Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider #5 pg 1 SPLASH by Bagley, 2017 -- Clone vs Clone!

Bagley Week, Day Six! (Holy cow, this guy is obsessed!)

Tonight I am posting both the cover and page 1 splash to Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider #5.

I loved having Ben Reilly come back into the Marvel Universe, especially having everyone thinking he was the Jackal during the whole "Dead No More: Clone Conspiracy" saga. Having him return as a mentally imbalanced anti-hero was a brilliant move that surprised everyone.

Then after he was unmasked and defeated, he moved to Las Vegas to re-don his hoodie sweatshirt and have more adventures there as the Scarlet Spider. But he was not free and clear by any means. Kaine, the other Scarlet Spider (and other clone of Peter Parker) followed him there, and being unconvinced that Ben was anything but a dangerous psychopath, proceeded to attack him at every turn.

Being that they are both clones, with all of the powers of the original Spider-Man, the battle action scenes were a lot of fun, like this full page splash where Kaine throws a punch that is evaded by the acrobatic Ben.