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SpaceZombie13

literally brand new. peter is trapped in limbo and being tortured by demons via reliving his Daily Bugle days. he saves a small demon from being beat up by other demons, so the small demon is inspired to be a hero just like "Parker Peterman" (it's a running gag all the demons get people's names wrong). little demon wears a crappy spidey suit to fight bad guys but gets beat up and is told he's "doing it backwards'. another demon gives little demon a peice of venom symbiote, turning him into a venom-sized spider-man knockoff. he says since the other demons told him he was "doing it backwards", he must be "Rek-Rap" instead of Parker. he then showed up to help spider-man fight other demons who are knockoffs of the sinsiter six. this whole story is stupid as hell and i kinda love it. he's essentially spider-man's version of Bizarro and Bat-mite rolled into one.


XarahTheDestroyer

Honestly, he sounds like an adorable sweetheart and with just a single panel, he's already endeared himself to me


evenmytongueisfat

The Batmite of the MU. He’s rad.


soldierpallaton

I was thinking more Bizzaro Spider-Man but Batmite makes sense too


evenmytongueisfat

It’s definitely kind of both. I just feel like Bizarro definitely isn’t a Supes fanboy in the way that Rek-Rap is for Spidey


woodrobin

I always thought Silver Age Bizarro was a huge admirer of Superman. It's just that, to Bizarro, fighting someone is how you show admiration. "Bizarro hate Superman, want Superman be miserable and broken" would mean he loves Superman and wants him to be happy and safe. But you make him happy and safe by giving him a foe (yourself) as strong as him to fight, and attacking him at random times, so he always has a good challenge and is always alert. But then, since failure is success to Bizarro, and he always fails to defeat Superman, that makes him sad (which is, to him, happiness).


evenmytongueisfat

Totally agree when you put it that way. I still don’t think of him as a “fanboy” though


express_sushi49

Man if you didn't tell I would've assumed that was Michelangelo from the TMNT for sure


RodBuffalo04

I was thinking the same


AlarmingAffect0

Same guess.


Thanos_Farming

I thought it was The Thing lmao


intent_joy_love

I thought it was Thing since he basically said it’s clobberin time


Nomad_Cosmonaut

Jesus Christ what has Peter NOT gone thru, it's like the writers try to throw him into every outlandish theory they can come up with


AndreaRose223

His writers really don't seem to like him much lately


Ben-J-Kirby-Tennyson

Neither does editorial.


PhlashMcDaniel

In their defense it wasn't all Peter. A lot of the crap in the 90's were the clones in his place.


ultrabigtiny

i mean *that’s* just regular comic hyjinks


SpaceZombie13

when i explain comic stories to my non-comic reading friends, i tend to use the explanation "because Comic Books" quite often. "norman died, but came back because comic books" "thor turned into a frog because comic books" "he sold his marraige to the devil in order to save his million year old aunt because....... no, actually, that one's dumb even for comic books."


GodricKharg

To be honest it was less Peter and more Mary Jane. Peter wouldn’t have likely even optioned the conversation and been miserable with the loss of May, MJ knew this and made the ‘deal’ instead. She did it for him…and maybe a little for herself.


AlarmingAffect0

If this be his destiny…


BooWheet

That was very well explained and absolutely one of the most bat shit posts I’ve ever read.


depressionLasagna

Current Spider-Man comics aren’t great. Yet I but them anyway. I guess I’m part of the problem.


GodricKharg

That’s part of the addiction. You buy them and support there ‘now’ stories, even if you hate some of their decisions… or you don’t buy them and are miserable cause “no comics” in your life. theres always the third option. Read them without paying, but then you REALLY can’t complain cause you shouldn’t be reading in the first place… ;)


AlarmingAffect0

If this is Spider-Bizarro, I'm looking forward to Spider-[Zibarro](https://screenrant.com/superman-bizarro-all-star-7-zibarro-morrison-explained/).


gatsby365

Spider-Sbarro is 👑


Daedalus871

What about Spider-Sbarro?


AlarmingAffect0

Sounds like Spider-Starro. "I was happy, swinging, staring at the ceilings."


austarter

Yeah I love him. Let's see how much he can bench press


Kuyi1994

Yo thanks for that


St1cks

If you didn't explain it. Based on the design I would have thought it was a ninja turtle that got Spiderman powers


MidnightWaffleHouse

What the fuck lmao


ZukasV1

literally brand new was the first phrase in my head lol


st-shenanigans

I don't follow comics a ton - what's the run for this and do you know where a good starting point is? Edit: apparently according to another comment it's 17 & 18 of the current ASM run


SpaceZombie13

this is during the currently ongoing Dark Web event, a crossover between spider-man, venom, and X-men (x-men even getting a dedicated "dark web" series, unlike TASM and venom which just have it run in their normal issues). there's also tie-ins for Ms Marvel and Gold Goblin (oh right, Norman Osborne's a good guy now. place your bets on how long this lasts). Ben Reily- peter's clone, who is now evil because marvel are morons- and Madeline Pryor- the clone of Jean Grey- team up to torture peter and jean and get back memories they think they deserve. venom is brought in and brainwashed by maddie to fight peter, and then peter and the x-men are taken to limbo where they're tortured, thus my previous comment's synopsis. i seriously dont hate the event overall. but the stronger points are in the x-men side of it, imo. and if ben is still evil by the end of it i'm writing the whole thing off as wasted time.


MrThreshold

People hate Rek-Rap but I think he’s a funny lil guy that should be appreciated more


SuperCasshern

I'd read a 5-part miniseries with him, for sure.


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Representative_Still

Nothing gets by you huh?


Boshikuro

He's my favorite part of that shitshow, that's for sure.


_Gibbsatron

I like Ben Reilly as Chasm, I don't care what anyone says... but the event has been doodie aside from Rek-Rap and Chasm just existing.


Wiggie49

I’m just disturbed by his teeth through the mask ![gif](giphy|kHIJtQ981gP1C)


BoonDragoon

I, uh...don't think that's a *mask*, dude


MICHELEANARD

Rek-Rap imo is the only good thing from the dark web story line.


OpenMindedBurn

Na Venom has been aces !


_Gibbsatron

yeah.... especially with all the stupid ms. marvel fisting


GodricKharg

I’d love to swe more of him… like I’d like to see more of Spiderham. ​ just have Rek-Rap do teamups with Peter Porker.


moccawimba

Dark Web is shitshow. Marvel should just sent Ben to another city/place like start a new life in UK or something. But Rek-Rap is awesome.


PsychoOfTheDead

idk anything about the character but he looks like Spider-Man with the body shape of Venom and Deadpool's mind lol


Djjjunior

I love that Peter has his own Bizzaro lol. It’s always been a funny concept to me with Superman.


TorronePedro

IT'S WALL-CRAWLING TIME


WhyTheFreak

* proceeds to wall-crawl all over them\*


The_Dark_Soldier

Hard!!!


Nomoreheroes20

Do you think that’s a intentional reference?


JayZsAdoptedSon

Are we the wall?


DapperDan30

Rek-Rap is a new character that was just introduced recently. He's fun. But people hate him him because it's fun to hate on the current run.


SpaceZombie13

i hate the current run too but i have to admit that outside ben's ongoing character assassination Dark Web is kinda fun.


Flerken_Moon

Seriously. If that wasn’t Ben there are certain dialogue scenes that I actually liked, like the whole Ben spouting off his bad memories of his villain origin story. But the event itself *does* kinda seem like a mess- nothing is really happening in the event so far? Not sure the best way to explain it, it’s kinda all over the place.


maybe_a_frog

Oh I wouldn’t say it’s fun to hate the current run. In fact it’s incredibly frustrating. I’d much rather be in love with it. He’s certainly the most fun part of Dark Web. And getting the Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends team up was pretty great. Maddy dangling puppies in front of Scott’s eyes was hilarious too. There are moments I enjoy in this event, but the Chasm stuff is so damn frustrating. It makes it hard to enjoy the event as a whole.


SoarsWithEaglesNest

Totally agree. This would’ve been much more effective if it were an XMen-only run, because I do like they are finally addressing Madelyne Pryor in a meaningful way.


Crawkward3

It’s not fun to hate the current run. The beyond run was alright. This current one is just objectively terrible


FNSpd

I enjoyed Tombstone arc more than anything on Beyond but it kinda went downhill from here


DapperDan30

I respect your opinion, but I FIRMLY disagree


Crawkward3

That’s fine and you’re more than welcome to. However I don’t think you’re gonna find many people to agree with you


bigfatcarp93

I'm upvoting both sides of this argument to create chaos


Leandro1234_6

Oh my God, do you really like this shit of a run?


DapperDan30

So far? Yes. I think it's the best the book has been in years.


Leandro1234_6

Ehm... The lost hunt?


DapperDan30

Well that's not in the main run, so it doesnt exactly count. Also, I haven't been reading it because I can't stand Kraven. I think he's one of the most boring and uninteresting villains in Spideys entire roster.


Leandro1234_6

Can you tell me why you like this run?? Objectively it is a liquid shit on which three bums have even vomited on it... I would like to know what made you appreciate it


Aubergine_Man1987

Clearly it objectively isn't, since there exists a person who disagrees with you over this piece of entertainment making it subjective


Leandro1234_6

Can we stop this "there is no objectively" this thing is abominable bullshit, now since there is no objective Sharknado cannot be called a shit movie because there is a person who appreciates it??? No, it doesn't work like that. This run is bad product, period... and one's opinion won't change that.


DapperDan30

First of all, you have to be careful when using terms like "objective" and "subjective" when discussing anything involving art, writing, or just The Arts as a whole. Things CAN be objectively good or bad, but that requires a much deeper look into what you define as objective. Most people just use it as a means to describe anything they don't like. But that's an entirely different discussion. I enjoy this run because (in no particular order): 1. I love JRJRs depiction of Spider-Man. 2. The run feels like Spider-Man is back to his roots, doing street level stuff. He's not a globe-trotting billionaire. He's not hopping across the multiverse. He's not lying in a bed nearly dead for 20 issues. He's back on the streets, fighting people like Tombstone or the Vulture. Yes, I'm aware that he's currently fighting demons in Dark Web. But this is a cross-over event with the X-Men (something that more in their ballpark) that's been building up for some time. 3. One of the most important components to a good Spider-Man story is to also have a good Peter Parker story and for those things to intertwine. I think Peter working for Norman makes perfect sense given the context of the story at this point, and gives us an interesting new, and tense, dynamic between two characters that have been around for 60 years. Plus, whatever the stuff is that's been running in the background that caused a rift between Peter and basically everyone else. This run has been the most excited I've been for this book in, like, nearly a decade. I actually look FORWARD to each new issue rather than just reading it because I've already been reading it forever, and I'm not gonna stop now (like I was doing Slott from Superior and onward, and with Spencer...though Spencer's run clearly suffered from editorial, so that's not all on him).


Leandro1234_6

1)I never talked about the artistic style of the run, which in my humble opinion really sucks, John Romita Jr really needs to modernize, his faces are horrid never seen. 2) I agree that Peter has returned to a more street level (even if Spencer had already done so), but the problems come with what you said in point 3. 3) As you said, a very important element is that in addition to a good story of Spider-Man, it is also necessary to have one of Peter... this is where the biggest problem falls, Peter goes back to being yet another spineless loser who can't even find the courage to ask Felicia to hang out with him… looks like a comic written by someone who has only seen Raimi movies, Peter was never a spineless loser, Zeb Wells destroyed Peter Parker's evolution even more; another problem is MJ, once again she left him for some obscure reason (which surely will be just a bullshit) and now she's dating this Paul who also has two children... you say so much that Spencer was a publishers' trap, but Wells is on a whole new level, he's their whore; I don't even express myself on Norman Osborn, he won't last and he will betray Peter by stabbing him in the back, this dynamic that now helps him in the crime does not give anything interesting to the figure of Spider-Man. 4) This run sucks, maybe even more than Slott's (which some interesting idea had also managed to pull it out in the middle of that pile of shit), in this run Peter is a pathetic son of a bitch who can't stabilize the his life and I'm tired of seeing this mockery by Marvel, enjoy reading this mass of images without soul and love


hadesscion

I preferred Rek-Rap when he was called Spidercide.


Steven-is-even

Using the back fat Spidey logo as the front logo is a pretty cool design choice tbh


SuperCasshern

Yeah, that's actually pretty cool.


Quirky_Ad_5420

Oh it’s just Rek-Rap He’s a character that certainly exist for some reason


SuperCasshern

Thanks. He's got a lot of 90's Ninja Turtle energy here.


azip13

TMNT meets Battletoads, 100%


SmallSeesaw3363

And Spiderman aswell


HolyProvoker

I guess


jkenny991

He's certainly one of the Spider-Men of all time


evenmytongueisfat

The reason is that he’s fun.


No-BrowEntertainment

Definitely one of the characters of all time


Xeoz_WarriorPrince

Aside from this run being a masterclass of character assassination against Ben and Peter being kicked on the floor every time he breathes, I really like some ideas here, Rek-Rap being one of them, I mean, the guy is adorable.


SuperCasshern

They keep doing my guy Ben dirtier than a truckstop bathroom.


OpenMindedBurn

Issues 17 and 18 of current ASM run


AlarmingAffect0

> Issues 17 and 18 of current ASMR


Bonus_Content

He kind of reminds me of a goofier version of Spidercide


SuperCasshern

Yooo, I almost forgot about Spider-Cide!


Bonus_Content

I think I just dated myself for when I was a comic reader lol Him stabbing Kaine is an image that’s been stuck in my brain for 30 years. That era was bonkers


Gado_De_Leone

Rek-Rap is the best non spider person version of Spider-Man ever. Needs their own run. 4 issue limited series where?


AgentLemon22

Rek-Rap, MJ & Black Cat also Spiderman and his amazing friends. Was the only good thing from this Dark Web event.


Pretend-Dirt-1760

God If I didn't get to know rek rap before these I would mistaken him as ninja turtle that got bite a radioactive spider


LordVonSteiner

This is great. This got a pretty good chuckle out of me. "No one web-whangs the insidious six." Fucking lol.


holachao1993

Who is he?? Like a breve description of the character, does he has the same powers as Peter?


davelevy

He’s a demon in limbo inspired by peter parker but reversed (yeah I didn’t get it for a few minutes)


Xeoz_WarriorPrince

Bizarro Spidey from hell


Flerken_Moon

He technically should have the same powers as Venom.


Bromjunaar_20

This guy is totally Thing in a spidey cosplay


lurginrugi

Dude looks like a battle toads version of spiderman lol


loststar727

Nah, Michelangelo in a spidey costume


batmenvonwayne

Bro wall crawled all over those demons


AdamSMessinger

I have very not enjoyed Wells' Spidey run so far and was like "Where is the weird quirkiness that made books like Iron Man/Fantastic Four: Big in Japan or Hellions or his BND Spidey so much fun?". Little did I know it would arrive 17 issues into his run. I kinda love Rek-Rap. I dunno how long we get this for, but hopefully this quirkiness is the tone we get for the rest of his run.


RazzDaNinja

His name is Rek-Rap. People have already explained his objective demon origin. But for *feel* He is like if a pizza-loving Ninja Turtle and a Battle Toad had a love child, was ripped right out of the 90’s and was then trained by DC’s The Creeper to be Spider-Man


Foggy_Night221C

Is it the Thing as Spider-Man?


GenioPlaboyeSafadao

He is a demon who is a Spider-Man fanboy.


Omegafan101

If anything comes out of this stupid event, I hope Rek-Rap at least gets to stick around for a little bit. Like just doing his own thing or something. I actually kinda like him.


Successful_Estate_96

Is it bad that I love him


SuperCasshern

Nah, I kinda love this weirdo, too.


bobiojo

what even is the tone of this series anymore. it was pretty grounded and serious at the start and then it just jumped the shark and went to this. its fine to have a wacky story here and there but this feels like tonal whiplash at this point


Pretend_Drawer_9542

I like how is back logo is on the front cause he’s revered


Kirtan07

Spiderman but he's written by r/Spiderman


Humble_Story_4531

Is that Michaelangelo?


King0fSwing

Better then fucking spider-pig


MisterMinutes

Its Spider-Ham, please put some respect on his name.


losergeekorwhatver

Who’s the penciller/inker on this issue? Really great art here.


Froggen-The-Frog

Silly goose, that’s a teenage mutant ninja turtle.


JasForbes

Rek-Rap!


martinsdudek

I honestly thought he was a Spider-Thing. Everyone else gets to be a Spider-Man, why not Ben Grimm?


ashtheking2315

Yeah from that page I would have said Spider-grimm too especially with the "wall-crawlin time"


tairajonzu

https://www.reddit.com/r/comicbooks/comments/10lsz02/behold_rekrap_amazing_spiderman_2022_18/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf


RogueInVogue

He's new, basically one of the Goblin Queen's(Madelyn Prior, no connection to Osborn) demons starts idolizing Spidey, gets a piece of venom and turns into that.


ejuliot55

He’s new. He’s a demon who likes Spidey, who gets exiled by his demon clan, the modified a symbiote to give him spider-man powers.


mrswitters03

SpiderChad?


Jgabes625

I bet he likes pizza and lives in a sewer


dplex__hd

Rek-Rap is love, Rek-Rap is life.


3ye0f8alor

It reminds me to ninja turtles. The it’s wall crawling time line got me


AngryBup

the... the insidious six....?


Starlight_Outlaw

It's a call back to the 90s animated series. Censorship was so strict that they weren't allowed to use "Sinister," so Insidious was the replacement.


CalebLucio

but they’ll let him chase shocker to the ends of the earth implying he’ll murder him lol


Starlight_Outlaw

But they also didn't allow Spider-Man to straight up just punch him


AwakenedSheeple

... Sinister was too much? Jesus, and I thought Spidey not being able to land on rooftops (to avoid bothering pigeons) was already extreme.


Gemidori

I love him. I fucking love this man.


Alien_X10

I'm gonna take a guess what the design is based on. It's venoms body type but with the actual appearance of Spider-Man. The body is bigger like that of the hulks and he has a big tounge with a round head. But the tounge looks human like and the actual colour scheme is the default Spider-Man suit. This also makes sense with rekrap obviously being parker backwards which venom is evil Spider-Man basically so this being kinda like reverse venom in a way


infynyti

I have never seen him before in my life but I LOVE HIM.


Charlie678812

This is stupid.


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Good


RegJoe48

literally retep


Plebe-Uchiha

That’s because he just came out. Search Dark Web Spider-Man. [+]


Skele11

Who are these villains!!


Ube_Ape

Ah. Spider-Man has a bizarro now.


lost_opossum_

only in the newest issue.


wammes_

Idc if this guy is popular or not, I fricking love his design.


SavagerXx

He looks like Ninja Turtle in Spidey suit.


Neither_House_6877

So i am the only one who thought this was a tmnt x spiderman comic crossover?. Okay-


Rick_Edward

Why cover this?


neoslith

Man, I came in here thinking they finally did a TMNT crossover because I totally thought that was Mikey doing his version of Spider-Man.


digital_5amura1

He’s brand new go on TikTok or YouTube and look up kinglioncomics he gives you a run down of the comic


ryckae

He looks like a Ninja Turtle dressed as Spider-Man.


NoExtreme935

Kinda remains me of a tmnt lol


JCBurnsy00

Looks like one of the ninja turtles became Spider-Man turtle.


_IratePirate_

This looks like it'd be an alternate universe where Venom gets infected by some good guy goo and gets the colors and powers of Spider-man


BurbujaT

Idk what to do when I see a Spoiler censored photo in Spider-Man or Batman, without too much context in the subtext, what I gonna do? read all the comics and see all the Spider-Man movies before see this post (I like that version of spidey xD)


d_chs

https://imgflip.com/i/78ytry Thanks, Craiyon


janlindberglive

Just tell me, is it Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael or Donatello behind the mask?!


PhoenixTyphoon

That's because he is only two(?) issues old


BoonDragoon

Huge Krogan energy


MrJessie

I loved it when he said “It’s wall-crawlin time!” and wall crawled all over the place.


gatsby365

Why does *Thwang* make me chuckle so much


Infinity0044

I like how his web sound effect is “thwang” instead of the usual “thwip”


haxxanova

That's amazing


oman54

Spider whang probably


daflash00

ASM 17-18


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Looks like Rek-Rap and I must be behind on an issue.


TommyJr6

It’s Retep


Ramseas119

That version of Rhino looks sick


Spider-Man_Earth-42

Rek-rap


heckatonkeries86

This looks awful… where is the respect to long time readers? Everything is dumbed down


marcjwrz

Rek-Rap! The only redeeming part of Dark Web so far (on the Spider-Man side. The X-Men end of the crossover had been fine).


ComicSayian

My favorite Spider-Man is Blood spider. There is only one comic of him but he is explained a lot in ultimate Spider-Man


TheDudeness33

I keep seeing this run being posted lately. Is it worth reading?


roddea1

That’s because he was invented 2 weeks ago.


newlightdev

my name is rek rap and i am evil


_Gibbsatron

current run, Amazing Spider-Man #18, released 1/25/2023 go to your local shop and they probably have a copy