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

The Chameleon, in the guise of Peter Parker, rides back to Forest Hills with MJ via cab from the Daily Bugle. He makes advances on her, which she initially doesn’t object to, but comes to her senses for Gwen’s sake. He notes “you girls are all the same”, causing MJ to tell the driver to let her out, leaving him to figure out where to find Peter’s house. (more…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

 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…)

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…)

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

Aunt May, brought in to the 103rd Precinct, is harshly interrogated by two NYPD detectives on alleged information that her nephew is secretly Spider-Man. Then, the precinct experiences a complete blackout. May’s instructed not to leave the interrogation room as they go to check it out, but May does so anyway when calamity and panic ensues. The entire building is deserted, save for one wannabe superheroine crying that it’s all gone. May heads outside and finds the entire city block leveled by a freighter vessel that was washed in by the massive tidal wave that rocked Manhattan Island. (more…)

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

Johnny Storm aka The Human Torch calls Peter in the middle of “quality time” with MJ for help in ditching the self-absorbed, attention-hungry pop star Brittany Amber Fox that he idiotically took out AGAIN after swearing off of her. Elsewhere, May presents a letter from Tony Stark to Midtown High’s vice-principal in order to explain why Gwen Stacy has miraculously returned from the dead and why he thinks May is the perfect foster parent. He informs her that the very fact that Iron Man, with connections to SHIELD, is acting on a single parent’s behalf , is very questionable, and that this is the type of craziness – with Spider-Man being at the top of it – is the reason Midtown is being threatened with closure. She swears she knows nothing about Spider-Man when she feels the vice-principal – well aware of the rumor that he is, in fact, a Midtown student – is leaning towards that.
Meanwhile, Peter phones Johnny’s cell and leaves him to fake surprise at the news that Doctor Doom is back and uses that excuse to ditch Brittany via “flame on.” (more…)

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

Plot:
Eddie’s back on the bench telling another passerby his story. Shift to yesterday. Peter Parker encounters the Gwen Stacy clone aka new Carnage in his room. She manages to morph her face to human and explains she had nowhere else to go and that it IS her. Simultaneously, Eddie rings the doorbell, which May answers. She pulls a gun on him which he wrestles away and turns it on her. Spider-Man surprises him and carries him off to the nearest roof, where Gwen follows. Eddie says he came for Gwen because he needed the Carnage symbiote to reactivate Venom within him. The creatures battle, and Venom absorbs the symbiote out of Gwen, becoming largers and more powerful. Iron Man and SHIELD arrive on the scene. Peter again offers Eddie help, but Venom rejects it and oozes down a drainpipe, part of his new abilities. Later at the Triskellion, after extensive tests, “Gwen” is given a clean bill of health, but Director Da (more…)