COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Amazing Spider-Man 631 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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0169664025
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Owner:
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AlphaPrimeIan
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Synopsis: “Shed: Part 2 - The Death of Curt Connors”
The story opens with Spider-Man's flawed clone, Kaine, stalking through the South Bronx. Don't worry, we haven't missed an issue. Kaine is being hunted by Ana and Alyosha Kravinov. Ana manages to put the frighteners on Kaine and drug him. Only his "acid touch" manages to save him. As Kaine makes his escape, Alyosha chides Ana. They cannot pursue, the Lizard has hatched, and needs to be fed.
Meanwhile, Peter Parker is enjoying a genuinely new experience: being stood up! He's sitting in a restaurant waiting for Carlie Cooper, but she doesn't show. While walking home, Peter receives a call from her. She apologises; she's at a crime scene in Phelcorp Labs. It's Curt Connors, and it's bad. Within minutes, Peter Parker is at the scene in his regulation red and blue long-johns.
Spider-Man can't believe that this has happened again. He believed Connors when he said that he was cured. Carlie's having trouble taking it all in. Six people dead, only the assistant Marissa is alive and she's in no shape to talk to anyone. Connors was trying to get custody of his son. How did it all go so wrong for him? Carlie's words act as a spur for Spider-Man. The Lizard is bound to go after Billy Connors. Spidey has to get there to save him.
Spidey races to the address of Billy's foster parents, getting there moments before the Lizard. Now it is the Lizard's voice that is strong, and Connor's voice that is merely a whisper in the dark. But Connors's voice is loud enough to express his relief that Spider-Man has arrived to stop him: has arrived to save his son, again.
Spidey tries to get through to Connors, to get him to take control of the Lizard, but it is all in vain. A vicious fight ensues that sees Spidey thrown through the front door of the house he is trying to guard. It is then Spidey realises that he is too late. Something horrible has already happened in this house, something that happened before the Lizard arrived.
Spidey hears a cry for help inside. At this instant the Lizard tastes the air with his long tongue and then lumbers off into the city, his entourage of freed lizards in tow. Spidey doesn't know why the Lizard departed, but he won't look a gift horse in the mouth. He tags the Lizard with a spider-tracer and then heads into the trashed house to find a broken and bleeding woman. This is Billy's foster mother. But Billy isn't here. The woman says that he was taken by a young girl. Spidey is stumped. Who would take Billy Connors?
In a dark alley not far from the house, Ana Kravinov is holding Billy Connors. He is frightened and he is crying, but she is unmoved. She can hear the Lizard coming, it has caught Billy's scent. Ana runs before the Lizard arrives. The hulking beast corners Billy in the alley. The boy begs his father to spare him, and in the Lizard's mind Connor is desperate to control the monster. But it is to no avail.
The Lizard is intent to assert its dominance over Connors, and to do that it must consume Connors's young. The abominable act destroys Connors sanity and any hold that he might have exerted over the Lizard. Connors is dead, just as Madame Web predicted. From a nearby building Ana and Alyosha Kravinov watch the Lizard feed.
Released: May 12, 2010
Cover Ratio: 1:15
Writer: Zeb Wells
Cover Artist: Doug Braithwaite
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