Amazing Spider-Man #
10
Featuring : Superior Spider-Man
Part 2: Superior Force
This issue begins in the Ultimate Universe, Earth 1610,
where Miles and Jessica Drew of that world were last attacked by Lady Verna and
her three hounds. Miles is about to die when Assassin Spider-Man, Spider-Punk
and Superior Spidey appear to save him. The three save Miles and Jessica and escape, leaving an
extremely pissed Lady Verna behind with her dead pets.

Old Man jacket Spidey informs the group that they have
detected another group of Spider-Men, also gathering, and suggests that they divide
into three teams to find the other group. Peter ( our Peter) however, does not
allow Gwen to come along. Old Man Spidey also does not allow Cindy to come along for yet unknown reasons. Silk
however, secretly follows anyway, against instructions.
The main team ( Peter, jacket spidey, Spider-UK, Mayday,
Kaine, Miguel, Spider-Woman (Jess Drew) and Spider-Ham) finds Spider-Ock’s
team. Ock is not impressed by their presence stating that they have cause their
reading levels to go off the charts, nullifying his cloaking device he has been
working on to hide from the inheritors.
He notes that Kaine and Silk have abnormally high reading
levels that will certainly attract the inheritors. Old Man Spidey explains that
they are special spider totems called The
Other, and The Bride respectively. Obviously, Old man Jacket Spidey is not impressed that Silk has sneaked through
the portal, and our Spider-Man is shocked to see a physical version of the
Superior Spider-Man beside him, still alive. Old Man Spidey also notes that his
readings tell him that Superior Spider-Man is from 616. When questioned, Peter
explains that Ock is from the past who got shoved into the future at one point.
While everyone is taking this in, Miguel looks around and realizes that Ock was
shoved into his future, forward to the year 2099 where they currently are.
Just then, Daemos comes through the portal. Fortunately,
Superior Spider-Man has been planning for his arrival and instructs his team to
do as they have practiced. In the midst of battle, Cyborg Spider-Man is killed.
Together, and with the help of Spider-UK’s team, they manage to kill Daemos.
While these inheritors usually crumble when killed, Ock used 2099 tech to
design a weapon that will prevent such crumbling of the body so they can study
the body. Six armed Spidey and Lady Spider volunteer to help with the
autopsy as they are specialists.
The Spiders are torn over whether or not it was right to
have killed Daemos. Mayday however is not among them, wishing that it was her
hand instead of Ock’s that delivered the killing blow. Ock’s readings however
note that Kaine was the one who delivered the most damage to Daemos.
Ock also points out that Silk is the source of all the
problems and wants to get rid of her. At this point, Old Man Spidey takes
charge warning Ock to stay away from Silk. He states that while the rest of
them are fumbling in the dark, he is the only one who knows what is going on
here. Before he can finish his sentence however, he is killed by another
Daemos, who has just entered the portal again, along with the twin inheritors.
This time, Assassin Spider-Man is killed in battle and the
other Spiders scramble. The Superior Spider-Man is feeling less Superior after
feeling dumbfounded as to how this other Daemos has appeared. Kaine, Ben, and
Ultimate Jessica Drew (All clones) decide to go into the portal where Daemos
came from to figure out how to stop the inheritors from cloning themselves.
All the other Spider-Men also flee into different portals (
I’m not sure where they came from). Before our Peter leaves however, he is called
by a dying Old Man Spidey, who turns out to be Ezekiel, from a world where
Peter was killed by Morlun and Ezekiel got a Jacket costume made to carry on
the work of Spider-Man.
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The inheritor twins
chase after Silk, and Daemos goes to retrieve his old body, now in the hands of
Spider-Man 2099. The rest eventually regroup back at the safe zone. While the
Spider-Men are filling those who stayed behind on what had happened, Superior
Spider-Man takes leadership instructing them to stop talking, stating that he
is now in charge.
At this, our Spider-Man’s spider sense starts tingling!
Thoughts
This issue, focused a little too much on the Superior
Spider-Man for an Amazing Spider-Man book. Peter barely contributed to this issue at all.
As a Spider-Verse book however, I would have rated this much
higher than the actual Spider-Verse #1 issue which was really quite boring.
While some people may be growing tired with Silk and her
character, I found her to be quite amusing, carrying a very feminist vibe along
with her character, wanting to do whatever she wants, refusing to be protected.
Daemos’ clone was not at all expected as was the quick death
of Assasin Spider-Man, which really got no acknowledgement at all from the
other Spiders considering the build up to his character from the Superior
Spider-Man books. Even Cyborg Spider-Man’s death was more noticed.
I was probably most disappointed that Old Man Jacket
Spider-Man turned out to be Ezekiel and not the actual Jacket Spider-Man from Amazing
Spider-Man # 500 as I first thought. Nonetheless, this proves to be quite a twist adding more
mysticism and superstition to the whole Spider-Man origin. I for one was never
a fan of Ezekiel’s back story about the origin of Spider-Man, much preferring
the traditional radioactive spider bite coincidence. Nevertheless, it appears
that Ezekiel’s Spider-Man origin has been revisited in full force this time, quite
likely to change the origin for real now.
It was great however to see that Kaine as the special one
who has embraced the Other gained
much attention and is now even among the three most important spiders!
Finally, I have to point out that mixing up earth-610 and
1610, was a really bad error that threw me off completely in my AmazingSpider-Man # 9 review. Having seen so many alternate Spider-Man, I
automatically assumed that Lady Verna was chasing an alternate version of Miles
and Jessica clone Drew ( that’s what I’m calling her now).
Over all a great story leading to lots of mini series’ that
will be reviewed asap. Much apologies for these much outdated reviews. ( We are
running short on help on the site here * Hint*) Cheers!

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