Originally posted by H. S. 6No. That'd be wrong and force me to rob my local comic provider. 🙂
Oh. I thought you were saying the comics are sold for like $15 in New York. 😛
Originally posted by doctorstrongbadThat hope and that hope alone is what's keeping me sane for the moment. ✅
Now that would be interesting.
All the clones are awesome, I think. Each one pays homage to some 616 character.
Tarantula (the official name given to the 6 armed clone by Bendis) is awesome. The symbol on his costume is near identical to the original Tarantula in 616, save for some slight alterations and the fact that it's white instead of black. Also, I like how he's hairy and has "bug eyes" and fangs like a tarantula.
For those who don't know what the original Tarantula looked like, here's a pic of him with two of his goons:
Jessica Drew is pure homage to two of the many Spider-Women in 616, one being the first Spider-Woman, who's also named Jessica Drew and the second Spider-Woman, named Julia Carpenter. In 616, Julia's costume was the base for the appearance that the Venom Symbiote originally took when it first bonded to Peter Parker during the Secret War (Peter was thinking about how much he liked her costume when he came into contact with the Symbiote and the alien morphed into a male version of Spider-Woman's costume). So its only natural for the Ultimate version of Spider-Woman to have a costume resembling the black costume.
"Kaine", or the scarred clone, is homage to two characters: Ben Reilly of the 616 universe and Kaine of the 616 universe. The costume that this clone uses in the Ultimate comics is essentially a torn up and stitched together version of 616 Ben's costume. And the scarring is taken directly from 616 Kaine, who suffered from cell degeneration (though the scarring looks totally different between the two characters, it appears to be the same concept for each). Even something so much as the role of the character is homage to the 616 Kaine. Kaine was an antagonist for most of his comic book existence, and the Ultimate version of the character seems pretty antagonistic to me.
616 Ben Reilly's Spider-man costume:
Scorpion, while his origin is totally different as well as his "secret identity" being in no way the same, the costume is pretty much a much more advanced version of earlier costumes the Scorpion had in 616.
Originally posted by 8urs
The scorpion and scarred clone are too unstable (mentally) for me to like them. One is obsessed with MJ and the other one just freaks out and overreacts to everything. Spiderwoman and the Tarantula are cool though and I want them to hang around for a while.
How many clones are there going to be?
I think that there might be a cone of Peter that hasn't been introduced yet! Reason being, when Ben Reilly is first talking to Jessica Drew (spider-woman) he tells her that she is phase 5 in a project to process a clone of Peter Parker and there is only 4 Peter clones so far! What do you guys think???
Originally posted by symbiosis
I think that there might be a cone of Peter that hasn't been introduced yet! Reason being, when Ben Reilly is first talking to Jessica Drew (spider-woman) he tells her that she is phase 5 in a project to process a clone of Peter Parker and there is only 4 Peter clones so far! What do you guys think???
That does make sense. We will have to wait to see if its true.
