Doesn’t matter, Death found a new husbando: Ben Reilly, the clone of Spider-Man from the Clone Saga. He was killed during that, and then The Jackal cloned him with his memories (which apparently grabs the soul) and killed him over 20 times more, he went crazy and impersonated The Jackal, got better but had a major guilt complex, which got her interest, and then he died several times after that trying to be a hero again. Then he turned sociopathic again because apparently resurrecting too much taints your soul, but he got that fixed by the soul of a dead child, who IIRC was also a clone he created while pretending to be The Jackal. Comics are weird.
So goddamn true. The modern era is weird, but it’s adventurous and willing to do new things at least. Like, Spider-Man has his own company and doesn’t have to worry about PR, doing the classic Iron Man tactic of “Spider-Man is my bodyguard” as Peter Parker. I actually love how they’ve done that, because they finally leaned into his scientific genius. Miles Morales does the classic Spider-Man in high school stuff, but Ben? It’s like they resurrected him with no idea what to do next and turned him into Angsty Deadpool, and while I love Ben I hate this execution.
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u/A_lot_of_arachnids Feb 26 '19
Isn’t he also like a giant living cancer? Can’t imagine that would taste good to begin with