#the exile returns

[samasmith23]

One of my favorite Spider-Man: Clone Saga stories has always been the 4-part "The Exile Returns" arc, which not only features Ben Reilly's debut as the Scarlet Spider, but also Benjy's first major victory as a superhero since returning to New York after 5-years when he singlehandedly defeats Venom in mortal combat. What made the fight between Ben and Venom so epic was that the story was actually a response to a previous story in Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #375, which had Peter Parker make a deal with Venom to stay out of each other's way. The reason that was done was because Marvel wanted to turn Venom into an anti-hero during the 90s, but a lot of fans and creators were really pissed off about that story, since they felt that Peter making a pact with Venom betrayed the character's sense of responsibility. And this frustration was openly expressed in The Exile Returns, with Ben Reilly being incredibly shocked that Peter would have done such a thing, basically declaring to himself, "If Peter's not going to accept responsibility and bring Venom to justice, I'll have to step in and do it myself!"

Spider-Man group editor Glenn Greenberg even commented on the writers of The Exile Returns deliberately referencing ASM #375 in the 36-part online essay, "The Life of Reilly," which extensively covers all the behind-the-scenes drama surrounding The Clone Saga:

And the way Ben defeats Venom is so clever and inventive! Instead of relying upon the symbiote's usual weaknesses of loud noises and extreme heat, Ben utilizes his own original inventions as the Scarlet Spider. Ben shooting multiple "impact-webbing" pellets down Venom's mouth which immediately expand into hundreds of little webs that get caught directly in-between Eddie Brock and the symbiote, weakening their bond as Ben then shoots his "stinger" web darts to further weaken Venom as he beats him into submission.

Seeing Ben Reilly singlehandedly take down the one supervillain that Peter Parker was never able to truly defeat up until that point was honestly one of the most badass and entertaining fight scenes that I've ever read in a superhero comic!

And its honestly shocking that neither impact-webbing nor stingers stuck around in the comics after The Clone Saga ended (only appearing in the video game adaptations), since those things are so FREAKING awesome!

From adjectiveless Spider-Man (1990) #53 by Howard Mackie & the late Tom Lyle (May he Rest In Peace...).

#spiderman #scarlet spider #ben reilly #kaine parker #peter parker #venom #eddie brock #venom symbiote #clone saga #the exile returns #howard mackie #tom lyle #marvel comics #glenn greenberg #the life of reilly #90s comics

[comfortfoodcontent]

Web of Spider-Man #119 Marvel Comics House Ad

#spider-man #ben reilly #scarlet spider #marvel #marvel comics #90's #90's vibes #clone saga #the exile returns #90's marvel comics #comic house ad #marvel comics house ad #1994

[somberous]

George Seferis, tr. by Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard from, “The Return of the Exile.” [ID in alt text]

#george seferis #george seferis: collected poems 1924-55 #the return of the exile #***

[bolithesenate]

Purshee's O66 Makeover :P

My headcanon is that there is a special contingent of Archivists that always carry a Fragment of the Order's most basic and precious knowledge with them, tasked with protecting that knowledge with their lives should something happen to the Archives.

The moment the siege on the Temple started, these Archivists dipped on special, individual escape routes that only the Archivist themselves, the Battlemaster and the Head Archivist would know and they only return upon an all-clear from the Head Archivist personally.

Purshee was tasked with the protection of Form II, Makashi.

She survives the entirety of the Empire's reign and only returns to the New Republic several years after its foundation, technically breaking protocol by not waiting for the all-clear (which would never come). Only one other Archivist Keeper of Knowledge ever returns like she did and it is unclear whether that is because the others are still waiting for the signal or if they all were hunted down and killed.

#over the duration of her exile she becomes a makashi master because the holocrons and records of the form are often the only company she has #it actually saves her life because her proficiency in the duelling form comes in handy the one or two times an inquisitor finds her #random boli thoughts #star wars #oc stuff #star wars oc #purshee izleze #my art #the reason she returns is because she sees Leia wielding her former Master's (Vima-Da-Boda) lightsaber

[quesadillayuri]

dude, we talked about this. you CAN'T keep trying to kill yourself by drowning when you're sleepwalking. no, i know you can't control it, but it's really getting out of hand, man, we gotta figure this out.

- "ctommy and the ocean. like if you agree" - inspired by @arginnit's post tommy is so lonely in exile with dream, tommyvods (transcript by @daggryet) / anti-curse, boygenius (genius.com) / @arginnit, tumblr / tommyinnit is actually depressed in exile, tommyvods / ophelia, john everett millais / tommyinnit speaks to mexican dream in exile, tommyvods / dream smp: the exile, skywerse

#is this anything #arginnit u r fuelling my returning ctommy brain infection #tommyinnit #exile arc #dsmp exile #dsmp exile arc #dsmp #dream smp #web weaving #webweaving #web weave #webweave #drowning #<- cw #ctommy #c!tommy

[soracities]

Slavko Mihalić, from "The Exile's Return", trans. Bernard Johnson, Peter Kastmiler & Charles Simic

#q #lit #quotes #poetry #slavko mihalic #the exiles return #sing me down into the dark #croatian lit #m #x

[vigilskeep]

i liked this durge design from last week too

#this is irrelevant to anything im going to be in dragon age mode for a little bit #i think. and then i can return to rose or the exile or this depending on how i feel #not my problem rn. i just wanted to look at him :) #abel

[theopossuminyourgarbagecan]

"Antisemitism is bad, always, in every situation, and is still a prominent issue that needs to be solved"

and

"The atrocities Israel has been committing towards the Palestinian people since 1948 are completely unforgivable, and the Israeli state cannot continue to exist"

are two viewpoints that can and ABSOLUTELY SHOULD coexist.

#palestine #free palestine #fuck israel #to clarify i did not mean forced exile of Jewish people from Israel #but rather the dissolution of the Israeli government and the return of Palestinian land to Palestinians #forced exile would be unjust and unnecessary right Israel? #RIGHT ISRAEL?!?!?!?!

[local-limebug]

i hate MANY things about how angsty the s'chn t'gai family's canon is but i think my main issue with it is that it really makes a "jim meets spock's siblings" scenario impossible because of the timelines

(p.s. if you know any fics of jim meeting spock's siblings, send them my way pls)

#i am soooo annoyed #michael gone into the future. sybok exiled from vulcan and later dead because he went insane and thought he was gonma fight god or somethin #spock just. There #then jim dies too after about 30 years after meeting spock so even if michael even returned via wormhole shenanigans she might not see him #the temptation to write a fic where a) sybok doesn't start talking to god and b) the discovery doesn't fall into the future #so that i can just have a. scenario. where jim meets the family. #if anyone knows any fics like these PLEASE send them my way #limebug's original posts #limebug.txt #star trek #spirk #k/s #star trek tos #s'chn t'gai family

[stellorc]

behold them

pretty much all of my pieces are at the rendering stage, and my brain needed a break from this annoyingly satisfying process. So have this self indulgent sketch of my two girls, jesra and phebe, bc i love them so much <3

#now excuse me i must return to my mountain of wips like a greedy dragon #sorry for the lack of activity here I promise I'm doing art #it's just too messy and ugly to share here #also I passed my driving exam and now the streets have gained a new menace #phebs arm/glove thing has a thorn pattern bc she's dangerous #and that jacket is the only thing keeping jesra from returning to the darkside #pls don't take her emotional support jacket away #kotor #my art #revan #jedi exile #phebe aastra #jesra kast

[samasmith23]

Kaine had such a badass introduction sequence when he first appeared during The Clone Saga halfway through The Exile Returns arc! Debuting as a mysterious assassin-for-hire, Kaine was shown to be distracted by the front-page article of a newspaper while he was being pressured by local mobsters to take out a target. Failing to carry out the hit, the mobsters attempt to shoot Kaine, only for the failed-Spider-Man clone to swiftly kill them all with his bare hands, even branding one of them with his signature “Mark of Kaine” scar whilst proclaiming, “Unfortunately gentlemen… something else has come up.”

And as Kaine leaves the scene of the crime, the newspaper article that he was so fixated on was revealed to have been about the Scarlet Spider’s debut in New York, whom Kaine immediately recognizes as Ben Reilly!

I absolutely love this scene as it not only effectively establishes Kaine as this mysterious but superpowered assassin-for-hire with grim abilities, but also his past history and rivalry with Ben Reilly!

From Web of Spider-Man (1985) #119 by Terry Kavanagh & Steven Butler.

#spider man #kaine parker #clone saga #the exile returns #90s comics #terry kavanagh #steven butler #ben reilly #scarlet spider #marvel comics

[comfortfoodcontent]

1994 Spider-Man Marvel Comics House Ad for the storylines “Back From The Edge” and “The Exile Returns” which would feature the first appearance of the Scarlet Spider costume for Ben Reilly as The Clone Saga really starts up.

#spider-man #comfort food spider-man #back from the edge #the exile returns #ben reilly #scarlet spider #steven butler #marvel #marvel comics #marvel comics house ad #comic ads #magazine ads #comic house ads #the clone saga #spider-man clone saga #1994 #90s #90's #1990's #90's vibes #90s marvel

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

i love having cats. there's just a Little Guy in my house that i can go annoy when i'm bored

#she's my bestie she's my nemesis she's my comedy partner she's my little meow meow #i poke her she smacks me #i say hi she makes an unholy noise in return #i crochet she sits in my lap and watches #i freak out bc theres a spider & she eats it #and when i keep my door closed for more than five seconds she yowls and scratches like she's been exiled #she truly is The Most Cat Ever #except also not bc she acts more like a person. shes too smart #absolutely unprompted #sorry im just feeling Affection for my small ginger menace #she is currently crouching on the rug trying to Entice me into shenanigans #ohhhh nvm she just brought one of her toys into the room. she wants me to throw it so so badly #get you a cat who plays fetch #and Wont Stop Staring oh my god i can feel her eyes boring into the back of my skull #she's just staring at me from the hallway. menacingly #her tiny murder paws.... her weirdly strong tail that hurts when it slaps me in the face... big ol ears... pink nose... She <3 #i've never had a cat with such a strong personality #sorry *purrsonality #her range of expressions and vocals... unparalleled #helped me carry a bit for a full five minutes a lil bit ago #meowed back in all the right places with the right tone #she knows whats up <3

[brother-emperors]

Agrippa, Antony, and Octavian operate in a kind of love triangle where the object of desire is Rome. however. definitions of Rome vary. Rome is a place, Rome is home for Antony. For Octavian: Rome is a place, Rome is home, so he BECOMES Rome. Agrippa has only ever operated on a Rome Is Octavian framework, so as long as Rome stands, Octavian lives, immortality is achievable.

Everyone else suffers.

#something blah 'you can never return home' for antony too but idc about that #it's like. EXCEEDINGLY hard for me to care about an antony-exile-rejection of home framework #when i think. about. assimilation under the feet of the empire. and octavian and antony were rival dynasts #augh. whatever. exile trauma-rejection of home is antony's theme. i wont rob him of it #but i also wont wax poetic abt it because he commits one of thee worst sins to me ever. just an absolute fuck up of a leader #some real tirad pass shit going on there #(the exception to the rule is cleopatra '63 antony. love you babygirl!!!) #talking tag

[empirearchives]

Teenage Napoleon being absolutely oblivious to the significance of the French Revolution in 1789 and how much it will change his life:

#it’s funny how calm doesn’t return until he’s in exile decades later #and at the time he literally has no idea that any of that will have anything to do with him #Napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #1789 #source 1: New York Times #Duncan Kelly #source 2: Andrew Roberts #napoleon: a life #France #1700s #history #french revolution #frev #book #book pic #napoleonic #Bonaparte #joseph bonaparte #paoli #books #quote #quotes #book pics #Corsica #text post #lol

[ghostinthegallery]

Me (then, foolish, unenlightened): I don't understand shipping two characters who have never met in canon, I mean what is there to even go off of?

Me (now, wiser, cursed with knowledge): I need Anrakyr the Traveler and Thaszar the Invincible to make out right this second or I will explode

#necrons #wh40k #anrakyr the traveler #thaszar the invincible #no you don't understand #the thematic parallels and contrasts #two exiles one chosen one forced #one a wanderer one returned #um...they are both good with machines #and fly around on ships #Idk what Thaszar looks like but Anrakyr is dressed like the heroine on a harlequin romance novel cover and Thaszar is a pirate king #think of how hot the art would be