The Superior Spider-Man Returns With Giant Sized One-Shot This October

 

One of the most daring and ambitious events in Spider-Man history is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, and Marvel is celebrating that occasion by reuniting the creative duo that brought the series to the forefront with Doc Ock as the Superior Spider-Man!

Coming this October, “The Superior Spider-Man Returns” will be a special giant sized one-shot that will bring the aggressive webslinging hero back to the forefront. Back in 2013, the Amazing Spider-Man #700 saw Otto Octavios do the impossible - defeat his nemesis Peter Parker by swapping bodies with him and becoming Spider-Man. However he also inherited his nemesis’ sense of power and responsibility, and aimed to become his own version of the wallcrawler by transforming into a “Superior Spider-Man”.

The one-shot will reunite writer Dan Slott with artist Ryan Stegman, and will also see other talents such as Mark Bagley, Humberto Ramos, and Giuseppe Camuncoli join in for the ride. Read more details via Marvel.com!

ICYMI: The World of Spider-Verse returns this August as Edge of Spider-Verse leads to The End of Spider-Verse

 

You didn’t read that wrong - Marvel Comics is returning to the world of the Spider-Verse starting this August, as a brand new “Edge of Spider-Verse” series chronicles new variants and adventures that will lead up to a new event called “The End of Spider-Verse” with Spider-Verse writer and architect Dan Slott back to helm it with a new creative team along with him!

Read more about the future of Spider-Verse via Marvel here.

Dan Slott teams up with Sara Pichelli for new "Fantastic Four" comic series

After teasing a BIG announcement to come today via their social media accounts, Marvel and new Editor in Chief C.B. Cebulski have revealed in a video announcement that they are bringing back the "Fantastic Four" in a brand new ongoing series this August - with soon to be former "Amazing Spider-Man" writer Dan Slott taking on writing duties and teaming up alongside artist Sara Pichelli! After missing for a few years since the end of "Secret Wars", Marvel's first family returns in a long awaited reunion that sees Reed Richards/ Mr. Fantastic and Sue Richards/ The Invisible Woman returning to the Marvel Universe and reteaming with Ben Grimm/ The Thing and Johnny Storm/ The Human Torch once again!

For more information on the story, visit Marvel.com!

"Spider-Man: The Clone Conspiracy" revealed by Marvel

Marvel has been teasing something BIG happening in the pages of "The Amazing Spider-Man", with mysterious banner posters hinting at someone or something being "Dead No More" and having something to do with the mysterious man in a red suit who has systematically been gathering many of the wallcrawler's foes to his side. Now, the curtain is pulled by EW, and it can now be revealed that The Jackal has returned to haunt Peter Parker by unleashing a new wave of clone madness, with a major story event happening this October called "Spider-Man: The Clone Conspiracy"

For those that remember the 90's, the much controversial "Clone Saga" was the event responsible for introducing many of Spider-Man's doubles - including his "brothers" Ben Reilly/ Scarlet Spider and Kaine/ Scarlet Spider II. The Clone Conspiracy will be a stand alone five-issue series, as well as a build-up to the event with Amazing Spider-Man #16-18 followed by a major story arc tie-in in Amazing Spider-Man #19-23 and Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1. For more information, visit Entertainment Weekly for details.

Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy begins this October.

SDCC '14: Spider-Verse Panel ongoing; Giuseppe Camuncoli cover revealed

With the seeds of Spider-Verse officially planted with the release of this week's The Amazing Spider-Man #4, which also features the new character of Silk finally revealed in full, Marvel and Dan Slott are currently in San Diego Comic-Con for their Spider-Verse panel ready to discuss and tease fans of the big Spider-Man related event that'll beginning this November!

Above is one of the many variant covers to the crossover, done and illustrated by Giuseppe Camuncoli~! Featuring not just our friendly neighborhood web-slinging hero, the cover also has the likes of Manga Spider-Man, Ultimate Spider-Man Miles Morales, Scarlet Spider Ben Reilly, Spider-Girl Mayday Parker, and More~!

Newsarama has coverage on the panel, and you can visit their page to read up on panel updates!

UPDATE #1: Scarlet Spiders miniseries announced, with Ben Reilly Spider-Man alongside Kaine Scarlet Spider and Jessica Drew from the Ultimate Marvel Universe! By Mike Costa and Paco Diaz!

Marvel brings "Every Single One" Spider-Man into "Spider-Verse" this November

This year is definitely going to be "The Year of the Spider" indeed, as Marvel and Dan Slott unveil plans for their next push into Peter Parker's oh so tangled web that is his life with the announcement of a brand new event for Spider-Man that involves... well, EVERY SINGLE ONE that is or is somehow related to him!

Via Comic Book Resources and Marvel's Live Blog announcement with Dan Slott himself, the House of Ideas has announced "Spider-Verse", a major Spider-Man storyline coming in November that sees pretty much every iteration of the webslinger that we've known throughout the years... And some totally new! It hits right on Marvel's 75th Anniversary, so EVERY SPIDEY YOU KNOW will appear.

What was first teased with a brilliant Gabriele Dell'Otto piece with just Spider-Man revealed...

Now turns into THIS.

And pretty much you can name some of those who appear in this awesome spread... Symbiote/ Black Suit Spider-Man, Scarlet Spider, Spider-Man 2099, The Amazing Bag Man, Future Foundation, Iron Spider, and even Spider-Ham. Heck, even the female Spider characters are in this, and you'll see not only Jessica Drew's Spider-Woman, but even her counterpart from the Ultimate Universe, and even MC2 Spider-Girl May "MayDay" Parker.

 So much and a lot to take in. Dan Slott and Olivier Coipel are tapped to take on the event, and it begins with a tease on this years Free Comic Book Day followed by the proper start of the event with "The Amazing Spider-Man #9".

Read more on "Spider-Verse", which begins in November 2014, via the source post at CBR!

The Amazing Spider-Man: New ASM2 Theatrical Trailer & Featurette, & Learning to Crawl "Year One" comic book miniseries by Dan Slott announced

With just about two-and-a-half months left until it swings into theaters worldwide, Sony Pictures and Marvel are dropping more web balls for fans to get excited about, as a brand new theatrical trailer appears online for Marc Webb's new Spider-Man film sequel, The Amazing Spider-Man 2!

The Amazing Spider Man 2 - Official Trailer #3
And then a new "Sustainability" featurette for the film has been released, courtesy of CBM Trailers.

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 - Official "Sustainability" Featurette #1 (2014) [HD]

On the comic book side of things, a new miniseries called "The Amazing Spider-Man: Learning To Crawl" has been announced, and it will act as a "Year One" sort of origin story which tells another side of the webslinger's early days that hasn't been explored before. The series will be written by regular Spider-Man writer Dan Slott, with art by Ramon Perez and covers by the great Alex Ross! For more information, visit the source post at Newsarama and The AP!

 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 swings into theaters on April 30 internationally and May 2 in the US!

 The Amazing Spider-Man: Learning To Crawl hits on May!

Marvel officially confirms Peter Parker's return in relaunched "The Amazing Spider-Man" series for Marvel NOW!

Well NOW it's pretty much official... Peter Parker is INDEED coming back this April in a new "The Amazing Spider-Man" ongoing, and following the leaked cover of a Marvel NOW! Previews issue for March-April earlier this week, the House of Ideas has officially announced via word from The New York Daily News that the one and only webslinger is returning this April for a brand new relaunched series, with Pete back in control of his body.

But the lingering questions are how did he return? And what happens to Doctor Octopus' reign as The Superior Spider-Man? Those legitimate concerns coming from the comic book world were addressed by none other than Spidey writer Dan Slott himself, who's going to pen the new ongoing and team up with fellow Spider-Man comic veteran and artist, Humberto Ramos.

Via Marvel.com, The New York Daily News and Comic Book Resources, Slott was interviewed and reflected on the fact that Peter was, for all intense and purposes "dead" during Ock's run as Spidey. He acknowledges that the big game changer he implemented a year ago was challenging.

"To do that for a solid year of my life, that’s the hardest thing I’ve had to do -- to look small children in the eye at a convention and lie to them. One of them with an honest-to-God Little League uniform and a quivering lip. Inside, part of me was dying.”

And despite the "Superior" change, now it's on the mill that Pete's comeback is inevitable, and it's not purely coincidental that it happens to fall around the same time that Marc Webb's Spider-Man film sequel, "The Amazing Spider-Man 2", comes out in theaters this coming May.

"We did it this way because no one was expecting it. Everyone out there assumed we'd have a big reveal later. People thought we'd bring Peter back in a year's time -- or right before the next Spider-Man movie," Slott said of the ghostly Peter Parker shortly after the debut of "Superior Spider-Man" #1. "Everyone was so savvy with how this all works that I thought the best way to keep people off their game was to just put that card on the table right from the get go. You're all so sure it was coming -- Well? Here it is! But if you think that's all there is, get ready to be wrong."

So there you have it... Peter Parker is returning... But will it be something expected? We'll find out in the coming months ahead as we count down to the "end" of Superior Spider-Man... And The RETURN of The Amazing Spider-Man!

SDCC '13: Superior Spider-Man faces Flash Venom in "Darkest Hours"

As SDCC' 13 kicks onward, so does the big news on a certain "Superior" wall-crawler!

Things may be looking up for the Superior Spider-Man currently, but come the next few months, it's going to be a dark road ahead for Doc Ock's new life as he comes face to face with another individual leading a new legacy as well... Flash Thompson, aka Venom!

Announced in the San Diego Comic Con via Marvel's own Superior Spider-Man panel, writer Dan Slott is putting these two unlikely heroes in the same place and the same time come November in Superior Spider-Man #22, as a new four-part story arc called "Darkest Hours" will see the new "Spidey" clash with the new "Venom". One can only wonder how this will turn out... And if things will ever be the same for the life Spider-Man.

For more information and an exclusive Newsarama interview with Slott himself, visit the source post at Newsarama!

C2E2 2013: Superior Spider-Man meets Spider-Man 2099 on issue #17

It's been a bold new era this year for fans of Spider-Man keeping up with the comics. Not only is there a "new guy" behind the mask, but the status quo has definitely changed in the comics for our friendly neighborhood webslinger.

Many already know what those changes are, and it's Otto "Doc Ock" Octavius successfully swapping brains with Peter Parker/ Spider-Man on the last few issues of Amazing Spider-Man and becoming the "Superior Spider-Man", taking over Peter's life and trying to be a hero in his own right (albeit with difficulty). The ride has been good so far... But writer Dan Slott promises a new "game changer" that will have fans clamoring anew and worse than in "The Amazing Spider-Man #700" when Peter "passed on". Come Superior Spider-Man #9 coming out this May 1st, It's Doc Ock vs Peter Parker in their shared mind, with an outcome we have yet to discover...

Still, that's not the big news. Rather, it's Marvel announcing during their C2E2 panel that Miguel O'Hara, aka Spider-Man 2099, making an appearance and meeting the Superior Spider-Man come issue #17! What can we expect from the future webhead meeting the present Spidey? We'll find out soon enough!

Read more on Spider-Man 2099 on Superior Spider-Man and more via Comic Book Resources and Marvel.com!

Superior Spider-Man: May Spidey Solicitations reveal the end of Superior Spider-Man?

Since the end of the "Amazing era" last December 2012 and the subsequent debut of a new kind of Spider-Man come January 2013, Marvel has left fans divided over the fate of Peter Parker and his alter ego with "Superior Spider-Man". Despite the change in the status quo, it's been a terrific run by Dan Slott, and his gamble has certainly paid off in terms of telling a wealth of interesting stories. I've picked up the first three issues (with issue #3 arriving this month), and the action and drama from the changes isn't showing any signs stopping anytime soon... Until now that is.

Jumping a few months ahead, Marvel and Comic Book Resources have released a preview of the May solicitations for Spider-Man related titles, and it teases what may be the end of Superior Spidey as we know him now... And the return of a very familiar to boot! If you don't know what's actually happening in the pages of the new ongoing series, it's SPOILERIFIC territory from here on out.

SPOILERS AHEAD, So look ahead at your own risk!

Superior Spider-Man: The Spider Signal?! *SPOILER ALERT*

The title is pretty much self-explanatory, and after the jump, those who don't want a peek of what lies in store for the future issues of The Superior Spider-Man may want to pry their eyes away. SPOILER ALERT BEWARE~!

Marvel teaser: Superior Spider-Man Fired from The Avengers?!

Superior Spider-Man #1 is due in comic book shops and stores this week, and it ushers in the new era of a very different kind of Spider-Man, as presented by Dan Slott and artist Ryan Stegman. MAJOR SPOILERS of course follow after this paragraph on what exactly those changes are, which were finalized in the major epic final issue of the flagship Spidey series of Marvel that was The Amazing Spider-Man #700 last December 2012. Now that a new year begins, so does a new status quo for Spidey... Which apparently affects his status as an Avenger!

Amazing Spider-Man #700 makes waves; 2nd Printing Cover revealed

True to form and since its release early this week in time for the holidays, Marvel and writer Dan Slott weren't kidding when they said "Things would change" with the release of the final issue of the long-running webslinging series - The Amazing Spider-Man #700. Since the twist was revealed at issue #698, earth-shattering changes were placed and the seeds were planted for the setup of a new series - namely next month's "The Superior Spider-Man #1". Reactions have spilled online from postive to negative, and seen in such comic book news sites as Newsarama and Superherohype.

What exactly went down with Peter Parker and how did it cause the entire fanbase of the Marvel Universe and beyond to be divided? SPOILERS be present below, and note that is you haven't read issue #700, it's pretty much sold out by now...

Marvel releases teasers for Amazing Spider-Man: Ends of the Earth

To tease fans for what is being considered the biggest Spidey event for 2012, Marvel.com has released two teaser posters for "Ends of the Earth", which begins with Amazing Spider-Man #682 this March.

Written by Dan Slott and drawn by Stefano Caselli, here's the official synopsis for "Ends of the Earth"

"The next big Spider-Man epic begins in Amazing Spider-Man #682, part one of Ends Of The Earth, by Dan Slott and Stefano Caselli! The Sinister Six, led by the vengeful Doctor Octopus, is back and they’re looking for revenge! Can Spider-Man & Earth’s Mightiest save the world before Doc Ock’s explosive endgame is revealed? Find in Amazing Spider-Man #682 hitting comic shops and the Marvel Comics app this March!"

The awesome teaser posters, featuring a defeated Spider-Man facing Doctor Octopus and Electro, are drawn by Gabrielle Dell'Otto. Will Spidey survive the attack by Doc Ock and the Sinister Six? Find out this March!

For more information, visit the source posts at Comic Book Movie and Marvel.com.

Marvel reveals Spider-Man's new costume for "Ends of the Earth".

Via their official website and Comic Book Resources, Marvel has revealed the full teaser poster showcasing Spider-Man's newest costume change for the upcoming new event in Amazing Spider-Man called "Ends of the Earth". Beginning with March's Amazing Spider-Man #682 (written by Dan Slott and which also commemorates Spidey's 50th Anniversary), the six issue event focuses on Spidey dealing with a new incarnation of the Sinister Six, with Doctor Octopus leading the pack and setting his sights on global domination. As a result, Peter Parker will be forced to go through drastic measures, and one such consequence is the debut of a new suit, which is viewable in the teaser itself.

Another New Costume For Spider-Man?

Apparently so as you can see from the picture above via Newsarama, and looks like Spidey's going to go "flavor of the month" around once or twice depending on the circustances during his new bi-weekly routine this November when "Brand New Day" ends and "Big Time" happens. At this year's SDCC, Dan Slott was announced as the sole writer for Amazing Spider-Man post BND, and joining him will be three artists rotating - namely Humberto Ramos, Stefano Caselli and Marcos Martin. The artpiece above is by Humberto Ramos, and in addtion to giving Peter Parker a black costume with neo green lights, it looks like he redesigned the Hobgoblin as well. Purists can breath a sigh of relief to know that Spider-Man will still be donning his traditional garb, but I guess those wacky costume variant action figures we see from toy lines will finally see the light of day... or not.

For more info, check out Newsarama's interview with Dan Slott on ASM.