065--Mister Negative

Yep, still got more Spider-man stuff for you.  Been sitting on this one a while.

You might want a refresher from a couple of my earlier Spider-man posts, but...  Not all of the horrors created by the Scriers were captured by the government after the events of the clone saga--some were already unleashed upon the unsuspecting world years in advance.  One of these was an illegal Chinese immigrant the Scriers kidnapped fresh off the boat.  In an attempt to further the link between man and machine, a step beyond even what was attempted with Cassandra Webb, they began attempting to fuse him with their special antimatter created using the SHATHRA system (the same that had been used to link Webb to her machines), injecting him with nanites bound to the antimatter.  But the experiment was deemed a failure when nothing seemed to happen, and he was abandoned to die.

In reality, however, the experiments had created a second person within him, a being phase shifted just outside of normal visible spectrum, that had intentionally hid himself from the Scriers scientists and from his own counterpart in normal reality.  Biding his time the negative persona let the immigrant pull himself back up.  Surviving and making his way to New York, he took on the identity of Martin Li and managed to create a very successful charity organization in a few short years.  Unbeknownst to Li, however, his negative persona had started taking him over when he was unaware, calling himself "Mr. Negative," and he had aspirations of his own.  The SHATHRA system nanites had granted Mr. Negative greatly enhanced strength and the ability to replicate his nanites and spread them to other things, both inanimate and living, granting them both his strength and his own will, allowing him to control others for periods of time.  After the fall of the Kingpin and the Scriers, Mr. Negative began creating his own army of "demons" to fill the void of power left by both.

So yeah.  Had to do this guy eventually.  His design is pretty similar to what he usually looks like, the only real addition I've made is the lines and stuff on his face to suggest a technological origin.  He was sort of difficult to just sit down and do--I mean, he is just a guy in a suit, but what I ended up doing was basically just drawing him entirely normally, shaded and everything, and then inverting him and then playing around with him some more to make him look more impressive.