COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Amazing Spider-Man 626 Modern
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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1010627011
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Owner:
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AlphaPrimeIan
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Synopsis: “The Sting”
At their apartment, Michelle is sitting with one of her dodgier clients, named Lucas. Peter asks if he can watch TV while they talk—Michelle cheerily informs Peter that until he pays his half of the cable bill, she’s not unlocking the parental control off of the cable. Lucas excuses himself, but not before setting off Peter’s spider-sense. He decides to trail Lucas to Queensboro Plaza.
There at a construction site, a bunch of goons are assembled, called into order by Bushwacker and Tombstone. Holding court over all of them is the crime lord The Hood. Hood tells the crowd that whoever gets in the ring and is the last man standing will receive his recent acquisition of Mac Gargan’s battlesuit, and will become the new Scorpion. Spidey, watching from above in the rafters, realizes he’s out of his depth. He thinks he needs to call in some backup, but sneaking up behind him is Lady Scorpion.
Spidey and Lady Scorpy battle it out, and she explains that SHIELD hooked her up with her powers and costume, expecting her to be a trained killer, but that she turned her back on them. She manages to sting Spidey with her tail, and tells him to stay out of her way. For some reason, the sting inhibits Spidey’s powers (because of something called S.P.I.N??)—he slides down when he tries to cling to a wall, down to where Tombstone and company spot him. The Hood orders them to kill him, and the gang sets upon him.
Lady Scorpion, meanwhile, trashes The Hood and grabs Gargan’s suit for herself. Hood orders the thugs to forget Spider-man and kill her instead. This gives Peter the chance to change into street clothes. He then bumps headlong into Michelle Gonzales—Peter explains that he didn’t like the looks of her charge, Lucas, and that Peter decided to trail him. Michelle spin kicks a thug with a machine gun. She explains if she’s curt and aggressive, it’s because the clients who depend on her deserve nothing less.
The Hood is still stalking Lady Scorpion—Tombstone jumps her from the shadows, biting into her shoulder. She zaps him with her tail—but the Hood and his gang find her.
Michelle runs into Lucas—he asks what in the hell she’s doing there, and explains how worthless she really is to another thug. He starts choking her, but Peter comes up and clubs him from behind. His spider-sense beginning to come back, Peter sends Michelle off to call the cops, and changes back into Spidey. Just in time to save Lady Scorpy from Hood, and bring the unstable support beams in the ceiling down on the thugs with webbing. Swinging with Scorpy to the safety of nearby building, Scorpy tells Spidey she owes him one.
Later, Peter and Michelle are talking in a café. Michelle feels like a fool for being taken by Lucas. She admits she was wrong about Lucas, and that maybe she’s wrong about Peter too. They agree to a truce, and Peter apologizes for whatever happened the night of Aunt May’s wedding. Michelle tells him it’s a good first step, but that he still can’t watch her cable TV.
Epilogue: down in Midtown Manhattan, near dawn, Lady Scorpia is handing over Gargan’s old Scorpion outfit to, who else, but Sasha and Ana Kraven. Sasha rattles off something about the garb of a sacred totem, and how the animal spirits will be pleased. Lady Scorpion mutters how they’re Russian nut jobs.
Released: March 24, 2010
Writer: Fred Van Lente
Cover Artist: Michael del Mundo
Est. Print Run: 53,867
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