Quick spoilers for Superior Spider-Man # 23 by Dan Slott, Christos Gage. Humberto Ramos, Vic Olazaba, Ed Delgado and more.
Before the big ending, let's zip through the various developments in this book, which I'm starting to read once again, mostly because they should be planting the seeds for Parker's return pretty soon and I want to see Slotto's downfall. Last issue ended with Slotto successfully taking down Venom/ Flash Thompson. This issue, he escapes!
Carlie Cooper has been kidnapped by the Green Goblin and his Goblin crew including Menace and Hobgoblin.
But that's just before Mary Jane Watson and Captain Watanabe (secretly The Wraith) receive critical information, a warning actually from the missing Carlie.
Aunt May has also recovered properly thanks to Peter Parker.
J. Jonah Jameson on the otherhand is working hand in hand with Alchemax together with Tiberius Stone AND Miguel O'Hara (aka Spider-Man 2099).
After a heated debate between Aunt May and Parker, the latter informs Flash Thompson who reached out to Peter that he can give him artificial legs. In the process of adding in the legs, Spider-Man separates the symbiote from Thompson.
The confusion inside the laboratory leads the symbiote to bond once again with the Superior Spider-Man...
... creating the SUPERIOR VENOM. Get your copies from your LCS (CO, Filbars, Comic Quest and Druid's Keep
It's a match we've all been waiting for SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN (Otto Octavius) squares off against SPIDER-MAN 2099 in Superior Spider-Man # 17 by Dan Slott and Ryan Stegman.
So what basically happens is that Miguel O'Hara (Spider-Man 2099) saves the day in Alchemax airspace after some topsy turvy time displacement occurs. He traces the source of all the trouble from inside the Alchemax tower where his 'father' Tyler Stone is slowly vanishing from the timestream. Once Miguel's 'dad' disappears so does he. In the present, Peter Parker is playing with the rest of the Horizon Labs for the annual Softball match. Max Modell is arrested for a dozen or so crimes he's apparently linked to including harboring fugitives like Morbius and the Lizard. We also get to meet the new major stockholders for Horizon. A familiar face in Spider-Man lore... Harry Osborn's former wife Liz Allen. Oh and remember when I said "Tiberius Stone was insignificant"? Well I was so wrong... The guy weaseled his way into getting Modell's job AND is revealed to be Miguel O' Hara's grandfather. So Slotto decides to give Stone a piece of his mind and follows them as the Superior Spider-Man. Back in the lab, the gang tries to use Grady's time machine to go back in time and get sufficient evidence to prove that Stone was behind some of the biggest disasters for the company. While operating the time machine, this occurs: Back in the outside world, Spider-Man catches up with the AlChem(ax) team and is about to lay down the hurt to Stone when the future Spider-Man bursts into the scene. Somethings I noticed. Normie knows something is wrong with Spider-Man... Maybe the first piece of Peter's return will start when the Osborn's make their appearance on SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN. Anyway here's to hoping that there's some good pay off at the end of this arc as opposed to simply doing fanservice. SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN # 17 is out now.
It's finally happened, Miguel O'Hara aka Spider-Man 2099 is set to meet Otto Octavius aka Superior Spider-Man in an upcoming story arc for the ongoing Superior Spider-Man.
Art by Olivier Coipel
During an interview with Comicbookresources, Dan Slott reveals that this meeting of two spiders will be entitled "Necessary Evil". The story sees Miguel O'Hara doing a Kyle Reese (from Terminator) going back to the past to change the future. Obviously Slott and his art partner for the art Ryan Stegman is keeping quiet with all the major plot points but they are stating that the seeds for Miguel O'Hara's trip to the past has been sown as early as the Amazing Spider-Man arc "Big Time". In fact Slott admits that he made a mistake by writing something that shouldn't be written in Big Time, which of course, gets edited out and replaced with the release of the tradepaperback. The writer also reveals that this is going to be important as it once again reshapes the Spider-Man legacy and the entire Marvel Universe.One last thing, there's a certain Osborn that'll be returning to the fold.
I guess at this point, its pretty much confirmed that the new Superior Spider-Man really won't be Peter Parker after Amazing Spider-Man # 700.
Honestly, I was already thinking of this a few weeks back ever since "Dying Wish" started in ASM # 698 but I did not want to think of this.
But since Marvel is already bitching how the supposed "biggest surprise" for 2012 has been leaked all over the Internet, might as well openly talk about it now.
