In 2022, Zeb Wells started writing ‘The Amazing Spider-man’, the comic that is already approaching its 950th issue. And he started promising the biggest revolution in the superhero’s life. Two years later, we can say that it was not necessarily positive: he gave Mary Jane another boyfriend and children, turned Norman Osborn into his friend, and completely destroyed the character’s status quo. Now, after breaking Spidey’s life in two, he leaves the mess to the next one. Whoever it may be.
Amazing Spider-no
Let’s face it: no one at Marvel wants to script Spider-man. He has so many open storylines, so many stories to explore and so much to solve right now that a makeover would have to be done to try to return to Mephisto’s promise of ‘One more day’, destroy Paul (MJ’s boyfriend) and, by the way, turn Norman Osborn back into the villain he always should have been. And this is just the beginning.
For now, several star writers have said they don’t want to get anywhere near this legendary title (the best-selling one from Marvel!), which is dangerous especially as the end of the Wells and John Romita Jr team approaches, probably in early 2025. In the end, the arachnid will face Lápida for a few episodes, and it’s in Wells’ hands (or rather Marvel’s) to leave a hot potato for the next writer or make it easy for them. Actually, all we readers want is for Paul to leave. Right now, if possible.
