Story By: Mike Costa
Artist: Paco Diaz
Cover Art: Isreal Silva
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
Scarlet Spider's #2 two continues the story of what happened to Ben Reilly, Kaine and The Ultimate universe's Jessica Drew on their mission to one of the Inheritors homeworld, where they've discovered is the location of the cloning facility that enables the Inheritors to return from the dead.
The structure of this series is clearly designed to place each of the Spider's within the story at the forefront within. the first part was Black widow centric and key to relling the tale of the mission from Jessica's perspective.
For this insralment the story focuses more on the role of Kaine, as the spider's infiltrate the Baxter Building of this universe where the cloning facility resides. The writing for this issue is much better than the last, though a lot of that is down to the pace being picked up as the story unfolds. The action is also well depicted by the art of paco Diaz who again appears to have improved since the last issue as at times during "The Widow" the artwork seemed rushed. However in this issue the art and writing are both consistently solid meanng perhaps that the inconsistencies of the first issue have been ironed out like the kinks on an opening night of a performance as such.
The issue kicks of where it was left where Kane is pretending to be the captive of Iron Man, although inside the armour is Ben Reilly as the two clones attempt to gain entry to the Baxter Building. A paln that seems to be working till they are stopped by the Human Torch. who demands to know whats going on and where Iron Man is taking Peter Parker.
The pair manage to take down the torch and the subsequent security team to infiltrate further into the baxter building hunting the main cloning factory. The banter between Kaine and Ben evoke a strong feeling of ying and yang that is Peter Parker's personality but it's interesting to see and a welcome part of the story given the history of the two characters not essentially these two iterations. and after all it's easy to forget at times that the pair are for all intense purpose's Peter Parker, just with different experiences.
They make their way along a corridor and find a lab technician whom Kaine politely invites to let them into the lab. Once inside they discover they've found the cloning pods that house the spare empty shells that the inheritors have been stockpiling ready to download their consciousness into when required.
Elsewhere in the facility we find Jennix in discussion with this worlds Miles Warren (Yes that Miles Warren) over the infiltration by a mystery team that appears to be invisible or extremely fast . here you get the impression that Jennix is fully aware of whom the mystery infiltrators are and is formulating a plan on how to deal with the three Spiders.
Back in the lab Ben contacts Jessica for any information she can find regarding switching of the power feeds that are keeping the clone shells alive. she informs him the main power generator is on the other side of the building which may prove troublesome to get to, cue Kaine in stealth mode as he then battles his way through various security to establish a path to the power generator.
Kaine returns to Ben saying he's found something Reilly needs to see, and leads him to a chamber when in pods are the failed clones of Jennix. and a few revelations and questions are answered as not to spoil i'll just leave that there although suffice to say that a few elements are explained in a way that makes sense and explains why, although the Inheritors have the means to create clones, they continue to hunt Spider's instead of just cloning them and feasting on the clones.
I'm eager to see the outcome of this story and it's been a nice little side arc from the main Spider-Verse tale being played out in Amazing Spider-Man. the fact that we finally have Ben Reilly playing an important role after 16 years in the wilderness has something to do with that, and it's possible he has a bigger more signigficant part to play in Scarlet Spiders #3.
Overall i'm going to score this issue a 7.5 it's a good issue it moves the story along well and has excellent moments of action coupled with good banter between Ben and Kaine.
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