Marvel’s Madelyne Pryor and Ben Reilly Are Teaming Up to Do Some Wrong

It is the yr of our lord Emma Frost 2022—and readers, someway it has taken Marvel Comics this lengthy to group up its two most iconic clones.

Today Marvel introduced extra particulars for its plans for Dark Web, a brand new Spider-Man/X-Men crossover occasion launching on the finish of the yr. The worlds of Spider-Man and mutantkind have lengthy been related—they’ve been Amazing Friends, even—however their newest collaboration will see two of their most private foes group up in an try and make their collective lives depressing.

Those private foes are in fact Madelyne Pryor, the one-time spouse of Scott Summers, revealed to be… nicely, it’s sophisticated, however a Jean Grey clone turned soul-selling Goblin Queen who’s presently the ruler of the demonic dimension Limbo; and Ben Reilly, the one-time clone of Peter Parker who, nicely, it’s sophisticated, however has had a case of the gone good, gone dangerous, gone good, gone dangerous a couple of occasions because the occasions of Clone Saga and is presently the vengeful villain Chasm. The two lately had a short encounter within the pages of the Free Comic Book Day Spider-Man/Venom story the place they realized that hey, they’re each clones horribly mistreated by the individuals of their lives and possibly, simply possibly, that’s sufficient for a little bit evil tag group.

Which is pleasant, as a result of Maddie and Ben actually do have quite a bit in widespread, handled unfairly out and in of the textual content that’s Marvel’s lengthy comics historical past over the previous few a long time as they grappled with the respective shadows of the individuals they had been cloned from, Jean Grey and Peter Parker. Now that Maddie and Ben have discovered some stage of acceptance of their present identities because the Goblin Queen and Chasm, it’s going to be fascinating to see simply what plans they should make their former allies on the planet of heroes residing hell. Or, an Inferno, as Marvel retains teasing, even supposing we simply had a kind of.

Dark Web can be bookended with two one-shot points referred to as Dawn and Dusk, in addition to function spinoff miniseries titled Dark Web: X-Men and Dark Web: Ms. Marvel. As from that, the principle story itself will play out in problems with Amazing Spider-Man, Mary Jane & Black Cat, Gold Goblin, and Venom, earlier than concluding in February 2023. That’s quite a lot of Spider-Man titles for a sequence that’s additionally concerning the X-Men, however hey, these mutants have received a lot sufficient to take care of proper now anyway.

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