen purse and Pete just watches him fly away.
Years pass, and as Pete and MJ walk their daughter to her first day of school, Shocker, Rhino, and Boomerang fight Demolition on Regent's behalf outside the school front door. Mockingbird and Prowler monitor it secretly for S.H.I.E.L.D. and are ordered to stand down. As Pete goes into the Bugle to turn in some pics of the earlier melee, he finds out a Regent team is on the way to confront the Power Pack at Annie's school so he and MJ book it over there but end up blowing Spider-man's secret cover. Defeated, Regent deploys the Sinister Six to dispose of SpiderMan, and Pete at the apartment decides it's time to one again break out the classic black Spider-Man suit.
Needing to buy some inhibitor chips to build tech to mask Annie's powers, Spidey is ambushed at the tinkerers workshop by Doc Ock. He essentially mutilates him, scaring the Six into realizing this isn't your father's Spider-man, but revealing to Kraven he's got a kid at the school he's trying to
protect. Regent orders all children be scanned and while the Parkers make it through thanks to the inhibitors, one mutant child isn't as lucky. As he's being detained, Pete can't sit idly by so he ends up engaging the Sinister Six.
Mockingbird and Prowler grab MJ and Annie and take them to a SHIELD base for protection. While Spider-Man continues to fight, Sandman appears and mentions that his family is safe at a secret SHIELD location, however Spider-Man doesn't believe him, and his lenghty explanation allows both of them to be captured by Regent's forces. During SHIELD debriefing, MJ explains that Pete has used inhibitor chips to mask their powers in the past, which gives Hawkeye and what's left of the Avengers to put together a plan to defeat Regent. All they need is some of his DNA.
Regent reveals that his killing of every superhero in this particular realm and sapping their powers is so he can fight Doctor Doom, whom has figured out a way to rule all of the Secret War realm. Overhearing this, Sandman reveals that he's concealed one of Spot's teleportation holes inside himself and opens a portal into the SHELD HQ allowing the rebellion to come out and have a final showdown with Regent.
Mary Jane and Annie teleport into the lab and take out the scientists working on Regents behalf to keep him powered up, while Hawkeye fights him outside. Realizing that there's something going on with his powers in flux, he realizes he's being distracted and goes back to the lab. Meanwhile, Annie scales the stasis tubes to find her Dad, who breaks out and leaps on Regent, knocking him out the side of the building and plummeting some 30 stories to the ground.
Annie shows up and hits him with an "inhibitor arrow", disabling his armor. All three of the Parkers fight him and Peter tells him a terribly corny joke, distracting Regent and allowing himself to be incapacitated. He's put into cuffs and lead off to prison, telling them all that they've all essentially killed themselves now that there will be nobody to make a stand against Doom. Finally, we see the Parkers sitting and enjoying breakfast, talking about what all went on and how they basically introduced Annie's powers in epic fashion, and everything is great and right in the world. But oh what drama is about to unfold as the Secret Wars are about to launch. And Doctor Victor Von Doom will show the universe that he's certainly something to be reckoned with.
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