For this week’s article at ComicsAlliance, I turn the spotlight onto duplicates both perfect and imperfect in a round-up of the greatest clones in comics!
There’s a pretty wide selection there (ranging, as it does, from Judge Dredd to Ben Franklin II), but as it’s done in (dubious) honor of Marvel revisiting the Spider-Man Clone Saga this week with an all-new miniseries–yes, really–it gave me the opportunity to put the greatest Spider-Clone of all in there: Webby and Webby-2, the magic mirror duplicates that Dr. Doom made in Spidey Super Stories #25!
Yes: They are even better than Kaine.
So please, enjoy, and if you’ve got a favorite clone in comics… Well, if you can honestly say that you’ve got a favorite clone in comics, I don’t know what to tell you, kiddo.
Enjoy!
I cant decide between the clone body of rex-splode that robot made for himself in invincible and the clone body of Prof Xavier the Shi’ar made for him so he could get de-possed by the brood with the SIDE-EFFECT of (eventually) enabeling him to walk again… for a while (until his back was broken again, um, again, I think).
Spidey Super-Stories on the ISB. Rhyming Doctor Doom. Norman Osborne stealing candy from children.
And, of course, the Thanos-copter.
We shall not see thy crazy batshit like again, Spidey Super-Stories.
It was bittersweet to go back through those posts looking for Webby, knowing I’d sworn off posting about SSS ever again.
I think I saw Webby in the newest ASM while browsing at my local comics shop. He was choking a woman to death, did he ever do that in Spidey Super-Stories?
Oh my god I LOVED WEBBY back in the day.
I am feeling so many complicated feelings right now. Hold me.
Alfisback – I think that was Spider-Man under the influence of Mr. Negative in Mr. Negative’s mini series.
Oh, lord, SPIDEY CLONES. I HATE Spidey clones.
Favourite clone. Does the Magus count? If so, the Magus. If not… Rogue Trooper?
My LCS has a nice stock of SSS issues in the back issue bins, some of which aren’t stupidly expensive. The Webby issue is one of them… I may need to pick that up one of these days. The last one I bought had Spidey and Captain America celebrating the bicentennial by trying to stop Kang from preventing the American Revolution. Kang’s reason for wanting to change history? He got mad that a special about the bicentennial pre-empted Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.
God damn do I love Spidey Super Stories.
Seriously, where is my Essential Spidey Super Stories already?
Also, that panel seems like it could totally be a meme if people not as lazy as me filled in Webby’s word balloon in Photoshop, because Spidey’s response if pretty versatile. It could cover a lot of ground. Like:
You should never have signed off on Spider-Man 3.
That I knoowww would be a great response. And so on.
Green Goblin (pushing Gwen Stacey off the bridge): “What idiot decided that we had consensual sex, and you were the mother of my uber-twins!?”
Gwen: “I KNOOOOOWWWWwwwww!”
For some reason it took your article to make me realize why zombie Ben Franklin in Dr McNinja seemed familiar. SCUD the Disposable Assassin!
Man, Webby’s colour scheme hurts my head for some reason, but I like it.
I like the cut of bookrats’ jib.