WARNING: This article contains spoilers for Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #311 by Sean Ryan, Juan Frigeri, Jason Keith and VC's Travis Lanham, on sale now.
If you were a reader of Marvel's Spider-Geddon #1, then you know the Inheritors are back and have already inflicted significant damage to the Web Warriors by killing Spider-Noir and Spider-UK. Though we saw heroes like the Superior Spider-Man, Spider-Gwen and Miles Morales take part in the first battle, one character in particular was missing from the melee, and that's the Peter Parker Spider-Man of Earth-616.
We've been told Miles Morales is the star of Spider-Geddon, but you can't have a Spider-Man-themed event series and not have Peter play a role in it. Readers didn't have to wait long, as he officially swings into Spider-Geddon in the tie-in comic, Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #311. However, unfortunately for Spider-Man, his foray involved a one-on-one encounter with his old Inheritor foe, Morlun.
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Superior Octopus #1, Spider-Geddon #0 and #1 revealed Otto Octavius has been using the Inheritors' clone technology to create himself a vast supply of cloned bodies. What Otto didn't realize is this allowed the Inheritors a means to escape from the radioactive Earth the Web Warriors trapped them on. Now occupying these cloned bodies, Morlun, Jennix and Verna are the first of the vampiric family to be regenerated.
With a new lease on life and revenge on the brain, Morlun ditches his siblings to get payback on Spider-Man, who has managed to evade him on three separate occasions. The first came in 2001’s Amazing Spider-Man #30. The second took place in 2005-2006's "Spider-Man: The Other" crossover between Amazing Spider-Man, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man and Marvel Knights Spider-Man. The last altercation was in the 2014 Spider-Verse event which left the Inheritors trapped in another dimension. Morlun has taken all three losses personally, and travels from San Francisco, CA to New York for a final rematch.
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Using his ability to track spiders, Morlun is able to find a Spider-Man who is exhausted from stopping robbers and bad guys all day. If there were ever a perfect opportunity for Morlun to finally defeat and feast on Spider-Man, this would be it. What comes next is a city-wide beatdown as Morlun leaves Spider-Man a beaten and bloody mess, with his only hope of victory lying with one of his newest allies.
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Black-And-Blue Spider-Man
Interestingly, Spider-Man doesn't seem too surprised or alarmed to find Morlun free. Perhaps it can be blamed on his exhaustion, but considering the type of threat that Morlun represents, Peter should be freaking out. Instead, he mentally notes how fast and strong Morlun is as he takes blow after blow.
Spider-Man does recognize that he needs help and calls up J. Jonah Jameson to retrieve his interdimensional travel watch. The device is what the Web Warriors use to communicate with one another across alternate dimensions. All he needs Jonah to do is find the watch in the mess that he calls an apartment.
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While Jonah slips past Peter's roommate, Randy Robertson, to look for the watch, Spider-Man continues taking a beating of a lifetime from Morlun. Their fight goes from building rooftops to a construction site to a mattress warehouse of all places. The last locale at least offers Spider-Man a nice, comfy mattress to land on after being knocked through a wall. Throughout it all, however, Spider-Man never loses his sense of humor, constantly talking through it all.
Jonah eventually found the dimensional device among Peter's things, and the two decided to meet up in a neutral place like Central Park. Jonah got to Central Park but couldn't immediately find Spider-Man -- that is until he came crashing through the treeline, crashing to the ground with a thud.
"You look like dropped lasagna," Jonah tells Spider-Man, to which he replied, "Specific." Jonah can see the state that Spider-Man is in and wants to help, but all he wants is the watch and for Jonah to get as far away as he can. Before Spider-Man can activate his watch, Morlun appears crushes it on Spider-Man's wrist, thereby eliminating his way of calling for reinforcements.
So not only is Spider-Man in danger, but he's also dragged Jonah into this Spider-Geddon mess. Jonah should be used to the dangers that come with being associated with Spider-Man, after he was kidnapped and almost killed by Norman Osborn in his Red Goblin persona. Morlun has proved on numerous occasions he has no qualms with murdering innocent people along with spiders. For Jonah's sake, he won't look black-and-blue like Spider-Man when the Spider-Geddon tie-in continues in Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #312.
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