Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Just the Facts
- J. Jonah Jameson (Rejoins Daily Bugle)
- Jared (Behind the scenes)
Antagonists:
- ⏴ Tarantula (Anton Miguel Rodriquez)
- Hood's Gang (First appearance)
- Edgar Persky (First appearance)
- Jimmy Coletti (First appearance)
- The Hood (Parker Robbins) (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Superior Spider-Man (Otto Octavius) (Referenced)
- Underground (Mentioned)
- Tinkerer (Phin Mason) (Mentioned) (Deceased)
- Dios/God (Invoked)
- F.E.A.S.T. (Mentioned)
- Uncle Ben (Mentioned)
- Hades (Invoked)
- NYPD
- Officer Lopez (First appearance)
- Officer Hayden (First appearance)
- Officer Donahue (First appearance)
- Shadow Demons (Mentioned)
- Mister Negative (Martin Li) (Mentioned)
- Sandman (Flint Marko) (Mentioned)
- Wilson Fisk (Mentioned)
- Scorpion (Mac Gargan) (Mentioned)
- Rhino (Aleksei Sytsevich) (Mentioned)
- Norman Osborn (Mentioned)
- Doctor Octopus (Dr. Otto Octavius) (Mentioned)
- The Foreigner (Mentioned)
- Eliza Robbins (First appearance; dies)
- Jefferson Davis (Vision or hallucination) (Deceased)
- Aunt May (Vision or hallucination) (Deceased)
- The Daily Bugle
- Tony (First appearance)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Spiders (Mentioned)
- Dinosaurs (Mentioned)
- Zombies (Mentioned)
- Demons (Mentioned)
- Tigers (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth-1048
- Earth
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Queens
- Forest Hills
- Ingram Street
- Peter Parker's House
- Luxe Car Repair (First appearance)
- Ingram Street
- Manhattan
- Empire State University (Mentioned)
- Murray Hill
- Forest Hills
- Queens
- New York City
- New York
- Symkaria (Mentioned)
- Soviet Union (Mentioned)
- United States of America
- Earth
- Hell (Mentioned)
Items:
- Spider-Man's Suit and Web-Shooters
- Devil's Breath (Mentioned)
- Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man App
- The Hood's Cloak (First appearance)
- Lifeline Tablet (First appearance)
- Spider-Bots (Mentioned)
Synopsis for 1st story
Mary-Jane Watson is being interviewed by J.Jonah Jameson on his podcast in an attempt to promote her new book documenting the war in Symkaria, which hasn't been selling very well. Jameson keeps self-promoting and making references to his glory days and implying that Mary-Jane ins't cut out for journalism, she then tells him off for not being nearly as good of a journalist as he used to be and has just become and old man spouting nonsense and fear-mongering. The interview is then interrupted by the two Spider-Man fighting the Tarantula crashing into the interview room, which causes Jameson to run away.
Later at Peter's house, which is Aunt May's old house in Queens, something that she left him after her passing, he and Mary-Jane are discussing the disappointing returns of her book, and Peter's attempts to get a teaching degree to get a new job, and him struggling to make the mortgage, as May took out a new loan to keep the F.E.A.S.T. centre open during the events of the first game. Peter proposes Mary-Jane move in with him, but she turns him down, claiming that her job requires her to be in Manhattan, and that is has nothing to do with their relationship, but Peter takes it hard either way. Miles then arrives saying that he plans to go to college, but can't decide what he wants to major in.
The three then go to an electronics store down the road to get some gear to upgrade their gadgets, but find that it's been broken into. Once they enter, they find a group of criminals dressed in cloaks, as they engage, they seemingly disappear, but it's revealed they are using cloaking tech, stolen from one of the Tinkerer's caches and repurposed for themselves. The crooks get away and Peter feels that they've all been feeling off their game due to the various problems they've been having.
They later track them to another robbery they are committing in a jewellery store, and manage to capture them, but are then freed by their leader, The Hood, who they fear as they believe he has magical powers.
Peter reels in the failure, and admits to Mary-Jane that her not wanting to move in with him hit him harder that he made out, but she explains her situation again and he understands, just that he'll need time to accept it. Researching the previous crimes, they track the hood to a warehouse on the docks, and find that he's committing his crimes to get money and resources to help keep his sick mother alive. His most recently acquired find, the Lifeline Tablet, will supposedly cure her completely, he invokes a spell and while it seems to activate, it does nothing to her. The Spider-Men interrupt, and the Hood engages them, however, his mother interrupts claiming that she doesn't want to go on living and is ready to die, and that all she wanted was to spend time with her son with the little time she has left, but he was too stubborn to do so. Realising what he's done, the Hood surrenders himself to the Spider-Men, so long as he can be with his mother in her last moments, which they agree to.
She eventually passes, and the Hood surrenders himself to the police who arrive. Peter apologies to Mary-Jane for his stubborn behaviour, realising he was no better than the Hood, and she forgives him, admitting that the failing book sales were affecting her as well, and Miles has decided to take up Music Technology at ESU. Mary-Jane then enters the Daily Bugle to begin work for the day, unbeknownst to her, Jameson is finishing off a deal where he will be repurchasing the Bugle so he can run it like he wants to, inspired by Mary-Jane's rant about how he's become detached to real journalism.
Solicit Synopsis
When the story opens, MJ and Peter are back from Symkaria, and MJ has just finished her first book, “Perilous: A Journey Into War-Torn Symkaria.” But unfortunately, sales aren’t going well, and she’s been forced to go on J. Jonah Jameson’s “Just The Facts” podcast to try and drum up support for her book. As their ideologies clash and the interview starts to go south, the Spider-Men literally crash the interview while fighting The Tarantula (a familiar face from Spider-Geddon #0). Miles and Peter wrap up the Tarantula, which also wraps up MJ’s disastrous interview.
As the story continues, we see several worlds colliding in the lives of Miles, Peter, and MJ. Miles, a student at Brooklyn Visions Academy, sees all of his friends solidifying their plans for college—but he is feeling left out. He’s been so focused on other things; he hasn’t had time to think about the future. There are plenty of directions he could go but trying to pick the ‘right’ one is overwhelming and paralyzing.
Meanwhile, Peter is back in Queens, living in the house he grew up in. But he’s drowning in bills. May had mortgaged the house to keep F.E.A.S.T. running during the events of Marvel’s Spider-Man, and now Peter is left with the responsibility of finding a new job in order to make the payments. MJ would make a perfect housemate to help with the mortgage, but she needs to stay in the city for her job as an associate editor at the Daily Bugle. At least that’s what she tells Peter. There is unspoken tension between them, as both struggle to take the next step in their relationship.
On top of all that, there’s a new gang in town, and they appear to be using…magic? Our heroes work together to track down and confront members of this gang, using their super powers to uncover the gang’s leader: The Hood! This new Super Villain appears to have supernatural abilities that defy mere webs and fists. While Miles, Peter, and MJ attempt to balance their responsibilities to the city, and each other, they keep coming back to one of the main themes of this action-packed issue: is magic real?