Reprinting Amazing Spider-Man #698-700, which featured the death of Peter Parker and the beginning of Superior Spider-Man!
Its funny how these things work.
Oh, the things we tell ourselves for comics…
The thing is, when you kill a major superhero off, there are expectations.
Chief among these expectations is that the hero will eventually return.
It needs to mean something.
Theyd better go out in a way in which they lived their life.
when I picked up that first chapter.
By the last page ofAmazing Spider-Man#698, I wasnt so sure.
You all know how it ends.
But like any good story, Dying Wish is about the journey.
But Doctor Octopus and Spider-Man?
If theres anyone in Spideys rogues gallery that fits the dark mirror mold, its Otto Octavius.
Despite Ock now inhabiting Spider-Mans body, this is never a physical superhero story.
The battle between Peter and Otto is almost entirely on the intellectual level.
And, yknow what?
When you really get down to it, Peter loses this one.
Ock thought of everything.
Well…almost everything.
But is that really how Peter Parker should die, given what we know about him?
That is the very definition of a hellish defeat.
Who says these stories cant be good?
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