Spider-Boy #9 pg 13 SPLASH & pg 14 by Nate Stockman, 2024 -- Spider-Boy finds himself piloting the giant robot Leopardon!

When we last left Spider-Boy, he was tumbling through the Web Of Life & Destiny. In Spider-Boy's place there appeared the Spider-Man from Earth-51778 (Takuya Yamashiro), who cried out "What have you done?! I was in mid-battle against an unspeakable evil! If I am here ..."

On this two-page sequence, we learn the end of that cliffhanger sentence is that SPIDER-BOY is now inside that Spider-Man's giant robot Leopardon!

The top panel on page 14 always makes me laugh. Poor Spider-Boy has no idea what he is doing, haha!

Spider-Man informs the Spider-Ladies that he was in mid battle with a "Monster BEM" (Monster Bug-Eyed Monster?) that only he and Leopardon can defeat.

Silk finds a way to communicate with Spider-Boy through the Great Web, telling him that he must step up and fill in for Earth 51778's Spider-Man, fighting his foes and winning his battles.

When Spider-Boy looks out through Leopardon's windows and sees his new foe, he yells out that it is a Kaiju (Japanese term for giant monster), and that it is a Kaiju version of one of HIS (Spider-Boy's) bad guys! It's a Kaiju version of ....

ANOTHER CLIFFHANGER !!!

Stay tuned!

NOTE: Nate's process involves doing the pencils on one board, and then copying the pencils to another board for inking. I was lucky enough to get both boards for every page of this 17-page story.