Spider-Geddon #1 Review

Writer: Christos Gage / Artist: Jorge Molina / Marvel Comics Spider-Geddon is officially upon us! I’ve never been more excited for one of the wackiest Marvel stories to ever grace comic book pages. Spider-Geddon is the sequel to 2014’s fantastic Spider-Verse comic event, which brought together several Spider-Men and Women from across multiple dimensions to do battle against the vampiric Inheritors. Once again, the Inheritors are the center focus of this event, as they have risen from their nuclear prison to prey on our Spider-heroes. If you’ve read the first issue of The Superior Octopus, you’ll know that our newly reformed Otto Octavius has been using the Inheritors technology to clone himself insurance bodies. And with Otto’s arrogant ass, just about everyone but him can see why this is a terrible idea. The story starts with the team getting the band back together to confront Otto and shut down his cloning tech before it’s too late. Spoiler … it’s too late. Using tech stolen from the Spider-drones sent to monitor them, they hijack Otto’s creation to build themselves new bodies.

There are several things that I like about the beginning of this new adventure. First is the focus on Miles rather than Peter as the central Spider-Man. Though Marvel is getting better about giving their legacy characters the shine that they deserve, sometimes it feels like push them to the side a lot. As Miles is set to take a prominent role in this event, it will be interesting to see how writer C…