So, an update on the Ben Reilly rumours doing the rounds. It looks like its definitely happening, at least in one form.
Bleedingcool.com has the solicit (via SuperPouvoir) for Spider-Man: The Clone Saga. A 6 issue mini series which will tell the Clone Saga in the way it was originally intended.
Now this should make for interesting reading. For anyone who’s a fan of the Clone Saga, (or is just interested in what actually happened to cause it to go wildly wrong), I can’t recommend the Life of Reilly column enough. Its a long read, but breaks the whole saga down and gives detailed accounts from the various people involved at the time as to what actually happened.
Going from what was said in Life of Reilly, I’m presuming this series will show the original “out” (which wasn’t too different to what actually happened) in that it would’ve been revealed that Seward Trainer had faked the test results that proved Ben was the real Peter Parker (although I forget who he was working for. Must re-read Life of Reilly myself). It’ll be very interesting to see this bit of Spider-Man history addressed and its a great idea to give the original creators a chance to revisit the story and tell their version of it.
As an amusing aside, given the Bleeding Cool article references both One More Day and the 101 Ways to End the Clone Saga one-shot, its worth pointing out that one of the original ideas touted to resolve the Clone Saga was to reveal that Mephisto had been behind it. Amusingly this idea was rejected as the writers felt it wasn’t appropriate for Spider-Man, and that it should be a more grounded explanation, rather than a mystical one.
I’m looking forward to this a lot.
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