The (Formerly) Superior Spider-Man

DoctorDoom

I just caught up on it. I loved it for the most part. And definitely glad Peter's back. But I have a few questions that I figured you guys could help me with:

1. I may not have fully understood it, but how is Peter back again? The real Peter, and not just his memory fragment?

2. How does Spidey get away with killing Massacre in cold blood? From what I saw at the end of Superior Spider-Man, he was taking responsibility for his actions as Octo-Parker (convo with Jay and Aunt May) and as Octo-Spidey (convo with Jonah). How the heck does that work. (To be fair, I only skimmed the first two issues of the new Amazing Spider-Man. I may have missed something)

3. I'm slightly disappointed that there wasn't a scene of Peter explain stuff to the Avengers. Does this scene occur in a later comic, or is it assumed to have happened. I also assume Spider-Man is no longer with the Avengers, regardless of any explanations.

4. Black Cat is totally going to return and kick Peter in the websacs, isn't she?

Thanks guys!

Mr_Cosmic

4. Yes...the current issues are dealing with that now.

fredzilla

Don't think about it too much. Let's just say it's magic and leave it at that.

Evening639

fredzilla said:

Don't think about it too much. Let's just say it's magic and leave it at that.

But if we say it's magic and try to leave it at that, Joe Quesada will just write a story explaining it poorly anyway.

Brack

3. Issue 2 of the new Amazing has Parker explaining everything to the Avengers. He's guest starring in the first issue of the new Captain America and the Mighty Avengers. Don't know if that means he'll be joining them.

4. Black Cat is not only back taking revenge on Spiderman, she's also causing trouble for two other heroes in a currently running mini-series.

DoctorDoom

Mr_Cosmic said:

4. Yes...the current issues are dealing with that now.

Thanks!

DoctorDoom

Brack said:

3. Issue 2 of the new Amazing has Parker explaining everything to the Avengers. He's guest starring in the first issue of the new Captain America and the Mighty Avengers. Don't know if that means he'll be joining them.

4. Black Cat is not only back taking revenge on Spiderman, she's also causing trouble for two other heroes in a currently running mini-series.

Awesome and awesome. Thanks !

I'm glad there's some collateral damage that he's addressing.

SolitaireRose

1) Peter wasn’t completely erased, and was locked away inside Doc Oc’s memories, working up to when Doc Oc switched minds…and Peter is able to grab his memories. With Doc Oc being defeated by Norman Osbourne, he realizes that Peter really IS the Superior Spider-Man and he cedes control to Peter in order to save the day. Ta-da!

2) This is a loose end they haven’t tied up yet. One thing about Dan Slott…you think he may have dropped the ball on something, but it usually surfaces later (much like how he put the first hint of Superior Spider-Man 100 issues before it occurred).

DoctorDoom

@SolitaireRose‌
1. So the Peter in Dock Ock's body was just a memory copy? Also, thank you.

So I will assume the Massacre thing will come into play at some point.

Hex

Brack said:

4. Black Cat is not only back taking revenge on Spiderman, she's also causing trouble for two other heroes in a currently running mini-series.

This is the only thing about the current run of Spidey that really bugs me (no pun intended). Sure, Cat is super pissed at Peter, but that causes her to become a power hungry big bad?!? I can see the need for revenge against Spider-man, but her ambition to become a crime lord is very out of character. I'm not buying it. I find it surprising coming from Slott.

I found her pairing with Typhoid Mary in the recent Hawkeye/Deadpool ironic, as that is who I found her behaviour was more in-line with.

SolitaireRose

Hex said:

Brack said:

4. Black Cat is not only back taking revenge on Spiderman, she's also causing trouble for two other heroes in a currently running mini-series.

This is the only thing about the current run of Spidey that really bugs me (no pun intended). Sure, Cat is super pissed at Peter, but that causes her to become a power hungry big bad?!? I can see the need for revenge against Spider-man, but her ambition to become a crime lord is very out of character. I'm not buying it. I find it surprising coming from Slott.

I found her pairing with Typhoid Mary in the recent Hawkeye/Deadpool ironic, as that is who I found her behaviour was more in-line with.

She's not just mad at Spidey, she lost EVERYTHING. Money, identity, safety, all of it. It only takes one bad day, according to Alan Moore and Jack Napier.

Brack

Also, Black Cat traditionally only cares about Spider-Man, not Parker. It makes no difference if he was Peter Parker or Otto Octavius at the time, it was Spider-Man who ruined her life.

DoctorDoom

So I've read 1-3. It's nice to see ramifications for everything Otto did.

Pete still has his company. And Pete explains stuff to the Avengers and Johnny Storm!

And I did like that Pete actually tried to explain things to Black Cat. I'm surprisingly not annoyed that she didn't initially care.

(Though she cared enough when Parker had to fake being Superior again)