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[Wendo]

I stopped reading comics a while back, so I was curious to find out how one of the storylines ended up. There was some sort of clone thing around 93-95, and the "clone" wore a blue t-shirt and was called "Ben", I think. But it turned out he wasn't the clone, and the real Spiderman was the clone!

So my question is, whatever happened to the clone/Ben?

 

[Outcast2004]

Ok to sum this up easily.... Ben was the clone all along. It was just mind games by Osborn. It eventually ended up with Ben dying an ironic death... being implaed by Goblins glider.

The stroy arc was so bad that it damned near killed the book.. and the company.

 

[Seth C]

I stopped reading comic books for almost 10 years because of that one story.

 

[Wendo]

Ok to sum this up easily.... Ben was the clone all along. It was just mind games by Osborn. It eventually ended up with Ben dying an ironic death... being implaed by Goblins glider.

The stroy arc was so bad that it damned near killed the book.. and the company.

Right on! Thanks, I've been wondering about it for years. I never thought the story was very good, but I was curious how they'd kill off the clone.

 

[Spike Spiegel]

A Brief Summary of the Spider-Clone Saga

 

[mattx5]

I stopped reading comic books period because of that story arc.

Now I just read graphic novels

 

[Wendo]

A Brief Summary of the Spider-Clone Saga

MAXIMUM CLONAGE OMEGA?

hahaha! Sweet Jeebus. That is a messed up "plot".

 

[AstroLad]

Maximum Clonage Dude!

Cowabunga!

 

[Dilbert]

If that summary used ibid one more time, I would be forced to physically destroy their webserver.

 

[Dujour]

The way the ended it was awesome, though. After he was impaled, his body deteriorated into ash or something and MJ lost the baby. They tried to allude that it was kidnapped, but it wasn't.

 

[BobbyRobby]

Anyone else a little scared about the brief mentions of the clone saga that have been occurring in the Marvel Knights Spider-Man book out now?

 

[Wendo]

Are comics in general any good these days? They seemed to kind of go downhill about 10 years ago or so. I know Batman doesn't seem as good. The "Bat-Family" is pretty insane, and there haven't been any really decent story arcs since Knightfall.

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

Are comics in general any good these days? They seemed to kind of go downhill about 10 years ago or so. I know Batman doesn't seem as good. The "Bat-Family" is pretty insane, and there haven't been any really decent story arcs since Knightfall.

comics are doing great nowadays.

really decent story arcs since Knightfall.[/

well now you lost me. oh wait, you're one those types of fans.......

once again i must say it though....
















































DC WINS! DC WINS!! DC WINS!!!

 

[Rorschach]

The way the ended it was awesome, though.

-1 Serafitia.

Also, I thought the first post was a joke post :|

[edit] Oops...I read Wendo as "Willco" and saw his avatar as Bruce Campbell...holly shit I need to get more sleep.

 

[Seth C]

-1 Serafitia.

Also, I thought the first post was a joke post :|

[edit] Oops...I read Wendo as "Willco" and saw his avatar as Bruce Campbell...holly shit I need to get more sleep.

Well I'm going to +2 Sera, just because.

 

[Dujour]

I don't know, Rors. Sure, it brought back yet another person that should've stayed dead, but the arch was over. The art rocked, Jr. doing the same character that his father did last... come on.

 

[Shinobi]

The way the ended it was awesome, though. After he was impaled, his body deteriorated into ash or something and MJ lost the baby. They tried to allude that it was kidnapped, but it wasn't.

Implied? They showed a panel of the kidnapping taking place!!

Well, they showed something anyway...suppose it could've been Norman's used Depends being taken to a dump in secret.

Anyway, I'm glad Goblin came back...he's one of Spidey's better villians.

 

[Rorschach]

I don't know, Rors. Sure, it brought back yet another person that should've stayed dead, but the arch was over. The art rocked, Jr. doing the same character that his father did last... come on.

Jr's art aside, I thought you were talking about the story arch. Especially since you didn't even mention the art ;b

They finally responded to the overwhelming hate for Ben by killing him off, but they do it by making a great comic book death worthless. They tried to fix the continuity by fucking it up, basically. The arc was pretty tacked on last minute (the idea was to make Ben the real Spidey and let Parker retire so he can live with his family) and you could tell. Even down to the tacked on May Parker lived question mark ending. Also, the way they made Goblin bite the dust again..oy vey.

Anyway, I'm glad Goblin came back...he's one of Spidey's better villians.

Uhm...he dies again...in the same arch!

They just brought him back to kill Ben and die again pretty much at the hands of Peter.

[edit] Oops...I read Wendo as "Willco" and saw his avatar as Bruce Campbell...holly shit I need to get more sleep.

Heh...I even spelled "holy" wrong. -_-

 

[Quadrophenic]

Whatever happened to Mary Jane's baby?

 

[Dujour]

Jr's art aside, I thought you were talking about the story arch. Especially since you didn't even mention the art ;b

They finally responded to the overwhelming hate for Ben by killing him off, but they do it by making a great comic book death worthless. They tried to fix the continuity by fucking it up, basically. The arc was pretty tacked on last minute (the idea was to make Ben the real Spidey and let Parker retire so he can live with his family) and you could tell. Even down to the tacked on May Parker lived question mark ending. Also, the way they made Goblin bite the dust again..oy vey.

He didn't die again, you fart. He explained that he had a healing factor or something like that. He was back in like two issues.

 

[Rorschach]

He didn't die again, you fart. He explained that he had a healing factor or something like that. He was back in like two issues.

For all intended purposes, he was dead. ;b

Spoiler

I was wrong, but no one will ever know! I stopped reading because of the clone saga. :|

 

[Shinobi]

Uhm...he dies again...in the same arch!

They just brought him back to kill Ben and die again pretty much at the hands of Peter.

Right, but he's returned twice since then (once from an institute of some sort). The implication being he's like The Joker now...you can't kill him, you can only hope to contain him.

As for MJ's baby, nobody knows. They've pretty much pretended that whole episode never occurred, including Aunt May's death/kidnapping/whatever (think they brought her back the year after the clonage nonsense wrapped up), and MJ's pregnancy. But would I be surprise if she shows up in ten years as Gobby's personally trained super slayer to take down Spidey? Nope.

 

[Shig]

40 years of Amazing Spider-Man issues on CD-ROM

I bought this the other day at Costco (it was 29.99 there), 11 CDs with more than 500 issues, ads and all. Nifty.

 

[DarienA]

Don't worry thanks to the retarded Gwen's kids storyline we've now been given another Goblin to be used somewhere down the line....

 

[DaveH]

I have a Spidey question:
Now that Pete's a teacher... no more spidey pictures for The Bugle?

 

[Tamanon]

What the FIZZUCK were they even thinking there? My god, that's a convoluted, annoying looking storyline. That would piss me off.

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

If that summary used ibid one more time, I would be forced to physically destroy their webserver.

my music appreciation teacher made us write a paper using that formatting style. ugh. why can't we just have one style (MLA would be nice) and be done with it? My wife's engineering formatting was confusing as hell (though you wouldn't think so ) and I had a hell of a time helping her with her papers.