Doc Destruction said:
Me too...sort of.
stillanerd said:
1. Peter, since quiting the registration side is on the run, and since everyone knows Spider-Man is Peter Parker, Peter adopts the identity of "Ben Reilly" as an alias when he's not in costume.
Of course, too many were blasing me for my "Ben Reilly clearly died" comment. Oh excuse me, disintegrated. Oh wait, wrongly disintegrated. No wait, writers mistakingly disintegrating a clone improperly. Either way, Ben Reilly ended up looking like he clearly died to me.
SPIDEY-DUDE: BLASPHAMY!
CITIZEN KAINE: STILLANERD'S THE ANTI-CHRIST!
LEGIONS OF BEN REILLY FANS: GET HIM!
(Stillanerd is promtly and swiftly beaten by sticks, stones, clubs, and is about to be hung, racked, dismembered, shot, and burned, all the while smiling over the fact that, regardless of what happens to him, he knows that Ben Reilly still hasn't come back to life.)
Admit it, folks. Being on the dark side is a whole lot of fun. Just ask Darth Vader.
*note: the poster's views on Ben Reilly in no way reflect his overall opinion on the character himself, especially since the poster believes that he was what the REAL Spider-Man should've been acting like all along (even though the poster strongly disagrees he was ever the real Spider-Man) and that there was no real reason for him to actually die. Then again, if he didn't, Spider-Girl may not have come to pass