Marvel's New Demon Spider-Man in Dark Web

Spider-Man’s admirer, Rek-Rap, was made from a piece of symbiote infused with demon magic, which makes him a very unique kind of character.


Warning: SPOILERS ahead for The Amazing Spider-Man #18Despite being a demonic Spider-Man doppelgänger from Limbo, the strangest thing about Spidey’s new admirer Rek-Rap might be the fact that he’s a unique blend of a symbiote and demon magic.


The Spider-Man/X-Men crossover event Dark Web depicts clone Ben Reilly’s revenge plan against Peter Parker. After he was ousted as Spider-Man from the Beyond Corporation, Reilly fell into a vat of psychic goo. When he emerged he had transformed into the villain known as Chasm. Teaming up with Madelyne Pryor, the Goblin Queen of Limbo, the two of them attack New York City and invade with their demons. Chasm fights Spider-Man and sends him to Limbo to be tortured until he eats an apple that gives Chasm part of his soul.

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Mixing Symbiotes with Demon Magic Makes For A Powerful Cocktail

spider-man and rek-rap in action

Things get even weirder in The Amazing Spider-Man #18 by Zeb Wells and Ed McGuinness. While in hell, there is a demon that looks up to Peter Parker. However, this demon is initially wimpy and cannot be a real Spider-Man. In order to strengthen himself, this demon goes to see another demon that hsd a piece of the Venom symbiote. He takes the demon’s cheap Spider-Man costume and mixed it with the symbiote along with some demon magic. The result is that the strange enhanced symbiote combines with the wimpy demon and creates a whole new being called Rek-Rap. “They said the world didn’t need another Parker…that I had it backwards,” he hilariously muses. “So say hello to Rek-Rap.”

It’s unclear whether or not this character is going to have a future outside of this Dark Web story arc, but there is still a lot to unpack about him. It would be enough to make him interesting if he just was a demon that combined with a fragment of the Venom symbiote, but he doesn’t stop there. Instead, his Spider-Man outfit is imbued with demon magic that then merges with both the demon and the symbiote into a crazy unprecedented cocktail. The result is some bizarre demonic, magical symbiote monster the likes of which Marvel Universe has never seen.

Luckily, this character is on Spider-Man’s side and together the two of them fight off a demonic version of the Sinister Six. As of right now, the character is mainly comic relief. He even says his own sound effects as he shoots webs like bullets from his own finger pistols. However, if Rek-Rap is to have any life past Dark Web, it would be very interesting to explore this unique nature that he has. He’s a combination of magic, alien, and demon physiology that would be crazy to do a story about that includes both Venom and Doctor Strange. For now, Rek-Rap will just have to be happy helping Spider-Man in Limbo.

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The Amazing Spider-Man #18 is now available from Marvel Comics.

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