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FP (felinephoenix) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-30 11:33:00

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char: mary jane watson, char: spider-girl/may parker, char: spider-man/peter parker, creator: ron frenz, creator: tom defalco, publisher: marvel comics, title: spider-girl

Spectacular Spider-Girl: More Surprises!
BIG spoilers from the latest issue of Spectacular Spider-Girl/Amazing Spider-Man Family. (ASMF is 55 pages in total, the SSG segment is 23, I counted!) DON'T click the link if you don't want to know, folks, I cannot stress that enough.

Sadly, I couldn't include more of the newest "Parker", because I think I already love her, but I figured people would want to see this more...

A couple questions:

1. WHAT?!

2. Ben has a grave? (Since he turned to clone dust, I assumed he couldn't be buried.)

3. If Gwen isn't who she says she is (and I assume she's not, because Ben already has a child in MC2) then just what is she? Another Gwen clone? ~~A genderflipped clone of Reilly Tyne? With bleached hair? WHAT, it worked in Ultimate Spider-Man!~~

4. No, I'm not telling you how the issue ends. And yes, I know that's not a question.

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ashtoreth
2009-04-30 11:30 pm UTC (link)

Ben had a funeral gathering at the home...I assumed he had a plaque put on the ground. Some people do that. It may not have been common knowledge that there was no body. Peter would rather people didn't ask questions, I'm sure.

The obvious conclusion is that she's a Gwen clone who got woken up along with April when she escaped, or because a remote mechanism was activated somewhere. April might have inside information on her.

The interesting thing is that she's mimicking some of what Reilly Tyne's story might be (and could have been--I always wondered if they got so happy they married despite not having legal identities). Reilly's mother split up with Ben before their child was born.

The letters is an another thing. In Loeb's Spiderman Blue Peter writes Gwen a letter even though she's dead. Ben thought his girlfriend died the way Gwen did...maybe he started writing those letters again, to deal with the double grief. Maybe somehow Gwen Reilly found them and, desperate for place and identity, she took on this person who was so deeply loved. The illusion would be comforting.

I am hoping against hope that her mimicry of part of Reilly's story means that she has some knowledge, like that Ben's girl had a child. Also hoping that this means the Parkers finally decide to do some investigating and actually find the real child. :P

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Why don't I have a Darkdevil icon? Oh well, next best thing.

felinephoenix
2009-04-30 11:38 pm UTC (link)

I hadn't considered the possibility that April might have some inside info on her, that's interesting. It would explain that look on her face as she's listening (although, uh, just being annoyed in general would too).

As for Ben and Janine Godbe/Elizabeth Tyne, the fact that they pretended to be a married couple while on the run (and did this for, it's hinted, years) indicates to me that, yes, they probably would have married under more normal circumstances. It would make sense if they did, just to keep up the charade... (Take THAT, Quesada, even Ben Reilly wanted to get hitched.)

AND OH GOD ME TOO. Of course, there's always the possibility the Parkers won't have to investigate. I imagine Darkdevil - and, hell, Kaine for that matter - won't be pleased to find out there's someone wandering around pretending to be Ben's child.

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