Iconic Issue: Herc (2010) #8 - Spider-Island Tie-In

After the Chaos War and Hercules’ death, the son of Zeus returned to life (as all immortals do) only without the invulnerability that he possessed as a demi-god. Now a Brooklyn bartender, Hercules protects fellow mortals, while charming the local women. That is until genetically-altered bed bugs created by the supervillains Jackal and Spider Queen give everyone in New York City spider powers.

Welcome to Spider-Island!

Let's give Hercules the Symbiote Suit. While we're at it, layer on a Web Warrior build: Web of Life and Destiny, Ghost Spider, SP//DR, Spider-Man: Hobie Brown, Spider-Man: Otto Octavius. Build Support can bring in Web of Life and Destiny. Evaluate Threat discounts Avengers Mansion for needed card draw.

Now....

This basic deck kernel can then continue in any aspect depending on personal preference. Starting out with wanting the hero to focus on damage output, Justice will supplement thwarting while our hero builds out his upgrades and tackles The Labors.

While the player side schemes accelerate this build out, Chance Encounter attached to player or encounter side schemes will bring web warrior allies back to hand. Spider-Woman is ideal if Quick Quip has been played to confuse a couple enemies. Putting damage on SP//DR when using Quick Quip then activating him brings him back to hand to play again more frequently. In the later game, Olympus easily provides the 2 resources.

Sense of Justice supplements Olympus to provide a mental resource for Multitasking, allowing threat to be removed from the labor side-scheme and the main scheme simultaneously. Clear the Area adds card draw on top of Amadeus Cho, Avengers Mansion, and Skilled Investigator.

With most of the allies as basic, two copies of The Power in All of Us are included with Energy, Genius, and Strength. As the deck thins out, removing defeated player side schemes and the many upgrades/supports, Spider-Herc will cycle through his allies and events more frequently.