In an interview with Comic Book Resources, Amazing Spider-Man editor Stephen Wacker let loose an interesting nugget of information:
For the couple of months coming out of “One Moment in Time,” we’re going to be bringing a lot of threads of Peter’s life that we’ve been developing since we started working on the book into one big story, ‘Origin of the Species.’ It sort of gives Pete a moment to assess all the stuff that’s happened to him for the last 100 or so issues. Beyond that, we’ve already started talking about the fact that it might be time for a new, or at least better, Spider-Man. I feel like we’ve done as much as we can do in terms of Peter Parker’s time as Spider-Man.
Was Wacker just musing, or is there more behind what he’s saying? Later in the interview he made another mention of this new Spider-Man:
In Christos Gage and Mario Alberti’s ‘Spider-Man/Fantastic Four’ miniseries, which begins July 8, we’ll be looking at the relationships between those characters over the years, sort of like what we did with ‘X-Men/Spider-Man.’ That will give readers a good sense of the relationship between that team and Spider-Man, which will play into some of the stuff we’d like to do over the next year as well, whenever we have our new Spider-Man…
Talk about unexpected. Maybe this is all just smoke and mirrors to generate publicity, but Marvel certainly hasn’t been afraid to pull their punches as of late. I just hope it doesn’t involve clones.
