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“Kaine,” Web of Spider-Man (Vol. 3/2024), #1.

Writer: Steve Foxe; Penciler: Greg Land; Inker: Jay Leisten; Letterer: Frank D’Armata

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Web of Spider-Man #Web of Spider-Man 2024 #Web of Spider-Man vol. 3 #Scarlet Spider #Kaine #Kaine Parker #this is everything to me #I’m holding marvel editorial to this

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“Kaine,” Web of Spider-Man (Vol. 3/2024), #1.

Writer: Steve Foxe; Penciler: Greg Land; Inker: Jay Leisten; Letterer: Frank D’Armata

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Web of Spider-Man #Web of Spider-Man vol. 3 #Web of Spider-Man 2024 #latest release #Scarlet Spider #Kaine #Kaine Parker #this is one of my /favorite/ things about Kaine #I’m not sure how prevalent this is among other fans but I love how doing the «right thing» is rarely his first instinct #but he always gets there in the end #he maybe halfway through his omelette before he remembers he should help with the fire but he hustles over there as soon as he realizes #it’s just an interesting character facet for a super hero book #(and reminds me of super early Peter Parker who would as soon swing over a robbery as stop it #if he needed to deliver Aunt May’s medication) #but yeah love his begrudging sense of responsibility that dogs him #that he may call Ben a headache and try to dismiss the sewer workers but he also doesn’t want to hurt the thing trying to snap his spine #TOO bad and will inevitably try his best to help everyone he can #gosh I’ve missed him

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“Kaine,” Web of Spider-Man (Vol. 3/2024), #1.

Writer: Steve Foxe; Penciler: Greg Land; Inker: Jay Leisten; Letterer: Frank D’Armata

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Web of Spider-Man #Web of Spider-Man vol. 3 #Web of Spider-Man 2025 #latest release #Scarlet Spider #Kaine #Kaine Parker #big fan of them maintaining two very important continuity points: #the fact that Kaine doesn’t have spider-sense #and the incredible amount of censorship needed to make his internal dialogue fit to print #(I love his sailor’s vocabulary dearly)

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“Kaine,” Web of Spider-Man (Vol. 3/2024), #1.

Writer: Steve Foxe; Penciler: Greg Land; Inker: Jay Leisten; Letterer: Frank D’Armata

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #latest release #Web of Spider-Man #Web of Spider-Man vol. 3 #Web of Spider-Man 2024 #Scarlet Spider #Kaine #Kaine Parker #«there’s something behind me isn’t there» #and yeah Kaine’s been away too long :’) #not sure if this is on purpose but love the continuation of Kaine just taking off his mask whenever #Peter’s secret identity be hexed #and okay we’ve got some continuity going on #naturally I’m still a touch salty about how they only just barely remembered Kaine in the last issue of End of the Spider-Verse #but I will almost give it a pass due to this interesting discussion comparing the many very stressful times Kaine’s died #with this most recent experience (and how it might tie into how Kaine does not seem meant for peace #either due to the universe’s intervention or his own pesky conscience that you’d have to waterboard him to admit he has) #I also wonder though if they’re going to allude to Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider when dealing with editorial’s I mean Ben’s habit of spiraling #and flip-flopping between his true self and Evil™️ (for some poorly constructed reason) #((sorry I just wish they would find another angle for poor Ben)) #but I feel like they might just stick to dealing with the current Chasm crisis (we shall see)

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“Kaine,” Web of Spider-Man (Vol. 3/2024), #1.

Writer: Steve Foxe; Penciler: Greg Land; Inker: Jay Leisten; Letterer: Frank D’Armata

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Web of Spider-Man #Web of Spider-Man vol. 3 #Web of Spider-Man 2024 #latest release #Scarlet Spider #Kaine #Kaine Parker #RAAAAAAAH KAINE MENTION 🗣️🗣️🗣️ #and it’s more than just a panel cameo!!! and he continues to have his spooky stealth suit!!!! #absolutely wild that I finished my read-through all the way back in December 2022 #and now I’m over the moon because I get to update two of my blogs today #as for what’s actually on the panel: does my love for Kaine mean that sometimes I wish he could have his own independent stories #solely focused on developing his character? sure #but I’m also fascinated by where they’ll take Ben and Kaine’s relationship since the last time they were together #outside of a big multi-reality Spider-person fight Kaine got stabbed (I wonder if they’ll bring that up at all) #and I think it’s sweet that he’s trying to look out for Peter in his own way/have a bit of sympathy (feelings of responsibility???) for Ben #(and if you couldn’t already tell I’m just so desperate to see Kaine I’d almost forgive Greg Land’s art hahaha) #anyway love the begrudging stumbling backwards into responsibility #it’s very Kaine

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“Two Minds,” Superior Spider-Man (Vol. 3/2023), #4.

Writer: Dan Slott; Penciler: Mark Bagley; Inker: John Dell; Colorist: Edgar Delgado; Letterer: Joe Caramagna

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Superior Spider-Man #Superior Spider-Man vol. 3 #Superior Spider-Man 2023 #latest release #Scarlet Spider #Kaine #Kaine Parker #once again!!! not actually Kaine in reality because this is one of those «trapped in the mindscape» scenarios but!!! #I feel like they are slowly reintroducing Kaine into the ecosystem in preparation for the summer event #and I for one cannot wait for him to take over #especially notable that in this instance Kaine - Bob Reynolds and frigging Howard the Duck are all considered allies but not Ben Reilly #(unless one of those vaguely spider-person-shaped shadows is supposed to be Ben) but in any case #oof #but yeah I may have my beef with Slott and the Superior Spider-Man thing but (as always) #I’m just so happy to see Kaine pop up

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“Beware…The Werewolf by Night of 2099!” Miguel O’Hara - Spider-Man 2099 (Vol. 1/2023), #3.

Writer: Steve Orlando; Penciler and Inker: Jason Muhr; Colorist: Raúl Angulo; Letterer: Cory Petit

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 2099 #Miguel O’Hara - Spider-Man 2099 #Spider-Man #Miguel O’Hara #Scarlet Spider #Kaine #Kaine Parker #I’ll take the corner of a panel reminding the audience that bone stingers are a thing that Kaine has #it’s only a VR hologram but when I tell you I’m so desperate for Kaine content #between this and that one panel from the Spider-Boy comic about incredulously asking Peter: #«do you really think you could /Kaine/ what to do???» which was valid as all get out #anyway I hear scuttlebutt that there’s something coming down the pipe for this summer where Kaine might finally get a chance #to kick Ben’s rear into shape over that whole Chasm debacle #here’s to hoping that actually materializes #but in any case this blog will always remain to catch whatever Kaine appearance I can get my hands on

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“End of the Spider-Verse - Part Seven: Spider-Genesis,” Spider-Man (Vol. 4/2022), #7.

Writer: Dan Slott; Penciler: Mark Bagley; Inkers: John Dell and Andrew Hennessy; Colorist: Edgar Delgado; Letterer: Joe Caramagna

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Spider-Man (2022) #Spider-Man vol. 4 #latest release #Scarlet Spider #Kaine #Kaine Parker #Spider-Woman #Jessica Drew #Araña #Anya Corazon #Silk #Cindy Moon #I’m LOSING it #turn on your location Slott I just want to talk #I am torn between ‘well at least they remembered him eventually’ and #‘I’m getting flashbacks to many instances of post-OMD not quite ???? mocking???? back-handed pandering’ bwahahaha #but yeah to reiterate I’m cackling #very in-character for Kaine to go out telling Shathra to shove it as well #good for him

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Variant cover for Avengers: Forever (Vol. 2/2022), #15 by Daniel Hainsworth.

Zoom-in under the cut:

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Avengers: Forever #Cover gallery #Scarlet Spider #Kaine #Kaine Parker #Hummingbird #Aracely Penalba #there they are !!!! somebody remembered that they exist!!! and not just Kaine either but Aracely too! #love them both dearly #although I have heard (very baseless so take this with an infinitesimally small pinch of salt) rumors that the current Spider-Man writer #wants to rope in Kaine and….considering how Chasm went…tengo miedo #I have SO much fear #we would have more Kaine content but if it’s at the price of the level of character warping they’ve been doing with Ben??? #…אױ װײ #anyway so there’s my update; we’ll just have to see #also! hi everyone thanks for stopping by on this blog hahaha

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!!!!! I got ahold of Chess Collection #73!

Went to a new (for me) comic book store and they had Kaine’s chess piece and the accompanying comic book! And for real, criminally cheap too! Now that I have the chance to flip through it, I see that it’s more of a guide book. But!!! it’s a guide book all about Kaine, which for me personally is very exciting.

I might object to their assessment of Kaine not sharing Peter’s humanity, but I appreciate them wrestling the “superior” title away from Octavius.

The issue itself is a bit larger than the average comic book and over all is a little warped from age, so it’s a little hard for me to get good pictures or scans of it, but if anyone would like to see more of it, just let me know and I’ll see what I can do!

It offers a highly respectable overview of Kaine’s admittedly complicated history up until what had been published at the time, even managing to make sense of all the machinations surrounding “who’s the original Peter???” during the Clone Saga and ending with Kaine’s involvement in Scarlet Spiders. Accordingly, there’s nothing here from the Clone Conspiracy nor Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider, but that makes me wonder if this chess collection had been released later, if they would have made a piece for Ben, as opposed to, say, the Living Brain (????!?? hahaha).

My only other comment would be that my inner academic wished that they had included citations for all the comics they reference (because they reference a lot of comics and if I were a new fan, I would be completely lost) but I completely understand the reality of space limitations. They do offer an “essential reading” list which includes the “Mark of Kaine” arc from the Clone Saga (Web of Spider-Man #124, Spectacular Spider-Man #224, Amazing Spider-Man #401, Spider-Man #58, and Spider-Man Unlimited #9), the first five issues of Scarlet Spider (Vol. 2/2012), and Scarlet Spiders, which is,,,,,,an acceptable list, I guess hahaha.

Over all,,,, I just thought I’d share, because I got excited.

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Chess Collection #Scarlet Spider #Kaine #Kaine Parker #I’ve now got my own little ‘White Knight’ Kaine chilling on my desk #Also!!! Another insanely lucky find was that this store had actual individual issues from Scarlet Spider vol. 2! #I snagged 13-16 and 23-25 and uuuuuh pretty much cleaned out their Scarlet Spider vol. 2 stock…..sorry other Kaine fans in [REDACTED]

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Variant cover for Spider-Geddon (Vol. 1/2018), #2 by Lee In-Hyuk.

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Spider-Geddon #Scarlet Spider #Kaine #Kaine Parker #Spider-Man #Spider-Man PS4 #Peter Parker #Spider-Kid #Charlie Parker #Cover Gallery #Insomniac’s Spider-Man my beloved #and that’s the last of the variant covers I could dig up for Kaine #should be heading to the MC2 next #if you’ll excuse me I’ll be trying to figure out what the heck is a ‘Darkdevil’ and/or a ‘Reilly Tyne’

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Variant cover for Clone Conspiracy (Vol. 1/2016), #5 by Alexander Lozano.

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Clone Conspiracy #Scarlet Spider #Kaine #Kaine Parker #Prowler #Hobie Brown #Madame Web #Cassandra Webb #like many things with Kaine I sure do wish we could have seen more of a team-up with him and Prowler #but then again who am I kidding I’d like to see more of Hobie in general #(and how I feel about the frequency of Kaine’s appearances is a-given hahaha)

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Variant cover for Clone Conspiracy (Vol. 1/2016), #5 by Mark Bagley.

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Clone Conspiracy #Scarlet Spider #Kaine #Kaine Parker #Spider-Man #Peter Parker #Spider-Woman #Gwen Stacy #Prowler #Hobie Brown #Ben Reilly #Cover Gallery #shoutout to the tags left on a reblog of my last post about how Bagley’s art may not perhaps be a favorite #but it’s nonetheless…so easily recognizable and such a mainstay of Spider-Man comics that it’s almost comforting #because yeah I feel that

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Variant cover for Scarlet Spiders (Vol. 1/2014), #1 by Mark Bagley.

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Scarlet Spiders #Scarlet Spider #Kaine #Kaine Parker #Ben Reilly #Black Widow #Jessica Drew #Cover Gallery #Not me (once again) combing through every pixel of the new expanded Across the Spider-Verse poster #for even the slightest glimpse of a fully black mask with red lenses hahaha

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Variant cover for Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 3/2014), #13 by Gabriele Dell’Otto

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Amazing Spider-Man vol. 3 #Amazing Spider-Man 2014 #Scarlet Spider #Kaine #Kaine Parker #Cover Gallery #or at least I’m pretty darn sure that’s Kaine swinging in at the bottom right corner #this is a connecting cover so unfortunately his left foot is on the next issue’s cover RIP hahaha

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Variant cover for New Warriors (Vol. 5/2014), #3 by Mark Bagley.

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #New Warriors vol. 5 #New Warriors 2014 #Scarlet Spider #Kaine #Kaine Parker #Hummingbird #Aracely Penalba #Sun Girl #Selah Burke #Justice #Vance Astrovik #Speedball #Robbie Baldwin #Haechi #Mark Sim #Nova #Sam Alexander #Water Snake #Faira sar Namora #Cover Gallery

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Variant cover for New Warriors (Vol. 5/2014), #2 by Jorge Molina.

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #New Warriors vol. 5 #New Warriors 2014 #Scarlet Spider #Kaine #Kaine Parker #Hummingbird #Aracely Penalba #Sun Girl #Selah Burke #Haechi #Mark Sim #Speedball #Robbie Baldwin #Justice #Vance Astrovik #Water Snake #Faira sar Namora #Nova #Sam Alexander #Cover Gallery