Marvel’s Next Big Thing is Some Big Comic Book Stories

Spider-Man spins a dark web as Norman Osborn goes good

Spider-Man’s already got a busy year ahead of him, what with the Spider-Verse ending, but Peter Parker’s life rarely lets him catch a break. A new crossover story titled Dark Web from Zeb Wells and Adam Kubert will see Spidey team up with the X-Men as they face off against the clone cabal of Madeline Pryor and Ben Reilly. Reilly, you’ll recall, tried his hand at being Spider-Man while Peter was out of commission, but things didn’t exactly go his way, and he adopted the new villainous mantle of Chasm.

As one of the tie-ins to Dark Web, Spidey’s old foe Norman Osborn is going to the side of the angels. Under his new Gold Goblin persona, Norman will star in a spinoff comic written by Christopher Cantwell with art from Lan Medina. Unclear how long this heel turn will last, but given the track record of Spidey villains trying to go straight, it likely won’t be for too long.

Hickman’s Back

Jonathan Hickman’s tackled the Avengers, Fantastic Four, and most recently X-Men, turning each of them into big pieces for his long game stories that almost always shake up the Marvel Universe in some big ways. Now he’s set to do it all again with Judgment Day artist Valerio Schiti next year. At the Next Big Thing panel, all Hickman would say is that he’s been working on it for the past three years. “That message will not sound like gibberish when the first issue comes out,” he teased. “This is probably my favorite thing I’ve written for Marvel…it’s Sandman for the Marvel universe.”

The space background makes it clear that we’ll be traveling the stars during the comic. Given the recent Eternal push, Hickman could be turning his eye towards them, but it’s also a good chance he’s working on the Inhumans. After all, if he revitalized the X-Men before their inevitable silver screen return, and his Avengers run helped set up what’s now the Multiverse saga, it’s not hard to imagine him retooling one of the publisher’s biggest failures in recent memory.

[via GamesRadar, Superpouvoir and AIPT]

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