{"id":5129,"date":"2020-06-11T00:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T04:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=5129"},"modified":"2019-07-07T12:14:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T16:14:43","slug":"sm-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2020\/06\/11\/sm-54\/","title":{"rendered":"SM 54"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back with more clone action. Presumably. Prior to any action, we find this low budget version of our hero headed to The Daily Bugle hoping to harass Ken Ellis for naming him \u201cThe Scarlet Spider.\u201d He just casually breaks into the building and finds it empty (late at night), and thinks back to \u201chis\u201d memories of the old days for a minute until\u2026
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He says he may have his lawyers contact The Bugle about calling him \u201cThe Scarlet Spider\u201d and swings away. As far as Spidey\/JJJ banter goes, it\u2019s like a 2\/10, but Ben is flying high, feeling good about revisiting the past even if it\u2019s not his. And somehow, Kaine is watching. That guy is everywhere. Now over to The Grim Hunter, doing basically the same speech to his dead dad about what he\u2019s gonna do to Spider-Man he\u2019s done in every appearance. He runs off to go ambush his prey, still not knowing he\u2019s following the store brand copy, and his servant, Gregor, thinks that Kraven trusted him to care for his only son and he\u2019s failed them both. His only son. In a few years, a 2nd Kravinoff son will appear, and a decade after that, a daughter, too, but ok. Ben Reilly gets back to his place and that Gabrielle lady is there to flirt a second, and Kaine is still watching. Meanwhile\u2026
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What could this mean? What could be so important that it\u2019s invading all the Ben Reilly books even though it\u2019s a Spidey plot? Seems pretty obvious. We then follow Kaine as he beats up a bunch of dudes while monologuing about how pain is his only companion and blah blah blah, 90s. Then we\u2019re told Spider-Man is still knocked out on that rooftop, which makes no sense, and Ben is asleep in his apartment. And then, we\u2019re told, both Spider-Men have the same dream\u2026
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It\u2019s starting! The Honda Summer Sales Event! Oh, my mistake, it\u2019s \u201cthe degeneration.\u201d Ben calls his old pal Seward Trainer, who appears here for the first time, to ask if the degeneration could be starting already. Feel like they kinda tipped their hand by putting Kaine in there, but whatever. Trainer says Ben should\u2019ve stuck around to finish the testing, and he\u2019s coming to New York.
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So, for a second time in this issue alone, a Daily Bugle reporter who\u2019s known Spider-Man as long as he\u2019s been around is just like, \u201cDang, another spider guy, what were the odds? Nothing suspicious or interesting about that. I am accepting it at face value!\u201d I mean, right? Where are their reporter\u2019s instincts? Isn\u2019t it weird that a dude with the exact same powers as Spider-Man has shown up? That plus \u201cI feel like I\u2019ve known you all my life?\u201d I dunno, man. Anyway, it\u2019s fightin\u2019 time. Almost! We gotta cut away to this first:
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Uh-oh! Back at Betty\u2019s, Ben tries to explain to Vladimir that he\u2019s not the real Spider-Man, but Vlad\u2019s animal senses can\u2019t tell the difference, and he assumes Spider-Man has changed clothes in a pathetic attempt to hide from him. Give Spider-Man a little credit, sir, that would be a terrible disguise. But he insists Ben is Spider-Man and Ben, of course, has no idea who this is, so they finally get to it.
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They go around awhile, Vladimir finally namedropping his dad so Ben can get an idea of what\u2019s going on, but neither of them really scores any big hits. Ben says Vlad is insane.
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So much for that, I guess. Weird how little of this I remember. I remember the Spider-Man issues pretty well, but not the Scarlet Spider ones. Speaking of, back to the original next post.
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