pretty good.

The interesting thing about Hank is that he and Peter have the most in common. Hank McCoy may be a mutant but he's also a mutate, same as Peter. In Evolution's timeline, rather than trying a Roxxon formula to genegineer his atavistic traits away (and ending up the Beast), Hank had figured out a suppressant factor and taken it to hold them down. Doing so gradually altered his biochemistry, resulting in his becoming Evolution's Beast. I daresay that Rogue taking the crud would have wound up with her power erupting with a physical complement/component thrown in. Peter would likely end up with the extra arms, something I can say with confidence as the comics version had essentially recreated Comics Hank's Roxxon formula independently!

Excellent chapter

Never really understood Connors, people who wrote him apparently knew zero biology, reptile regeneration is miniscule, should've used a starfish, Starfishman would've made for a good Lovecraftian horror.

Ah, the best girl shows up, always fun to see her.

Max is way too fucking boring to be a nemesis, that's why no one ever uses him for that role, he's just a basic thug with superpowers, good enough for one beating, but that's it.

They're not two sides of the same coin at all, Peter is a super genius who doesn't need spider powers to be special, Max is a useless waste of dumbass space.

Eh who gives a crap about another dumbass thug with a sob story...

This makes sense because in the very same episode, the daily bugle made a newspaper cameo.

glad you gave Connors a happy ending

THANK YOU! I could NEVER get why Jean liked Duncan in the first place, then why she never listened to any of her friends about what a tool he was!

Will we see more Spidey villains? IMHO the versions of most from "Spectacular Spider-Man" were the best ever, especially Doc Ock! The way he'd yell "ARACHNIIIID!" was pricelessly awesome!

I get the feeling that Peter is going to figure out the missing piece of Xavier's and Hank's research to enable Rogue to safely touch other people.

the relationship between peter and Ollie is adorable and I really want them to have lots of sibling fluff

Secret identity? Is that a thing? I mean he seems cool so why not tell him a super personal story I never told anyone else even if I just met him