Friday Night Fights: Clones, Robots, and Crossovers

I’m in a hurry tonight, what with new interfaces, new themes, and researching items for Christmas postings, right? So I needed something quick and painless…sort of. This may cause more pain that planned.

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Friday Night Fights

Ka-Pow Round 4

The Battlefield: Spider-Man: 101 Ways to End the Clone Saga

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The Combattants: Sentinel army vs. Spider-Man (Ben Reilly, no, Peter Parker…ah, even the writers didn’t know back then)

The Warm-Up

Go up to any die-hard Spider-Fan, and say the words “Clone Saga”. It’s kind of cute watching them curled up in a ball in the corner rocking back and forth for the first 15 minutes. Somewhere around hour 5, however, your conscience takes over and you have to remind them that with the Spider-Marriage gone, Harry alive and unmarried, and nobody knowing Peter’s alter ego anymore, anything could have been wiped out by “Brand New Day”. (But everything still happened, right Marc?)

However, the “good” people at Marvel realised that their latest attempt to get MJ out of the picture and giving Peter my love life (or lack thereof) had turned into one big cluster. (This being a PG site, or I’d finish that word.) So, to save face they decided to make fun of themselves, with 101 Ways To End The Clone Saga, which has the various members of the Bullpen trying to come up with solutions to get things back to normal. Someday I’ll go over all the bad ideas, but tonight’s merges the Clone Saga with another crossover nightmare, Onslaught. (You know, the psychic embodyment of all of Professor X’s evil thoughts. Including a few about Llandra that…again, PG blog.)

 The Fight:

 So, Onslaught has his army of Sentinels, ready to take out the human race. No matter, Ben Reilly, the amazing Spider-Man, is here, and ready to kick butt!

 Or have his butt stepped on, one of the two. Admittedly, an easy win, but still leaves too many hanging plotlines, and we know Marvel would never do that. Stop crying, you’ll get your keyboard all wet.

The Aftermath:

Well, after a few bunch whole lot waaaaaaaay too many ideas, even Uatu gives up on watching these buffoons. Eventually, they do find a way to fix things until the next time they can find a way to regress the character’s life back to the 1970’s, the other cluster (PG blog, PG blog!) known as One More/Brand New Day. Maybe the “Parker Luck” hit full force not by being a single loser living in his aunt’s attic (despite having had apartments of his own in the past), but in getting writers who want to write “their” Spider-Man instead of today’s Spider-Man. And because I need another image, here’s a shot of Spidey’s new upcoming costume change:

Something else I threw together in 5 minutes.