…I’m really enjoying Amazing Spider-Man these days, and I think it’s been pretty solid since Brand New Day first started. So when I mock a possible direction for the comic, I do it with affection. I’m sure no matter what happens, I’ll enjoy it as the creative team on the books is pretty damn strong.
Also, I realized that I was wrong about things ending badly the last time someone else took over the Spider-Man identity from Peter, because I posted an image of poor, dead Ben Reilly – but that wasn’t the last time someone took over the Spider-Man costume.
No, the last person to take over as Spider-Man when Peter retired temporarily was Mattie Franklin, who gained her spider-like powers during the Gathering storyline. Shortly after, she became the new Spider-Woman –
- and suffered through a number of increasingly bad costumes before her book was canceled.
She later showed up as a strung-out drug addict in Alias who was being used to manufacture a superhuman drug, and then showed up in The Loners.
And just a few weeks ago, she was sacrificed by the Kravens to bring Aloysha Kraven back to life as some kind of wolfy-lion type thing.
So…maybe it didn’t end so well, now that I think about it.
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