Marvel is bracing fans to prepare for something "amazing" as they reveal an incredible list of creators -- including Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Hickman and more -- for an upcoming Spider-Man project.
Marvel released a vague teaser poster listing a number of creators involved with the upcoming, mysterious Spider-Man development. The list includes Gaiman, Hickman, Armando Iannucci, Dan Slott, Ho Che Anderson, Kurt Busiek, Anthony Falcone, Rainbow Rowell, Jim Cheung, Olivier Coipel, Michael Cho and Terry Dodson. With more details from Marvel coming in the following days, the poster tells fans to "prepare for something amazing" with a release date of Aug. 2022.
A number of the listed creators have either worked on past Spider-Man runs or with the character in previous Marvel stories. Hickman's Secret Wars event sees Miles Morales and Peter Parker team up after the incursion of Earth-616 and Earth-1610. Slott joined The Amazing Spider-Man in 2008 and then took as the series' sole writer in 2010. Busiek was the primary writer on 1997's Untold Tales of Spider-Man, while Dodson teamed up with Mark Millar for a twelve-issue arc of Marvel Knights Spider-Man in 2004, Cheung recently created a variant cover for Marvel's Amazing Spider-Man relaunch and more.
Gaiman, who is also known for his iconic Sandman run for DC, wrote the eight-issue Marvel 1602 in 2003. The limited series explores a timeline in which Marvel superheroes exist during the Elizabeth era. Spider-Man/Peter Parquagh is one of the heroes who appears in the storyline, along with early versions of Nick Fury, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men and more. Gaiman also wrote a seven-issue limited series of Eternals, drawn by John Romita Jr., for Marvel in 2006. While owned by Eclipse Comics at the time before being purchased by Marvel, Gaiman additionally wrote six issues of Miracleman with Mark Buckingham in the late 1980s.
It's not immediately clear when the new Spider-Man project ties into the current Amazing Spider-Man run, which comes from writer Zeb Wells and artist Romita Jr. The first issue of the series released in April and ended with the startling revelation that Mary Jane has two children and is seemingly in a relationship with someone else. Amazing Spider-Man #2 releases on May 25. The synopsis reads, "The best couple in comics is done? You aren’t going to believe what is happening in this volume of Amazing Spider-Man." Future issues will see Peter receive a new Spider-Man suit from Norman Osborn/Green Goblin and fight a new deadly mega-villain called the Sinister Adaptoid.
Source: Marvel