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When I first got back into comics in a big way, it wasn’t Green Lantern that did it.  It wasn’t even DC.
Nope, it was Spider-Man.  Specifically, the Clone Saga.  A time of huge controversy in the Spider-titles as what started as an interesting idea, got thrown wildly out of control by marketing excess.   By [...]

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 [...]

At least, that’s the way the rumour mill is heading at the moment…
From my point of view, its something I would be very excited about.   It’ll be no surprise that this character is where half of my domain name comes from.   For me, the big mistake in the clone saga was introducing the whole “one, [...]

Timestorm #2 saw Miguel O’Hara get his powers, and his origin is expanded on further here, whereby, after discovering his new powers, he quickly finds himself caught up in a battle against the new Scorpion 2099 with the original Spider-Man (who escapes from the Public Eye with embarassing ease).
The big problem is the reinvention of [...]

Several weeks late for some reason, but Timestorm finally showed up in my comic book shop this week.
Its so nice to see the 2099 universe back.  Well, sort of.  
This is a reboot of the 2099 universe, however it shares more similarity with the original than the reboot a few years back did.  Brian Reed [...]

Something that’s quickly become a series I’m really looking forward to is the 4-part Timestorm 2009-2099 miniseries Marvel will be releasing.
Revisiting the world of 2099, the solicit has events in 2009 causing the worlds of 2009 and 2099 to collide. Its something we’ve seen previously in the Spider-Man meets Spider-Man 2099 one-shot, but [...]

Spider-Man 2099 is one of my all-time favourite comic series. Written largely by Peter David, it follows Miguel O’Hara, one of the top research scientists at a corporation called Alchemax, as he is the victim of a lab accident which gives him powers and he becomes the Spider-Man of the year 2099.
While Spider-Man is [...]

The great thing about a controversial comic is you can always be guaranteed a few good parodies
Twinkies!
Must check and see if I can find any full-issue parodies. There were some good ones floating around out there for Civil War.

Loved the 2-page parody in this week’s Lying in the Gutters (first item, headed Brand New Art)

Marvel have just put this up.
Clear as mud really. Presumably Norman Osbourne is one of those who remembers that he used to know Peter’s identity. Harry doesn’t remember ever being the Goblin (so is he now in a similar situation to Norman’s pre-death stories?).
Spider-Man is an unlicensed, unregistered hero. So bin [...]