A Centipede's Way Home

A Centipede's Way Home is a discontinued series of panels that reimagined the final act of Spider-Man: No Way Home had Ciem and Italian Spiderman been allowed to interfere with the plot. Released in December of 2021, only two panels were ever completed.

Plot
As Peter is getting counseling from the other Peters, along with MJ and Ned on the roof, Candi and Franco show up to counsel him further. Candi gets to add her own exposition to the goings-on. However, it's revealed that the Giovanni Shrewberton version of Musaran is loose. Capp Aard and Eric Korsicht are also revealed to be running loose in New York; though Korsicht is determined to be the most dangerous of the villains to have been resurrected by the Percolation Wave's interaction with Strange's corrupted spell. Together, Ciem, Italian Spiderman, and the other three Spider-Men are able to quickly disable Musaran and Aard. The Green Goblin continues to obsess with Peter-199999, though he does get annoyed by Ciem and Italian Spiderman's presence, telling them to "get their own" shows. The other villains get defeated the same way as in No Way Home, but Korsicht proves by far to be the most dangerous due to the relic he steals from the New York Sanctum to create a new Heart of Pele with.

It takes Strange stealing that relic back to neutralize Korsicht. Realizing that Korsicht is beyond hope, Strange fuses Korsicht's variant with his Earth-G7.2.1 self at the moment of his death during the Ciem: Ash Cloud timeline, forcing him to relive the moment of the Gray Champion killing him all over again. Neither Ciem nor the Spider-Men raise any objection to this. The Percolation Wave then retrieves Candi, Franco, and Ciem's remaining enemies, and scatters them. The remainder of the sketch would have played out the exact same way as the ending of No Way Home had Ciem and her enemies never been there.

Characters

 * Peter Parker / Spider-Man of an Earth similar to Earth-199999
 * Peter Parker / Spider-Man of an Earth similar to Earth-96283
 * Peter Parker / Spider-Man of an Earth similar to Earth-120703
 * Candi McArthur / Ciem of Earth-G7.2.1
 * Franco Franchetti / Italian Spiderman
 * Michelle "MJ" Jones-Watson of an Earth similar to Earth-199999
 * Ned Leeds of an Earth similar to Earth-199999
 * Doctor Stephen Strange of an Earth similar to Earth-199999
 * Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus of an Earth similar to Earth-96283
 * Norman Osborn / Green Goblin of an Earth similar to Earth-96283
 * Flint Marko / Sandman of an Earth similar to Earth-96283
 * Curt Connors / Lizard of an Earth similar to Earth-120703
 * Max Dillon / Electro of an Earth similar to Earth-120703
 * Giovanni Shrewberton / Musaran, clone of the original from Earth-12131-F
 * Simon Ardvin / Captain Aardwulf, clone of the original from Earth-G7.2.1
 * Eric Korsicht, clone of the original from Earth-G7.2.1

Trivia

 * Pursuit of a series of panels for this story began on ‎December ‎27th of 2021, with one panel completed around ‏‎12:28 AM EST on December 28th of that same year. Amidst work on producing Blood Over Water: Dirty Laundry, this and many other plans for Centipede in the Spiderverse works were abandoned, their plot arcs aborted.


 * This set of images continued the tradition started in A Centipede Lost in the Spider-Verse, in which Candi would enter a Spider-Man-themed story, but would be unable to net-positive benefit the plot in any significant way. That trend was broken later with A Centipede Once Again Saves the Spider-Verse, in which Candi is allowed to entirely rewrite Across the Spiderverse.


 * Since Candi had Godfather Imaki rather than Uncle Ben in her life, the moral message she preaches to Peter is slightly different from the one given to him by the other two Peters, one where responsibility is inevitable, often in spite of personal power or lack thereof.