Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Art: David LaFuente
Colorist: Justin Ponsor
Letterer: VC’s Cory Petit

In the kitchen, May advises the boys to tone down their superhero activities for the time being in light of what happened to Kitty; they are getting a new principal in light of Suitress’ resignation, so in order to avoid suspicion at the hands of an unpredictable replacement, the “Spider-Friends” have to stay incognito for a while. As to Kitty’s whereabouts with Kenny, the group are still in the dark. Bobby doesn’t want to give up on her, and while Gwen reminds them that there’s a chance Kenny can make her come around, he isn’t so positive. May reminds them nicely that she’ll know if they suit up via online. Bobby suggests to Johnny they get jobs and Peter suggests Burger Frog because they’re always hiring. (more…)

Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Artist: David LaFuente
Colorist: Justin Ponsor
Letterer: VC’s Cory Petit

Picking up from last issue, Kenny assaults one of the FBI agents when he pressures Kitty to leave. THe other agents gang up on Kenny to subdue him. Johnny and Bobby debate whether to get involved despite their secret identities, but Pete takes Gwen side and tells them all to stay back. He then tells Kitty she has to go otherwise someone’s going to get hurt. Kitty consents, but still they pull their guns on her. She takes advantage of the situation, grabs Kenny, and phases through the floor with him in tow down into the sewer. She tells him what he did was amazing and that she never should have broken up with her. They kiss, then they run.

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Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Artist: David LaFuente
Ink: Wade Von Grawbadger
Color: Justin Ponsor
Letterer: VC’s Cory Petit

The Bombshells are back in foul-mouthed business in a big way, this time robbing a turned-over armored truck when Spider-Woman intercepts and engages them in battle. (more…)

Gauntlet Origins: Electro
Writing: Fred Van Lente
Art: Barry Kitson
Colorist: Jeromy Cox
Letterer: VC’s Joe Carmanga

THEN (a short time after a certain lineman gets electrocuted by a lightning strike). On rain covered night on the Goeth Bridge on the Jersey side, a Stark Industries delivery truck runs over something electric that drains the battery. Behind them, conveniently, a van pulls up.  The driver’s partner pulls a plasma rifle on the man getting out of the vehicle, dressed in a slicker, who’s offering to help. The driver himself warns him it’s a risk on account of the rash of thefts that’s occurred on this route over the past month. But before they can decide, the individual – Max Dillon aka Electro - takes off his glove and electrocutes him, telling them it’s been “six”, not four. He picks up the gun and fires at the driver. Max feels weakened as he always does after electrostatic discharge. (more…)

Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Art: Takeshi Miyazawa
Colorist: Justin Ponsor
Letterer: VC’s Cory Petit

Picking up from last issue, Rick Jones, with the help of Spider-Man, the Human Torch, and Iceman, slowly pieces together that he is the herald chosen by the Watcher artifacts…which does not make him any less freaked. (more…)

Vultures! Hybrid Clone Bratty Sister! An untold Reilly story!

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Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Art: Takeshi Miyazawa
Colorist: Justin Ponsor
Letterer: VC’s Cory Petit

Rick Jones as Savior??? May as team leader??? Iceman with icicles on his back??? New artist???
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Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Artist: David Lafuente
Colorist: Justin Ponsor
Letterer: VC’s Cory Petit

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Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Art: David Lafuente
Colorist: Justin Ponsor
Letterer: VC’s Cory Petit

Kitty Pryde’s mother argues with Midtown High’s principal via her cell as she walks in the house about expelling her daughter because she’s a mutant when she’s startled by how cold it is in the house. She finds Bobby Drake, aka Iceman, hiding down in the basement, begging for a place to stay.
Back on the Queensboro Bridge, Mysterio deactivates the Hulk hologram and prepares to deliver the killing blow to Spider-Man when the mysterious Hood ambushes him from nowhere. While he manages to overpower the caped figure, Spidey gets a second wind and reengages the criminal. However, Mysterio again gets the upper hand and again is upstaged by the Hood. This time, however, the vigilante’s kick deactivates the head disguiser on his collar and his face is revealed. In a panic, he unleashes a maelstrom of lights and explosions to cover his escape. Spidey catches him on the beam above, but the guy manages to teleport out. He tries to question the hooded figure as to who this is and whose side he/she is on. The interrogation is interrupted by Peter distracted by a piece of the villain’s costume on the ground, allowing the Hood to escape. Spidey’s suprised for the fourth time…with an attractive girl asking for his autograph. (more…)

Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Artist: David Lafuente
Colorist: Justin Ponsor
Letterer: JC’s Cory Petit (more…)

Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Artist: David Lafuente
Letter: VC’s Cory Petit
Colorist: Justin Ponsor (more…)

Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Penciller/Inker: David Lafuente
Colorist: Justin Ponsor
Letterer: VC’s Cory Petit

Picking it up from last issue, Peter, Gwen, and May discuss an exhausted Johnny Storm crashing at the Parker household. Meanwhile, across town, the mysterious assailant of Wilson Fisk reads about the coverage of the murder. Talking to a webcam, he proclaims that he no longer wants a piece of the underworld – he wants it all and  (more…)

From Spiders to Avengers
By Jason Marsh Larouche

From Patsy Walker to a teenage Peter Parker and now “Bucky-Cap,” artist Stuart Immonen has had an amazing run these past few years. Hot off the heels of his run on Ultimate Spider-Man, Stuart continues his streak with another book penned by Brian Michael Bendis…with an entirely different take on a certain red-and-blue-clad wall-crawler. (more…)

 Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Pencillers: Mark Bagley and Stuart Immonen
Inkers: Scott Hanna and Wade von Grawbadger
Colorist: Pete Pantazis and Justin Ponsor
Letterer: VC’s Cory Petit

Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Pencils: Stuart Immonen
Inks: Wade Von Grawbadger
Colorist: Justin Ponsor
Letterer: VC’s Cory Petit

PLOT:
The shockwave and debris of the explosion in SoHo knocks Spider-Woman off of her webline. The erupting energy vanishes in the cloud, leaving behind the destroyed Sanctum Sanctorum in its wake…and the incredible Hulk. Consumed with mindless rage, he spots Jessica and instantly starts to pursue her simply because she’s there. She tries to swing, but a thunder clap again causes her to lose her grip and she ricochets down the walls of an alley. The creature continues his violent assault, as Drew narrowly evades it by the skin of her teeth. With some webbing blinding him, Jessica manages to hide just as a military chopper spots the Hulk, assuming he’s responsible for the devastation of New York, and opens fire. The Hulk easily takes down the chopper with a few hurled cars and, losing interest in Spider-Woman, leaps away into the night. Jessica goes back to the Sanctum to try and find Peter. No luck. Kitty Pryde appears on the scene. For her it’s the first encounter with Spider-Woman, but for (more…)

Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Pencils: Stuart Immonen
Inks: Wade Von Grawbadger
Colorist: Justin Ponsor
Letterer: VC’s Cory Petit
PLOT: Kenny, Gwen, MJ, and Kitty make it to the roof of a nearby building and overlook the cataclysmic purple explosion in Soho caused by the destruction of the Sanctum Sanctorum. Mary Jane hits Kitty for presumably coaxing Peter into action as Spider-Man, which may have gotten him killed for all she knows. During the cat fight (no pun intended) Kitty screams out she loves Peter as much as MJ when the redhead tells her she’d never understand how much SHE loves him. Both calming down, MJ asks her to find him. Kitty phases back down the building.
TWO MONTHS AGO: In the Sanctorum, Doctor Strange shows Spidey around, assuring Wong that he can be trusted. Among the mystical artifacts he had inherited from his father, most valuable and the point of the Sanctum’s protection is the Orb of Acmantata, a doorway to the Dark Dimension. Wong points out the seal of the Ancient One (the weird skylight) protects it from outside forces, among other spells put in place. Stephen says it would take an act of God to break into the Sanctum.
PRESENT DAY. The Sanctum now destroyed, ungodly creatures from other worlds are unleashed just as Spider-Man and the Hulk (now attacking the building) arrive. Nightmare has taken hold of Doctor Strange’s apparently-dead body. He unleashes their worst imaginings and fears. On the Hulk, he sets loose all 300 lives he killed the last time he was in New York, thus attacking his guilty conscience. The Hulk attacks despite Peter’s protests, having fought Nightmare before. The demon sics demonized versions of Electro, Kraven, the Green Goblin, Sandman and Doc Ock, all of whom ten times as powerful. Hulk is driven mad by the onslaught of the zombie-like beings who claim he killed them. Peter, unconscious, wakes up in a pseudo-60s like setting with Aunt May and Uncle Ben, who suddenly warp into cursing walking corpses. He wakes up, and (more…)

Keaton’s Spider-Sense
By Jason Marsh Larouche

With the second season of The Spectacular Spider-Man underway, voice actor Josh Keaton sheds light on this year, where the show is going, and how the character has impacted his life.

Since the mid-sixties, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko’s creation has been adapted for animation several times. The versions that stand out most prominently are the original ’66 series, NBC’s Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, and Fox’s Spider-Man: The Animated Series. However, what made The Spectacular Spider-Man last year stand out from the rest was that the writers had taken the character directly back to the beginning: high school. Keaton sees the Lee-Ditko stories – those of a high school kid who, by accident, gains spider-like abilities and must suddenly juggle a semblance of a normal life with out-of-the-ordinary criminals like The Green Goblin or Doctor Octopus - easily translatable because of the timelessness of those tales. (more…)

Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Artist: Stuart Immonen
Inker: Wade Von Grawbadger
Colorist: Justin Ponsor
Letterer: VC’s Cory Petit

J. Jonah Jameson, clearly shaken from the onslaught of Magneto’s tidal wave, walks through the busy newsroom. Robbie stops him to see if he’s all right. Jameson tells him he witnessed Spider-Man selflessly diving in after that woman and other drowning citizens with little regard for his own safety…and realizes he’s been wrong about him all along. Now convinced that Robbie was right about the wall-crawler, and sits at the nearest computer and starts to type out a complete retraction of his anti-Spider-Man claims and full endorsement of who he sees now as a true hero.
In Queens, Spider-Woman swings Aunt May away from the police precinct and drops her off at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge.  She manages to avoid the awkward questioning on May’s part as to why Jessica referred to her as “Aunt May”, but listened to May in regards to finding Peter.
Elsewhere, Spider-Man tries to reason (more…)