Ben Reilly -- Peter Parker's clone and the erstwhile Scarlet Spider -- returns to take up the mantle of Spider-Man on behalf of a corporate sponsor that has come into possession of the trademark. Conveniently, Peter Parker gets sidelined with a pesky coma while Reilly runs around getting the hang of the hero thang and his fancy new high tech suit and gadgets. The Daughters of the Dragon duo, Colleen Wing and Misty Knight, get shoehorned in as freelance employees of Beyond Corporation so they can train Reilly and look suspiciously at the very suspicious corporate leadership.

I skipped the Nick Spencer run of Spider-Man and thought this might be a jumping on point to revisit my old friend Pete, but, whoops, Pete is M.I.A. and Ben Reilly is no Peter Parker regardless of what any DNA test might say. And while Spencer is gone, this is a round-robin effort by four different writers and a half-dozen or more artists to produce a generic corporate comic book about a generic corporate superhero. So it's not a jumping-on point so much as a proceed-with-caution sign. ( )