RedStoryWriter
Months after the destruction of Oscorp Tower, New York is healing, and Peter Parker is thriving. For the first time since the radioactive spider bite that made him Spider-Man, his life is holding together. He has left the Daily Bugle behind and is drawing a respectable salary as a scientist. Best of all, Felicia Hardy knows exactly who he is and keeps choosing him anyway. They are in love. Peter is happier than he has ever been.
Everything changes when Dr. Connors tests their miracle on himself.
The scientist's arm grows back, but so does something deep within his DNA that science was never meant to wake. Transformed into a monstrous Lizard that tears through New York, Spider-Man has no choice but to hunt his own mentor and bring him down.
But the victory has teeth. Something in the Lizard's bite does not leave Peter's blood. His strength spikes. His dreams turn hungry, and Spider-Man's suit starts to feel like it's holding back more than a man.
As Peter hunts for a cure, the work is complicated by a new colleague at Empire State University. Michael Morbius is brilliant, ambitious, and seemingly obsessed with unseating Peter as Dr. Connors' favored assistant. Felicia does not want him, and Peter knows that. But knowing is not the same as seeing.
Morbius is not only interested in the girl. He wants the work Connors trusted Peter to hide.
While the three of them circle the same cure, the city grows new monsters. One still wears a friend's face. One is overcome by a dangerous thirst. One is learning, too late, that the gifts he received from a radioactive spider were only the beginning of his transformation.
A hunter who does not miss and a vigilante who does not negotiate are already on their way to end the threats by any means necessary. Between them and the monsters stands Felicia Hardy, the one person who might pull Spider-Man back.
Peter Parker has spent years pulling other people back from the brink. This time the thing on the other end of the web is him.