Written by Dan Slott
Pencils by Giuseppe Camuncoli
Cover by Alex Ross
Published Feb 22, 2017
Cover by Alex Ross
Published Feb 22, 2017
Ben Reilly has work to do. The last thing he needs is a fight with Doc Ock, who is still pretty mad about endangering his crush Anna Maria Marconi. He calls to one of the Miles Warren clones for help but like all the other clones, he melts. Throughout the incubator, the Admin, Jackal's apartment, everywhere - they all collapse until one doesn't. He realizes he's the real Miles and he's prepared to make the clone of Peter Parker himself pay for the abuse he's suffered. He dons his creepy green Jackal costume and plots his revenge.
Back at the lab, Spider-Man sends out the audible signal through all of his webware devices that will stop the carrion disease from progressing to the world's population. From New York to Paris, every smart device equipped with Parker Industries software emits the sound. Otto lashes out at Ben's device and smashes it, punishing him for ever hurting Anna. During their fight, Ben remembers the one unaltered Proto-clone and rushes to use it. Unaware Otto has rigged the device, he puts it on and is shocked unconscious. When he wakes he discovered the clone gone and Otto gone with it. With time of the essence, he takes the drugs to stabilize his decomposition. He takes the shirt off one of the dupes and takes off. Leaping from the window, he finds a motorist passing by. Stealing his watch to stop the disease, he takes his car as well.
Ben drives back to the replica he made of Pete's childhood home to gather money, ID's, passports, and everything else he'll need for a getaway and runs right into the new Jackal Miles Warren. He sets fire to a pile of meds, documents, and everything else Reilly needed. Enraged, he attacks him. He asks why Miles made him in the first place just to torture him. Miles tells him he gave him life and he just wasted it. Ben tells Miles he wasted the tech on of his obsession with Gwen Stacey and Peter Parker. He gets the upperhand on the Jackal, finally leaving him to die in the house which is now engulfed in flames. Jackal yells that it isn't fair. Ben yells out that life isn't fair. He punches out the firemen on the lawn and makes a run for it. Who he is - who he was... Nothing matters except for who he's gonna be now. And with that the issue comes to an end.
I enjoy Peter Parker's and Miles Morales' Spider-Men but at some point here I'm gonna have to draw the line. There was a time where this book could stand on it's own. Now you're gonna have to read 15 books to keep up with it. I never thought I'd say this, but for once they could take a page from DC. Batman is a book that very rarely crosses over where it seems like this book - a flagship book can hardly stand on it's own. Relying on the "Spider-Verse" is getting a little ridiculous. Gwen Stacey is a Spider-person now? Silk? Doc Ock? Aunt May?! I'll give this one a 7/10 for good story but hopefully they'll cut down on all the extra books. Us comic book kids love to read but at some point, we're gonna hit the spider wall.
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