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Welcome back to 1994, I guess. Not that it\u2019s terribly exciting to be back here. Welcome back to the era of the angry edgelord Spider-Man and his dopey clone. To wit: There you have it. Enter a \u201cbold\u201d new era with this, the first solo adventure of \u201cthe clone.\u201d In his \u201cdynamic\u201d costume. Is it? Iiiiiis it? Also debuting this issue: The hideous new Spider-Man logo. It\u2019s the 90s, it\u2019s gotta be more edgy!! This logotype will adorn all the comics, the aforementioned cartoon and most mass market products for far too long. I wanna say until 2001 maybe? Like, crazy long. It\u2019s still Terry Kavanagh, Steven Butler, Randy Emberlin and Kevin Tinsley bringing you WEB in this period. For a couple of months, The Scarlet Spider will star in WEB and SM, while the real Spider-Man will star in ASM and TAC. As I mentioned elsewhere, not a bad idea, really. If you\u2019re going to insist on letting this idiot run around, any opportunity to not have to coordinate 4 monthly titles (and a quarterly) about a single character seems like one to take. I\u2019m gonna be reading these as they were published. So instead of seeing all 4 issues of \u201cThe Exile Returns\u201d (Wah wah), we\u2019ll look at part one, then ASM, then SM, then TAC, etc, cliffhangers and all. Let\u2019s get to it.
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Agreed, lame! I\u2019ve never been to The Museum of Natural History, do they legit have a random gigantic spider hanging around? A guard tells him they\u2019re closing and he\u2019s gotta leave, and as he does, he thinks about how he\u2019s going to skip town and recaps why he came back in the first place. That\u2019s when he meets\u2026 a fateful sweatshirt!
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Ben wonders if he could really stand by and not help, if he can really avoid power & responsibility. Then we check in with Venom, swinging around town. We\u2019re told he came back because of the attack on Ravencroft, to make sure Carnage didn\u2019t get out. Uh\u2026 ok. Hey, maybe we can pretend he hopped up to NY from Washington after that whole idiotic Archanis Project mess. Whatever, as Venom is a quasi-good guy now, he happens upon a car chase with gun fire between cops and robbers and does his \u201cbrutal justice\u201d thing.
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A high speed chase during rush hour in New York sounds slightly less plausible than a guy in an alien costume absorbing bullets into his gut. Day saved (?) Venom swings away, thinking maybe it\u2019s time to put his ghosts to rest, and then we head over to the hospital Aunt May is in, where she has a classic visitor. Not that I recognize her at all on this page without being told who she is. 
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And judging by the dialogue, maybe I wasn\u2019t the only one. Ben is watching all this through the window. He has suddenly decided he can\u2019t leave Aunt May in this condition. I suppose?
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He goes to the warehouse where Peter caught Uncle Ben\u2019s killer to flashback to Peter\u2019s origin, because hey, why not, right? Meanwhile, Venom is on a similar kick, revisiting the church where Eddie Brock & the alien bonded.
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I believe that is the random and hilarious debut of new Daily Bugle reporter Ken Ellis. How long was he sitting there??? Whatever, Ben is now at The Brooklyn Bridge to flashback to Gwen\u2019s death (Bridge controversy rages on) when guess what? You\u2019ll never guess. He sees a girl up on the same ledge Gwen fell off of, and she\u2019s about to jump! I KNOW! What are the odds???
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Ben saves her and drops her off an at ER before vanishing on them on account of, you know, not being a real person. And then, as the sun comes up, he has little brood about the whole situation.
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And there he goes! The Scarlet Spider! The Dr. Rocket to Spider-Man\u2019s Dr. Pepper. The Transmorphers to his Transformers. The DiGorno to his delivery. Speaking of Spider-Man, we\u2019ll see how he\u2019s doing next post. Spoilers: still acting like a dumb baby.
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Marvel used to publish a year-in-review magazine every year which would contain often surprisingly savage articles making fun of the comics they sold you in the preceding 12 months. I believe it was in one of those that I saw someone ask if the pouches on his ankles are where The Scarlet Spider keeps his Fruit Rollups. It might\u2019ve been a Wizard magazine. At any rate, 25+ years later, it\u2019s still the first thing I think when I see him.
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