Today I was just thinking back to one of my attempts at resurrecting the Clone Saga back in 1997, and just thought I'd share.
Back when I was an aspiring artist, I sat down and began drawing a 7-part epic (across all the Spider-titles) where SM #75 ended with Ben staying alive (like my other post-CS ideas). In this continuity, Ben and Peter were both pulling double-duty as Spidey (Peter had Amazing and Peter Parker, Ben got Web and Sensational, they alternated Team-Up and Unlimited and shared Spectacular Spider-Men). However, I embarrassingly admit that I made a major faux pas during my story.
I had only really been reading regularly since 1991, so by 1997 I was still actually a little green to the finer points to some of the larger stories due to my inadequate collection at the time. I believe it was UXM #303, which gave a brief background on Illyana's history and I mistakenly combined in my mind her kidnapping by Arcade and her time in Limbo.
I had gotten it in my head that Arcade sent Illyana to Limbo, so one of the key points to my story was Norman hires Arcade to send baby May to Limbo. When she emerged a teenager, she had spider-powers with the addition of telepathy (as opposed to Spider-Girl's tactile telekinesis) and Osborn programmed her to hate Spidey. He set her out as the new Scarlet Spider against Ben and Peter. Of course, the spider-senses all canceled each other out, and it was using MJ's personal tracer amped-up that knocked some sense into May and brought her back on the right side.
What followed was a team-up with the X-Men (due to Phoenix feeling May's psychic backlash) as the Spiders invaded Murderworld to take on Osborn and Arcade. I never really got to finish the story, especially when Spider-Girl debuted months later, but the end result would have been a Scarlet Spider spin-off where May moves to Seattle to find herself and build a life to make up for the 17 or so years she lost. I'd still love to do something with it, but it needs a lot of major tweaks.
