Ultimate Spider-Man: Carnage, Part 2
Issue: #61
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Pencils: Mark Bagley
Inker: Scott Hana
Colors: J.D.Smith

Aunt May tries to wake Peter up for school, but he’s running a fever. His aunt tells Gwen Stacy to pick up Peter’s homework and keeps him home. At Empire State University, researcher Ben Reilly is checking into the lab, and finds that Conners has fallen asleep next to his microscope. Reilly takes a look through the microscope and is astonished at what he sees. He wakes Conners up to ask him about it. Conners claims it’s nothing, just the start of something he’s trying. He swears Reilly to secrecy about it.

Peter is watching television when the phone rings. It’s Conners, who asks Peter to meet him and discuss “something important”. Peter drags himself to the meeting. Conners admits that he looked at Peter’s DNA and shows him the results. He wants Peter’s permission to run some experiments on it. He thinks this might lead to cures for conditions like diabetes or Alzheimer’s disease. Peter asks how Conners will explain where the sample came from, and Conners says he can claim it was the side effect of another experiment or a lab accident. Finally, after some thought, Peter agrees.

Two months later, Spider-Man is taking on the Punisher and another man in costume. The Punisher was a police officer whose family was killed by other cops and who is now a vigilante. Even though Spider-Man feels sorry for the guy, he still knocks him out and ties him up. The other man offers Spider-Man $20,000 to swing him out of the area. When the police arrive a few minutes later, both men are webbed up in the middle of the street, with the money stuck to the robber’s knee.

Peter goes back to Conners to get his injuries treated. He asks how the experiments on his DNA are going, and Conners offers to show him at a later date. After Peter leaves, Conners enters his lab. Reilly is watching the experiment in progress. It’s entering its next incubation stage. As the two men turn away, we see something that looks like a screaming child floating in a green fluid.

Submitted By: Seldes Katne