Ben Reilly's Time As Spider-Man Comes To An End... And His Future As Chasm Begins

On 3/31/2022 at 7:25 PM, ADour said:

It's not a symbiote. He was mutated by... uh, "a quantum-shifting polymer in a psycho-reactive medium." Kinda like the Joker but instead of chemical waste, he fell into technobabble.

Hmmm...I'll have to go back and re-read it, either way, still has a cool look to it, and definitely something I'd buy a figure of, regardless of the way it came to be.

Ben is now Chasm, in his neon suit, sure whatever, I'm sure he will be Scarlet Spider again in a few years

they are always doing something weird with Ben, I wish they'd just leave him alone.

the new suit looks meh, too much flashy 2022 jazz going on.

On 4/2/2022 at 3:36 AM, RoMe00150 said:

While that is true the ongoing had so much tonal whiplash plus the rushed ending to get him ready for Spider-Geddon. Then after they completed his journey and we got the Ben people have been asking for...he just gets shoved into other ongoing as a gust star and when they make him a star again it's right back to villain. It's clear Marvel had no clue what they wanted to do after they brought him back. Which shows me it was just another shock tactic to try and get attention

Oh, yeah. That, definitely.

On 4/1/2022 at 12:30 PM, ADour said:

What do you mean they did nothing with him? Ben got his own ongoing series after Dead No More, which lasted for a decent amount of issues (in today's standards), then was in Spider-Geddon, in Iron Man for a bit for some reason, and then he starred in this last stretch of Amazing Spider-Man that led to him becoming Chasm.

While that is true the ongoing had so much tonal whiplash plus the rushed ending to get him ready for Spider-Geddon. Then after they completed his journey and we got the Ben people have been asking for...he just gets shoved into other ongoing as a gust star and when they make him a star again it's right back to villain. It's clear Marvel had no clue what they wanted to do after they brought him back. Which shows me it was just another shock tactic to try and get attention

On 4/1/2022 at 8:27 AM, RoMe00150 said:

This is beyond stupid. Especially since they brought him back and did nothing with it. Even in the letter column they said they had no idea what to do with Ben.....then if nobody had any ideas why let Dan Slott even bring him back

What do you mean they did nothing with him? Ben got his own ongoing series after Dead No More, which lasted for a decent amount of issues (in today's standards), then was in Spider-Geddon, in Iron Man for a bit for some reason, and then he starred in this last stretch of Amazing Spider-Man that led to him becoming Chasm.

This is beyond stupid. Especially since they brought him back and did nothing with it. Even in the letter column they said they had no idea what to do with Ben.....then if nobody had any ideas why let Dan Slott even bring him back

On 4/1/2022 at 12:25 AM, ADour said:

It's not a symbiote. He was mutated by... uh, "a quantum-shifting polymer in a psycho-reactive medium." Kinda like the Joker but instead of chemical waste, he fell into technobabble.

Reminds me of the Superior Iron Man Armour which was based on Symbiotes

On 3/31/2022 at 5:52 PM, greenlucario said:

Definitely think this idea is ridiculous, especially how it invalidates everything post-Clone Conspiracy, and we seem to always kill all the extra symbiotes only to make a dozen more. But I'll be hitting that pre-order fast if this design ever gets a Marvel Legend.

It's not a symbiote. He was mutated by... uh, "a quantum-shifting polymer in a psycho-reactive medium." Kinda like the Joker but instead of chemical waste, he fell into technobabble.

Definitely think this idea is ridiculous, especially how it invalidates everything post-Clone Conspiracy, and we seem to always kill all the extra symbiotes only to make a dozen more. But I'll be hitting that pre-order fast if this design ever gets a Marvel Legend.

I'm not sure about this change, costume kinda looks cool but Scarlet Spider is well established name, I doubt rebranding will do any good for him sales or character development wise. I did enjoy most recent Amazing Spider-Man with him. But I have doubts that comic book industry can support 3 Spider-Men, it will probably sell ok but previous series started from 25k sales and ended up with 12k sales, which wasn't horrible but losing Scarlet Spider name makes me doubt it can compare in sales with Ben's previous title.