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The events of Non-Stop Spider-Man have just spiraled into Peter Parker’s latest shocking transformation, and he is more than happy to share.
WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for Savage Spider-Man #1, available now from Marvel.
Peter Parker has undergone some truly unbelievable transformations over the past sixty years, yet nothing could compare to what he has just gone through in the pages of Savage Spider-Man #1 by Joe Kelly, Gerardo Sandoval, Victor Nava, Chris Sotomayor, and VC’s Travis Lanham. The titular hero has been drugged and left stranded alongside one of the Marvel Universe’s most despicable villains, yet it isn’t Baron Zemo that anyone should be worried about. Rather, it is the fact that Spider-Man himself is now more spider than man, and he isn’t the only one.
What began with Peter Parker trying to stop the spread of Baron Zemo’s dangerous drug A-Plus in the pages of 2021’s Non-Stop Spider-Man has culminated in a vicious fight for survival. Unfortunately, it is Spider-Man who is having any trouble making his way through the dense forests and deadly inhabitants of the Isle of the Damned. After being subjected to A-Plus for himself, Peter Parker emerged as a hulking, horrifying monstrosity complete with razor sharp claws and arachnid-like fangs, though they are hardly the most devastating development. When Zemo and Spider-Man are cornered by their pursuers, the latter decides that the time for running is over, and instead unveils his latest evolution in the form of viscous red webs spewed forth from his mandibles to take control of his pursuers in what might be the worst way possible.
While the tortured, animalistic subjects who had been hounding Spider-Man and Zemo were already terrifying on their own, their transformation into the web-faced zombies under the former’s control is genuinely unsettling. Peter Parker may not be any stranger to undergoing such grotesque evolutions himself, but never before has he been the one to take hold of others in any similar manner. Then again, the A-Plus he was injected with was never intended to produce as drastic of changes in the hero as it has. That being the case, there really is no telling how much further Savage Spider-Man could push this new ability, nor if he will be the one left cleaning up the mess that he unwittingly created.
There is no doubt that by the end of this story, Spider-Man will have somehow reverted back to his original form, though whether that be by way of a cure or simply the drugs in his system wearing off doesn’t matter nearly as much as what he leaves behind on the Isle of the Damned. The enigmatic Immaculatum who have been behind the grander scheme at play don’t seem to be bothered by any of these recent developments, yet their understanding of what is happening under their watch is also highly questionable. Whatever reaction with the A-Plus caused Peter to become the monster he is now clearly wasn’t intentional, meaning there isn’t any way of gauging its effects on himself or others. The changes Spider-Man has undergone might wear off, but what happens to the people he has taken hold of is murky at best, and at worst involves a whole lot of Spider-Zombies making their way towards the mainland.
If nothing else, Peter’s transformation and the changes he has subjected his pursuers to will help illuminate just what A-Plus is capable of. With any luck, it will also prove to be the impetus behind putting a stop to whatever the Immaculatum and Zemo have planned. Mad science and super villainous schemes certainly have a habit of going off the rails, although it is hard to imagine any of those involved in this latest one had seen a monstrous Spider-Zombie army coming from it. And if Zemo can’t undo some of the harm he has helped spread, those same creatures might be the end of him.
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