Spider-Man: The Spider'S Shadow

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The Corruptible: The Symbiote tries to get Peter to see its way of thinking through nightmares, which leave the web-head with many sleepless nights and exhausted, both physically and mentally due to it taking him for a joyride to fight crime. It finally succeeds in turning him into a Terror Hero when Hobgoblin kills Aunt May and Spider-Man kills him in retaliation. The symbiote shifts all of the blame of May's death onto the Hobgoblin; while this is technically true, it ignores that it was the one that prevented Peter from trying to save her in the first place.

Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: In issue 5, the symbiote impales Reed with its tendrils as it abandons his body. Gaining the Will to Kill: At first, Peter manages to resist the symbiote's urgings to kill Hobgoblin, settling for unmasking him and warning him to stay away unless he wants another beating. It isn't until Hobgoblin murders May Parker that Peter gives in and crushes Hobgoblin's skull.Spider-Man: Spider's Shadow #1 is scheduled for release in April 2021. That also happens to be the month Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman are wrapping up their Venom run with the Venom #200 anniversary special.

Trilogy Creep: The series was intended to be a four-issue series, but it got bumped up to five issues. Evil Costume Switch: Downplayed. Although he still tries to protect innocent people, Spidey's costume becomes more menacing in appearance shortly before he kills the Hobgoblin, featuring a pair of fangs that allude to both a real spider's and Venom's below his lenses, added bulk, claws, and writhing tendrils of symbiote biomass protruding from his torso. Hair-Trigger Temper: In Issue #1, Peter is shown to be incredibly agitated due to a mix of the symbiote's corrupting influence, several days without sleep, and being plagued by nightmares involving the symbiote.Dark Is Not Evil: Peter goes full-on Anti-Hero after Aunt May's death at the hands of Hobgoblin, officially accepting the symbiote. Spotting the Thread: Fisk notes that Spider-Man began resorting to brutal methods to deal with criminals after he killed Hobgoblin, which has him investigate the circumstances behind the villain's actions before his death. When he discovers that Hobgoblin killed May Parker, he realizes Spider-Man's murder of Hobgoblin was a violent reaction to the old woman's death, meaning Spidey is someone close to May Parker; her nephew Peter Parker. Pragmatic Villainy: Fisk learning that Spider-Man has begun killing his foes worries him. Not because it means the web-slinger is getting serious, but because it's bad for his business. Up until now, all Spidey did was beat the shit out of his men and villains on his payroll and put them behind bars, so he can potentially still use them. It's another story if Peter is killing his men; he can't exactly work with corpses. That said, I did find the writing a bit linear and two-dimensional. There doesn't appear to be much subplot here, pretty much nothing at all really, which does leave it sitting somewhat flat. Spider-Man: Spider's Shadow is a 2021 Marvel Comics five-issue mini-series written by Chip Zdarsky, with art by Pasqual Ferry and Matt Hollingsworth. The reality this comic is set in has been officially designated as Earth-21619. It is the first in a new line of What If? mini-series, in this case: What if Peter Parker became Venom? The story received a follow-up called "Spider's Eclipse" in Extreme Venomverse.

After an incident with the Hobgoblin, however, things begin to change: Reed Richards informs Peter that his costume is actually alive and he should probably leave it with the Fantastic Four to investigate further, but Peter doesn't want to do that. The costume chose him and he's choosing it.From Bad to Worse: Jameson manages to remove the symbiote from Peter by forcing him into a burning barn and presumes it to be dead, but Peter senses that it survived the fire. The symbiote makes its way to the Baxter Building and takes over Mr. Fantastic, and to make matters worse, it has begun to spawn more symbiotes. Kryptonite-Proof Suit: The symbiote, having learned its lesson from past encounters with fire, builds itself a fireproof suit of armor once it takes possession of Reed Richards. Catapult Nightmare: Peter's been having a lot of these lately. At one point, he accidentally shoves MJ against a wall when he wakes up. The series ends with Peter joining the Fantastic Four, which was what the very first original What If? issue was all about. The design of his suit after Hobgoblin kills Aunt May is also very terrifying, as he adopts the claws, tendrils, and a bit of the added bulk typically associated with Venom and changes his mask into a more arachnoid visage, with four spider-like fangs painted on.