I didn't end up following it but he had to track down 666 individuals and kill them, but by the end of issue 12 he had killed 2.
Then the new arc started, which is actually really cool.
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Before the retcon they were pretty much transforming him from a science-based superhero to a mystically-based superhero (kind of like black panther only with a spider totem). There was some nonsense about how the spider biting him wasn't a coincidence, and he was chosen by the spider-god or whatever.
I hope to god all of that was erased along with his marriage. I was not a big fan of Straczynski's run.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that spider totem stuff
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lol newspaper comics
Have you ever read the spiderman Punisher cross overs from the newspaper?
Hilarious
The Spider-man newspaper comic is hilarious in itself because it's so awful.