This week marks the start of Marvel Comic’s new Scarlet Spider series by writer Chris Yost and artist Ryan Stegman. The series tagline is “All of the power, none of the responsibility,” an appropriate mockery of Spider-Man’s “With great power comes great responsibility” tagline. The series spins off the events of Spider Island, a major story arc that spanned several Spidey books. Within the story, we were teased images of the Scarlet Spider’s hoodie, formerly worn by Clone Saga star Ben Reilly – however, what we learn was that Ben Reilly, who died on the end of the Green Goblin’s glider, was not coming back, but instead the old clone villain Kaine was.  During the Clone Saga, Kaine was known only as the mysterious person that hunted Ben Reilly, and was then found out later to be another failed clone of Peter Parker, succumbing to the clone degenerative sickness that eventually kills all clones. During his return to Spider-Island, Kaine is cured of this sickness and the madness it once induced upon him. This leads to him donning a Spidey costume and helping Peter Parker throughout the story. At the end of the series Kaine takes off, a Spider-Man costume with him. (more…)