In response to DC record breaking sales numbers with The Death Of Superman and Batman: Knightfall, Marvel big-wigs pressured their creators to come up with a blockbuster Spider-Man event, thus The Clone Saga was born. The premise of the story derived from an earlier 1970s Spider-Man story where the Jackal, Peters biology professor named Miles Warren, cloned both Peter and Gwen. By doing so, the Jackle discovered that Peter was also Spider-Man and therefore created a Spider-Man clone. Both versions of the Spider-Man think that he is the original. One of them dies in an explosion, and the other continues on living life as Peter Parker. Fast-forward to the 90s for the second Clone Saga, and Spider-Mans clone reappears. The writers retconed the first Clone Saga to where the clone survived his battle Spider-Man and continued living under the name Ben Reilly. Medical tests proved that Peter was actually the clone, and Ben was the original Spider-Man. Peter goes into retirement, and Ben takes up the Spider-Man mantel. Originally, this is where the story was supposed to end; however, due to its popularity at the time, Marvel put pressure on the writers to drag the story out for as long as they could. This led to various changes in direction and major revisions from the original premise. After two long years and various convoluted rewrites, Peter was back in the suit, and Ben took up the title the Scarlet Spider. In short, the whole thing was a convoluted mess.
Since childhood, Bryant has been an avid fan of superheroes, and he has been reading comic books since 2006. His full name is "George Bryant Lucas"; however, after enduring countless Darth Vader jokes, he has chosen to go by his middle name. Born and raised in the United States, Bryant is currently living with his lovely wife in the country side of Wiltshire County, UK. Bryant does suffer from a mild case of dyslexia; misspellings and homonyms are to be expected on occasion.
