Boomerang betrayed Spider-Man in the pages of today's Amazing Spider-Man: King's Ransom, delivering the completed Lifeline Tablet to Wilson Fisk. While we, and Peter Parker, expected The Kingpin to bring Vanessa Fisk back from the dead, the villain came to terms with the fact that his late wife wouldn't want to be resurrected to live alongside the man she hated before dying.
Instead, he chose to fix Vanessa's biggest mistake and bring back their son, Richard, a villain better known as The Rose. Despite a brief return during "The Clone Conspiracy," Richard has remained dead since his mother gunned him down, so it will be interesting to see what he brings to the table now The Kingpin is the Mayor of New York City.
The Rose has been a thorn (no pun intended) in the sides of both his dear old daddy and Spidey over the years, so he's likely going to make quite the splash in Amazing Spider-Man moving forward.
As we near the series' landmark 900th issue, it's clear that writer Nick Spencer has big plans for Kindred and some sort of "One More Day" retcon, but he's certainly throwing plenty at the wall-crawler in the meantime. It feels like a big status quo shift is in the works for the web-slinger, something that's arguably needed at this point (yes, we want his marriage with MJ back).
Check out The Rose's return below:
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