Marvel sent over this press release announcing the new creative teams for Amazing Spider-Man. It looks like it will take several people to replace outgoing writer Nick Spencer. What are your thoughts?
NEW TEAM OF WRITERS TAKE SPIDER-MAN BEYOND YOUR WILDEST EXPECTATIONS IN AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #75!
Zeb Wells, Kelly Thompson, Saladin Ahmed, Cody Ziglar, and Patrick Gleason bring you a new era of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN this October!
New York, NY— June 24, 2021 — A bold new age of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN is on the horizon! Starting in October, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN will return with a story so bombastic that it will take greatest team of web-writers and arachnid-artists ever assembled to tell it. Kelly Thompson, Saladin Ahmed, Cody Ziglar, Patrick Gleason, and Zeb Wells will team up on the thrice-monthly title to shake up the Spider-Man mythos in ways no one will see coming… The saga will kick off in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #75 where Ben Reilly will return to take back the mantle of Spider-Man. Backed by the Beyond Corporation, the captivating clone of Peter Parker is determined to be the best version of Spider-Man there ever was. And as yesterday’s teasers showed, this could have fatal consequences for Peter Parker…
Here’s what Editor Nick Lowe had to say about this daring new era of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN:
“The whole point of working on Spider-Man is trying to put new unliftable weights on top of him—physical, metaphysical, emotional, psychological—and seeing if he can lift them. But what if that weight truly is too heavy? What if someone with the exact same skills and formative years could do better? Ben Reilly is back and, with Aunt May and Uncle Ben’s lessons in the back of HIS mind as well, he’s here to step in where Peter Parker failed. Can he accomplish things the original Spider-Man never could? These questions are what sold me on this story.
“When Zeb Wells started building this story it became apparent that it needed a narrative velocity and a team of the best of the best to make it happen. So we gathered some of the greatest writers and artists in comics to join us and the story got even better and bigger and more surprising.
“Zeb has proven through Amazing Spider-Man “Shed”, Spider-Man/Doc Ock: Year One, and Hellions that he will bring the balance of hilarity and emotional devastation. Kelly Thompson’s work on Captain Marvel and Black Widow shows her to be the best mind for character work along with a fearless creativity that will keep you guessing. Saladin Ahmed is the rare writer who walks the tightrope of a book like his Eisner-Winning Black Bolt to his smash hit “Clone Saga” arc of Miles Morales: Spider-Man and his contributions shook us all. Fans from his time at the Distinguished Competition know Patrick Gleason isn’t only an artistic visionary (as proven recently from his Webhead covers) but also a highly-skilled writer whose Marvel debut is going to be the shot heard round the comics world. Cody Ziglar is a new name in comics, but the work he did for the upcoming Disney+ She-Hulk show and Rick and Morty showed us at Marvel that he is part of the next generation of Marvel superstar writers and he has not disappointed here.”
Fans will be able to get their first glimpse at what’s to come on August 14th in FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2021: SPIDER-MAN/VENOM. Check out artwork below and stay tuned for an upcoming announcement revealing which incredible artists will be joining this talented group of writers in what promises to be one of the most unpredictable runs in Spider-Man history! For more information, visit Marvel.com.
FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2021: SPIDER-MAN/VENOM Artwork by PATRICK GLEASON
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“Being the “better” Spider-man is something that Dr. Octopus attempted” – yup. 25 issues of who is the better Spider-Man, only to find out it’s Peter.
“I’d rather read about Peter’s home life with Mary Jane and non-superheroic activities than to see Ben Reilly again.” – I would happily read 25 issues of this
Ah, forget it. You know what I mean. I guess I’m passionate about this topic.
Pardon my typo: I meant to say “And I say that sincerely because I’m read Spider-man for Peter Parker and want him to have some happiness.”
Ben taking Peter’s place is what made me stop caring about Spider-man until his return. Being the “better” Spider-man is something that Dr. Octopus attempted, and it doesn’t sound like something Ben would be motivated by. Then again, we got the Clone Conspiracy, in which he essentially became a villain after his heroic sacrifice, so I guess nothing is sacred anymore. Did I ever mention how much I love consistency?
I’d rather read about Peter’s home life with Mary Jane and non-superheroic activities than to see Ben Reilly again. (And I say that sincerely because I’m in Peter Parker and want him to have some happiness). There’s value in setting Ben’s character back to the way he’s supposed to have been, as Sthenurus and Joseph Wagner say, but other than that, I don’t really have any interest, unless Peter and Mary Jane have a prominent presence.
I also mean this sincerely: The article refers to the new creative team as “the greatest team of web-writers and arachnid-artists ever assembled.” Do you think (a) they really believe this, (b) they don’t believe this but think we will, or (c) they neither believe this nor expect us to believe this, but are only stating it because solicitations are supposed to have hyperbole?
I’m with Sthenurus, Ben Reilly is my favorite character and I’m hoping they can redeem him moving forward. The Clone Conspiracy was awful and aside from the Kaine/Ben interactions, the Peter David series was very lack-luster. I do hope they pull in Kaine, as I would love to see the “sibling” relationships develop between Ben and Kaine and ultimately Peter. I feel like that the close relationship Peter and Ben had in the original Clone Saga has been completely overlooked and this may be a chance to bring that back in some way.
It’s a little late for an April Fools joke, isn’t it? That has to be what this is. The clone saga is the second worst story in Spider-man history, and we’re going to do it again? Yeah, I’m out too. I’d read a Ben Riley book, but I’d rather Slott came back than have him taking Peter’s place again.
Think I’m out too after issue 74. The Ben Reilly story been told. Furthermore, the character had too many deaths and resurrections to make him interesting. So this is a Ben who been resurrected in a new clone body, his mind and soul healed and restored? This is Ben number what now? The Scarlet Spider has died and returned more than anyone else in the Marvel Universe,
The new art teams aren’t exciting me. Teams of guest writers just feel like the title will just waver til it hits issue 900. Was hoping for someone like Jonathan Hickman or Al Ewing, to take over the title.
Call me sentimental for the past, but just keep hoping for something like what Marv Wolfman pulled off on Spider-Man weaving plot lines which lead to issue 200. Those were the days.
Ah the hell with this. I’m out at issue 74. Can’t take another Angsty Spider-Man hangs it up/death of Peter Parker/clone saga redux. Been there, done that.
Sigh – I have enjoyed nicks run. It brought me back to comics after stopping for years. Sorry but for me Ben Reilly was one of the worst eras of spiderman and have no desire to go back to it. Oh well.
I know I’ll be in the minority here but… I’m SO glad this is happening. I grew up with Ben Reilly. I started reading comics when Ben came back onto the scene. To me he was Spiderman. Then he died a hero… but Slott brought him back and raped the character (and my childhood).
Spidergeddon “reseted” Ben but now a new generation might have a chance to see how sensational this spiderman is! At least until ASM 900 when Peter comes back.
I hope at the very least it redeems Ben after that Clone Conspiracy debacle. But this basically seems like they’re doing Brand New Day all over again.
Yup, sounds right, 75 issues of teasing the Marriages returned followed immediately by how do we make Spider-Man young and cool (and single) again 😀
I’m not sure I like this. Why would Ben trust the Beyond Corporation when Peter could tell him they were villains? (They were the villains in Ewing’s Mighty Avengers and I’m assuming it’s the same ones.)
I’m sure marketing could have done better than: “Zeb has proven through Amazing Spider-Man “Shed””.
So it sounds like issue 75 will be taking Peter Parker off the table for a while. My guess is that Spencer said it took way too long to fix Peter and he’s not going to let anyone mess him up for a while.
From the looks of the cover, Peter and MJ get a happy ending, but from one of the preview images, maybe not so much so? My thought is that Peter emerges victorious and now he and MJ know what they did. They leave to go somewhere else to reset their life while Ben comes back to fill in the gap. More or less how they brought Ben in for the Clone Saga, maybe?