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| The Clone Conspiracy #1 |
We came back once again as the
Amazing Spider-Man has returned with a brand-new saga, written by
Dan Slott (
Superior Spider-Man,
The Thing) who continues an ongoing tale of
Peter Parker with artist
Jim Cheung (
Avengers – The Children's Crusade,
New Avengers – Illuminati). This time he brings the
Spider-Man event '
Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy'. The comic opens up in a graveyard and we see
Peter telling himself that everything he’s ever defended, every foe he has ever defeated, there is one that he cannot defeat and that is the fact that everybody dies and today is no different because they are all at a funeral of
John Jonah Jameson, Sr.
During this time
Peter also manages to catch up on everybody else that he has lost.
Gwen Stacy,
Uncle Ben and many other people important to him and made him what he is today. What is really great about this is the fact that
Peter just feels terrible because
Aunt May just lost the second husband and he was there all along but couldn’t do anything to help at all. He is carrying this huge burden while
May was crying in his arms.
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| The Burden of Death |
J. Jonah Jameson however decides to be very vocal about it. During the funeral he attacks
Peter with words and what he said did no actual harm to hi but he blamed
Peter for all of this. Because he was the one who told them that they should take this new experimental cure that was supposed to save
Jameson, Sr. and now his son is blaming
Peter for his demise. After everyone leaves,
Peter was the last man standing there at the graveyard and he was quiet, eluded in his own thoughts.
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| The Burden of Failure |
Then we see
Anna Maria walks up to him and she wants to talk because she knows who he is. She knows that he is still
Spider-Man. So, the two are going to stroll through the graveyard and have a pretty good conversation about everything that’s going on. Following their talk we are cut to
Edmond,
Oklahoma with
Peter and
Anna and they are knocking on the door of a house that belonged to former
Parker Industries employee
Jerry Salteres, who was injured in an accident at a
Parker Industries plant. As
Emma Salteres opens the door,
Peter asks her how her husband
Jerry and son
Leo are doing. But the moment he starts talking about
Jerry,
Emma gets frightened.
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| The story of New U Technologies |
She said, she cannot talk about him or his condition which obviously gets
Anna Marie and
Peter very suspicious. In the course of the conversation, we find that
Jerry didn’t take his medicine when the family went camping and the mom wanted to go back but he insisted that he’d be fine for the weekend without these pills. Now what exactly did these pills do? Because next we see
Peter actually tinkered around with a gadget that reveals that he had cellular degradation that was going on and it was very rapid. So they are all currently concerned and every clue points to
New U.
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| Jerry's Story |
Then the story transited over to
California,
San Francisco to the
New U Headquarters where we see
Peter is on the prowl as
Spider-Man. He is going to investigate what is exactly happening and we see
Spidey even has a few new gadgets at his disposal, such as acid webbing so that he can break into places a lot easier and get through vents. Now, while he is doing this we still see that
Anna Maria is actually investigating everything that is happening. She’s doing all the scientific research while
Peter is in the inside. She believes she’s finding some sort of answers but she is nowhere near a conclusion yet. Then as we switch back to
Peter, it shows that he had a plan if something like this ever happened. He stuck a
Spider-Tracer that is going to lead him to the exact location of
Jerry Salteres.
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| No Industrial Espionage |
As looking around inside, he actually finds a tube which is holding someone inside and this just so happens to be
Jerry but it’s not too long that
Peter Parker could take a moment to himself because we see that his old enemy
Miles Warren aka
The Jackal is here. Making the bet and quickest decision of his life,
Warren yells for security, which brings in the entire team of guards but
Rhino and
Electro also showed up, whom
Warren actually called for. However, the
Electro that appears alongside
Rhino is a female named
Francine Frye, who actually died at the hand of
Max Dillon; the original
Electro. Without wasting a single moment
Peter gets into subduing his opponents and we get a pretty decent action scene here.
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| Here Comes The Big Guns |
But the worst of it had yet to come as he gets distracted when he behold the first love of his life;
Gwen Stacy (died in the "
Death of the Stacys" storyline) apparently back from the dead standing right in front of him, wearing that familiar outfit we all know and in that moment of
Peter’s distraction, we see the situation turns into
Miles Warren’s favor as he sets of the formerly deceased
Doctor Otto Octavius (
Dying Wish) to apprehend
Spider-Man.
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| The Shocking Return |
Well, this is right where the first issue ends and by now it’s no secret that our most hated
Spider-Man nemesis
Jackal is back and so does his clones. It has me interested as it is written by
Dan Slott and its way better than what he’s been doing into the current
Amazing Spider-Man run for
Marvel which I’ve always dropped from reviewing. It was like stalking into the same mediocrity and that has just changed with
The Clone Conspiracy issue #1. The art of this book is absolutely awesome and it serves as a compliment to the writing of
Dan Slott. Even though I haven’y liked the “
Clone Saga” in the first place, I’m feeling more and more interested in this book’s continuation. This may turn out to be something actually well done and I recommend you this book for that.
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