Amazing Spider-Man #15 Recap

The Spider-Verse is over (for now…) and all that’s left is the fallout. Welcome to the Amazing Spider-Man #15 recap!

We open to a spread of the victorious web warriors, where Spider-UK is opening up a portal to Earth-982, May Parker’s home. Peter gives May one final pep talk, calling her one of the most spectacular people he knows, before she leaps through the portal.

She runs into Uncle Ben, who had escaped the battle with the Inheritors alongside May’s brother, Benjy. Ben gives her some good news, Benjy is safe and with some neighbors who couldn’t let him go. They open the door to the neighbor’s house to discover that May’s mother Mary Jane and her boyfriend Wes Westin survived Daemos’s attack, though her father unfortunately didn’t make it. Uncle Ben decides to stick around and be the grandfather no Ben Parker ever got to be, and as Mary Jane pulls out Peter’s old Spider-Man uniform to give to May, the gift completes her growth from Spider-Girl, to Spider-Woman.

We go back to the Web Warriors, where the Spiders are teleporting off to their respective universes; Spider-Ham, Spider-India, Miles and Jessica, Ultimate TV show Spider-Man, and Spider-Punk all port away, with Punk reminding UK just how many Spider-Men Karn has killed and to keep an eye on him.

Finally, it seems that Miguel O’hara will get to go back home to the year 2099 when all of their spider-senses fire off simultaneously. They run into the great hall to find the Superior Spider-Man slicing through the skeins of the great web with Morlun’s sacrificial knife. Superior reveals that he knows of his final fate, and is destroying the fabric of reality to reject what fate has in store for him.

We cut briefly to the Columbia University Medical Center on Earth-616 where the comatose Julia Carpenter (the current Madame Web) awakens in a fit, realizing that with every strand of the great web being severed, she can see nothing.

Back in the hall, UK explains that the portals are fading fast with every strand Superior cuts, and Peter urges Miguel and Spider-Gwen to go back to their original universes before time runs out. As Peter and the other 616 spiders attempt to take out Superior (though Peter is greatly weakened after Karn ripped out some of his life force), Miguel and Gwen go home, with Miguel explaining that the ending of the story that they’re about to miss is simple: Superior goes to the future, he goes back, he loses, and the good guys win, the end.

The 616 Spiders tussle with Superior, and Anya reads the etchings on Morlun’s knife, which reads, “there shall always be a master weaver spinning at the center of the web.” Silk starts to believe that its her destiny to take the master weaver’s place -although it would mean assuming the role until her death. Silk decides to take the job, and unmasks the weaver to reveal a face she has never seen before; a face that looks like an older version of Karn’s as he takes off his helmet in the next panels.

Meanwhile the fight between Peter and Otto continues, before Peter gains the upper hand, striking Otto down and declaring that he lost the day he finally accepted that peter was THE SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN! Karn uses his two pronged staff to unlock the weaver’s armor, puts on the mask, and using the essences of the totems he has consumed, takes the place of the former master weaver. Superior finally surrenders, but he ominously activates a program through his Anna Maria Marconi computer, who replies “entering sleep mode for 100 days and counting.”

With Karn ready to repair the web, he explains that while it is repairing, their spider-senses will be diminished. Peter and Karn force Otto back through a portal, throttling him back to the events of the Superior Spider-Man #19, where he forgets the events of the Spider-Verse and resumes the timeline we read during the Superior Spider-Man run.

Karn stabilizes the connection to Earth-616, but informs Spider-UK that his dimension, Earth-833 is simply gone, a consequence of the incursions that have been wiping out realities (see New Avengers). As UK laments the fact, Karn checks in on the other Inheritors, opening a portal that shows his former family stuck in a bunker on the radioactive planet, feasting on the many spiders that reside within. This is a fate that Peter thinks is more than they deserve, as he looks upon his fallen brother Kaine, slain in his spider form, and reminds them that they lost a lot of good Spider-Men.

UK realizes that many of the worlds will now be without those Spider-(Wo)Men, and declares that he will travel to any Earth that needs a Spider-Man -and will be joined by Anya who volunteers herself to the mission along with her “weird totem knowledge.” Karn declares them the warriors of the great web, a team designed to mend the severed skeins and fix time and space -and we see the images of five other Spider-Totems who will join them in the upcoming Secret Wars: Spider-Verse spinoff.

Karn opens up a portal and the 616 spiders finally return to their home; as Anya and UK walk off for some deserved R&R, we see two small panels focused on Kaine’s fallen husk, and an arm ripping through it from within (the return of Kaine?). Back on 616, Silk, Jessica, and Peter realize that they’ve been gone for days. With a new found confidence gained from leading an army against unkillable vampires, Peter swings off to run his company and take on the world.

On the final page we find him musing over the crazy events that have taken place, and wondering how he’s going to go back and deal with the small stuff -when a cry for help directs him to a purse snatcher who he promptly takes down in classic Spider-Man fashion. The issue ends with a rare, thankful citizen, who surprises Peter with her thanks and makes him wonder if he’s in the right dimension.

Check out Whatever a Spider Can’s other Spider-Verse comic book recaps and reviews

Amazing Spider-Man #14 Recap and Review
Amazing Spider-Man #13 Recap and Review
Amazing Spider-Man #12 Recap and Review

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