Clone Saga Callback Archive

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August 18, 2015Random Runs of SpideyNo comments

My ongoing series celebrating the 20th anniversary of the infamous Spider-Man “Clone Saga” is currently being featured at SuperiorSpiderTalk.com. Please check out some of my latest “Clone Saga Callback” entries in this difficult to write (but also quite fun) retrospective of what many consider one of the worst Spidey

Clone Saga Callback: Aftershocks

By Mark Ginocchio

April 28, 2015Random Runs of Spidey1 Comment

It’s completely emblematic that in the midst of one of the most controversial periods for Spider-Man comics in the character’s history, Marvel would deliver a surefire classic in Amazing Spider-Man #400, and then follow-up that beautiful and tender story with the two-part “Aftershocks” (Spider-Man #57 and Spectacular Spider-Man #223)

Clone Saga Callback: Players and Pawns

By Mark Ginocchio

April 21, 2015Random Runs of SpideyNo comments

I hope none of you think you’ve escape the clutches of my ongoing “Clone Saga Callback” retrospective just yet. We only get one shot to celebrate the 20th anniversary of what many consider to be one of the worst Spider-Man stories ever published (I’m still not ready to concede

Clone Saga Callback: Smoke and Mirrors

By Mark Ginocchio

March 10, 2015Random Runs of SpideyNo comments

If you thought I was done with my “Clone Saga Callback” series just because I never wrote about the “Web of Death” storyline in which Doctor Octopus saves Peter Parker’s life before getting murdered by the mysterious Kaine, think again. I actually wrote about “Web of Death” two summers

Clone Saga Callback: “Web of Life”

By Mark Ginocchio

January 20, 2015Random Runs of Spidey1 Comment

We’re now into the third full arc (or at least the third full installment) of the “Clone Saga” and I think the four-part “Web of Life” is the first indication that there were some serious flaws with the long-term planning of this storyline. It would still be quite some

Clone Saga Callback: The Exile Returns

By Mark Ginocchio

November 19, 2014Random Runs of Spidey1 Comment

After formally reintroducing the clone in the “Power and Responsibility” arc the month before, Marvel immediately starting mixing things up a bit with its Spider-books in order to advance the “Clone Saga.” While Peter Parker continued his descent into madness in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man and Spectacular Spider-Man

Clone Saga Callback: Power and Responsibility

By Mark Ginocchio

October 14, 2014Random Runs of Spidey7 Comments

Today marks the first entry in an ongoing project for Chasing Amazing that I hope I don’t come to regret. Twenty years ago this month, the Spider-Verse’s status quo was turned upside down with Web of Spider-Man #117, the first part of the “Power and Responsibility” arc. For those