{"id":9864,"date":"2021-07-26T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=9864"},"modified":"2020-06-24T12:46:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T16:46:56","slug":"redemption-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2021\/07\/26\/redemption-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Redemption 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Who looked at this cover and thought \u201cYeah, I\u2019m slappin\u2019 \u2018Burning Bright!\u2019 across the top. That\u2019s totally necessary.\u201d Cover copy is almost always terrible, but sometimes it\u2019s just pointless.
Anyway, after flashing back to his \u201cbirth,\u201d Kaine carries a guy out of the diner he just blew up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I don\u2019t get it, either, Kaine, but he tells the kid he\u2019s going in to die with them and internal monologues about how that fire was only meant for our 3 principle characters as he finds Janine & Ben in the burning wreckage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A 2nd explosion rocks what\u2019s left of the diner, and the kid outside says no one could\u2019ve made it out of that. But Kaine totally took Ben & Janine out, and ran them up a nearby building onto the roof. He puts them down and tells them to go find \u201cwhat shreds of happiness\u201d they can. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As Ben & Kaine\u2019s fight starts back up yet again, Ben tells Kaine that turning himself in is the only way to find the peace he\u2019s searching for, but it\u2019s Janine who takes his words to heart. Meanwhile, down on the ground, a random detective who \u201cwas at the Parker trial\u201d recognizes Kaine up on the roof, and calls in all the backup he can get. Kaine\u2019s ranting about how all he wants is death when some cops burst onto the roof, so\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kaine hops up on a billboard and yells about the terrible things he\u2019ll do the the cop in his hands to get the others to shoot him. Janine first tells Ben they have to run, but then they both realize what has to be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ben takes Kaine down into a nearby alley, thinking about how Janine\u2019s resolve drove him to act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that\u2019s weird. Kaine watches as Ben tells Janine they have to go, but she says she\u2019s tired of running, and that his speech about finding peace resonated with her, and she wants that peace for herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As long as he lives may not be as long as he thinks. You really have to wonder where Peter was in all this. I know it\u2019s not his story, and I certainly see this worked better without him, but\u2026 he\u2019s around, and as much a part of Ben & Kaine\u2019s story as they are. At any rate, a reasonable follow-up to Lost Years, in the end. As much an ending as you could get in a superhero comic, I guess. This is the end for Janine, at least, who never appeared in another comic. The same obviously can\u2019t be said for Ben, but also not for Kaine, as you might expect. But I don\u2019t think he appears in another comic I own. Decades later, he would be revealed to still be alive, go through various shenanigans, become the new Tarantula for a second, then get his cellular degeneration fixed and become a new The Scarlet Spider, a more brutal version of Spider-Man living in Dallas, TX. I dunno, man, I didn\u2019t touch any of that nonsense, so this is effectively his exit from the blog. So long, dumby!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Who looked at this cover and thought \u201cYeah, I\u2019m slappin\u2019 \u2018Burning Bright!\u2019 across the top. That\u2019s totally necessary.\u201d Cover copy is almost always terrible, but sometimes it\u2019s just pointless.Anyway, after flashing back…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[455,191,332,125,488,213,943],"class_list":["post-9864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1990s","tag-ben-reilly","tag-bob-mcleod","tag-christie-scheele","tag-jm-dematteis","tag-kaine","tag-mike-zeck","tag-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9876,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9864\/revisions\/9876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}