Spider-Man Fans rejoice. For it appears that
Legendary Spider-Man Writer Gerry Conway has a new Spider-Man tale to tell,
The writer who made his name during the Silver age
of comic’s by “Killing Off” Gwen Stacy and co-creating comic book character’s The
Punisher, Firelord, Ms Marvel among others, tweeted at the start of September that he was
working on a first draft of a new Spider-Man mini-series.
It was thought at the time his announcement referred
to the forthcoming Spider-Man event, Spider-Verse. As it was known then that
Conway would be part of the rotational team of writers working on the Spider-Verse
tie-in book “Spider-Verse Team up” a three part mini headed by Christos
Gage. Conway is listed as having to have a story in “Team up” part 2, a book
that incidentally hosts a Spider-Gwen storyline. Could it be…….there’ll be
bridges involved?
However it seems that all thoughts that this is what
Conway was tweeting about took a surprising turn on Tuesday when the man
himself announced the following
Just heard from my editor that my Spider-Man mini series is scheduled
for late Winter, early Spring. Wowza!
Given that the Solicitations for the December issue
of Spider-Verse Team up part 2 have been out awhile now. It can safely be
assumed that Gerry is not referring to that particular book. The other huge
indicator can be found in the wording of the tweet, as he refers to “My” mini-series and not “A mini-series I’m a part of”.
This to my eyes at least, this would appear on the
face of it something that tends to suggest that this is an entirely different
tale un-related to Spider-Verse. One that Marvel have not yet announced, A
quick contact to Marvel about this news solicited a “No Comment” response So
whatever this “mini-series” is, it’s currently one that’s a guarded secret.
That in itself is something to raise the expectation
levels and excitement. As to have a new tale penned by such a legendary writer
as Gerry Conway, who has such a history steeped in Spider-Man lore. Is a
mouth-watering prospect. To have him writing a character that he hasn’t written
for since the late 1980’s early 1990’s after his run on Peter Parker Spectacular
Spider-Man and Web Of Spider-Man would certainly be
well received by the fans.
One cause for speculation is that recently, the
Gerry Conway Spider-Man story “The Night Gwen Stacy Died” was voted the best
Marvel comic ever! So the mini-series may have something to do with that story
perhaps, We’ve recently had a mini on the days following Uncle Bens Death and
how it affected Peter in Dan Slott’s “Learning To Crawl” could Gerry
Conway be writing a similar tale extolling the lessons that Peter Parker learned
after Gwen Stacy’s death? Or is it a completely new story. After all back at
the beginning of September Conway’s Tweet read a little cryptically
Deep into the first script of my new Spider-Man mini series. Great to
hear Peter Parker's voice in my head again. Wait. Let me rephrase that
Whatever it is that Mr Conway is alluding to or even trying to tell us
with this clue. It’s got my Interest. As well as the interest of a Spider-Man
fan-base keen to see who is or more importantly isn’t safe in Gerry’s murderous
(yep 41 years later I’m still bitter about Gwen) hands.
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