I realize there's people out there very fond of this story and Ben Reilly, but as a kid I absolutely despised this crap and still do today. I found it to be a miserable embarrassment to Spider-Man and to Marvel Comics, the bottom of the barrel in terms of '90s gimmick storytelling, trying to run Peter and MJ out of the books by calling him a clone and tossing him away so California Dreams Peter with the blond hair could take over. I thought it was wrongheaded from the start and dreadfully executed from start to finish. Bob Harras, Tom DeFalco - hacks. J.M. DeMatteis - well, I don't care about Judas Traveller, and the rest may have been well-intentioned but when the premise is shit (OMFG WHICH SPIDEY IS A CLONE???), there's only so much you can do. Frankly, I found the resurrection of Norman and making him be the one behind it all to be the most "real Spidey" thing in the entire bloated storyline.