Warning: The following contains MAJOR SPOILERS for Spider-Man #4 by J.J. and Henry Abrams, Sara Pichelli, and Dave Stewart, available now.
From Blade to Morbius the Living Vampire, the Marvel Universe is full of undead characters. However, the most iconic reanimated threat has to be the Marvel Zombies, spun out of the pages of Ultimate Fantastic Four. However, there is another kind of zombie haunting the future presented in the pages of Spider-Man of a more cybernetic nature.
In the miniseries, Peter Parker's fifteen year old son Ben has taken up his father's place as Spider-Man. As of now, Ben, his friend Faye Ito aka The Marker, Riri Williams aka Ironheart, and an elder Tony Stark are on the run from the deadly cyborg Cadaverous. Cadaverous has resurrected his mentor and obsession, Minka Tross, by draining a captured Peter Parker of nearly all of his irradiated blood. While this did indeed bring Minka back from the dead, it has also transformed her into a monster, one intent on capturing Ben Parker and using his blood to complete her experiments and return herself to normal. To do so, Cadaverous has taken the corpses of long dead Avengers and turned them into his own cybernetically enhanced zombie foot soldiers.
While Ben and his friends try to make their getaway, the resurrected and rebuilt Hulk lands right in their way, grabbing Riri and tossing her aside with ease. As Thor prepares to murder Tony Stark, Ben decides it's time to act like his dad and jumps into the fight, buying time for everyone to try and make another run for it.
Tony is stopped by a shield to the gut from the remains of Captain America, but before the former champion of America can end his life, Tony is saved with impeccable timing by Riri, suited up in her Ironheart armor and ready to go. While she handles the God of Thunder, Ben finds the time to wrap up Hulk in a cocoon of webs, making it all the easier for Riri to throw the not so jolly green giant right through a massive stone statue, the head of which lands directly on top of an incapacitated zombified Black Widow.
As the team regroups after the fight, and first responders arrive to sort through the wreckage, Tony begins to pick apart what is left of Captain America. In the zombie's head, Tony finds a neurochip, old Stark Industries technology, and is devastated that something he created was used to bring back his old friends as violent and unflinching tools of death.
But before anyone can properly process what is happening there is yet another call to action. Ben is shown a live broadcast from the city of his father dangling from a bridge in the webs of Minka Tross. She has undergone her transformation to its final stage and is now little more than a giant spider herself. With the kind of gusto that is so associated with Spider-Man, Ben swings into the fight. While Peter watches on with tears in his eyes, his son fights as hard as he can, only to fall to one of many of Cadaverous' mechanized creations. While his father has had plenty of close calls and the experience to walk away from them mostly unscathed, Ben is new to this, and it looks like Ben is going to need some saving of his own.