Well, DeFalco has offered two different stories: one that Ben was supposed to replace Pete, and Pete and MJ would become "Ben and Mary Reilly" and "retire" to Seattle with the new baby. Ben would prove to be the "real" Peter Parker and would resume his career as S-M. At other times, however, DeFalco has said that they planned all along to have Pete be the one, true S-M and Ben would either get his own book (if he proved popular enough) or would just disappear, but not die. So, given the conflicts about the origin, I'm curious to see what happens. Thus far, I've not been wildly impressed with the story, but I am really interested in seeing which of the apocraphyl "true" endings wins out!