Writer Dan Slott has had an extended, typically controversial historical past with Spider-Man. He’s the person behind the story for the Shattered Dimensions online game, together with the architect behind the “Superior Spider-Man” arc the place Peter Parker died (technically) and had his physique jacked by Doctor Octopus. When he jumped ship over to Iron Man and the Fantastic Four in 2018, it appeared like his time with the webhead had come to an finish, however this being comedian, issues aren’t all the time as last as they appear.

Come October, Slott shall be again to penning the perils of Peter Parker in a brand new sequence merely dubbed Spider-Man. With artwork by Mark Bagley—maybe greatest identified for his run on Ultimate Spider-Man with author Brian Michael Bendis—the brand new sequence will decide up following the “End of Spider-Verse” occasion hitting in August. The occasion will see the return of Morlun, a psychic vampire whose household hunts down Spiders throughout all multiverses and kills them. Morlun famously killed the Peter Parker of the mainline Marvel universe, and his household has been the antagonists of the Spider-Verse and Spider-Geddon comedian occasions of respectively 2014 and 2018. The e-book will intertwine with author Zeb Wells and artist John Romita Jr.’s Amazing Spider-Man run that sees Peter working alongside his previous enemy Norman Osborn.

In a press launch, Slott stated that returning to Spidey was like coming again house. “Like there’s nowhere I’d rather be…Mark and I are two guys who live to tell Spider-Man stories. Cut us and we bleed Spider-Man,” he stated. Promising to not “let you [the readers down,” Slott additional teased that this new, adjective-less run can be taking “big swings” in each subject. “The first thing we’re doing, right out of the gate, is the Spider-Verse comic to END all Spider-Verse comics!”

Spider-Man #1 will launch on October fifth.

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