Former “Amazing Spider-Man” writer Dan Slott, and “Ultimate Spider-Man” artist Mark Bagley, are teaming up this October for a new, ongoing, adjectiveless “Spider-Man” series. The first arc of the comic will be none other than the previously teased ‘End of Spider-Verse,’ and see the return of the original ‘Spider-Verse’ villain, the otherworldly Spider-Totem hunter Morlun. Peter Parker will reunite with Spider-Woman, Miles Morales, and more to take down his old nemesis, and encounter new variants from August’s “Edge of Spider-Verse” miniseries.
Slott says, “‘The End of the Spider-Verse’ will see Peter, Miles, and your favorite characters from previous Spider-Verse stories, along with all-new characters from the upcoming ‘Edge of Spider-Verse’ mini, slam them all together, and bring the entire ‘Spider-Verse’ saga to a fiery close! It’s going to have lots of action, surprises, but, most of all, it’s going to have a lot of heart! Even though this story will be epic, it will also have a profound effect on Peter Parker. You are not going to want to miss this!”
Slott wrote “The Amazing Spider-Man” from 2008 to 2018, and describes reuniting with the character as “like I’m home. Like there’s nowhere else I’d rather be. How does it feel to be working on it with Mark Bagley, one of the greatest Spidey icons of all time?! Honored, excited, and unstoppable! Mark and I are two guys who live to tell Spider-Man stories. Cut us and we bleed Spider-Man. And now Marvel has entrusted the two of us to bring back their monthly — adjectiveless — ‘Spider-Man’ title!” Bagley adds, “Dan and I have been wanting to work together for years, and having the opportunity to be the artist that is there to wrap up his ‘Spider-Verse’ storyline is really exciting. Further, I’m thrilled to see where this book takes us from there.”
The first adjectiveless “Spider-Man” series launched as a showcase for writer/artist Todd McFarlane in 1990, and ran until 1998. It was adopted as the name for Miles Morales’s solo comic from 2016 to 2018 (when it was relaunched as “Miles Morales: Spider-Man”), and then J.J., Henry Abrams, and Sara Pichelli’s 2020 miniseries (which was eventually renamed “Spider-Man: Bloodline”). The new iteration will begin on October 5.
