Spider-Verse
Spider-Verse is a comic book series issued by Marvel Comics since 2014.[1] Its first major event/storyline started on November 5[2] in The Amazing Spider-Man (2014) #9 along with an individual issue[3] named Spider-Verse Team-Up. This event took 20 publications to be completed[4] and featured nearly every variant of Spider-People and Spider-Man that had appeared in the comics and other media in the over fifty years since Spider-Man's creation, all under attack by Morlun and his family, the Inheritors. This first major storyline, however, was preceded by a full-flagged Spider-Verse series[5] titled Edge of the Spider-Verse, which served to introduce some new characters that would lead the event, such as Spider-Gwen[6] and Miguel O’Hara.[7]
This article is about the Marvel Comics series on Spider-People multiverse. For the animated franchise, see Spider-Verse (franchise). For the live-action franchise, see Sony's Spider-Man Universe."Spider-Verse"
- Spider-Man
- Superior Spider-Man
- Spider-Woman
- Silk
- Kaine
- Spider-Gwen
- Spider-Ham
- Spider-UK
- Spider-Punk
- Spider-Bitch
- Spider-Girl (Anya Corazon)
- Spider-Man (Miles Morales)
- Spider-Woman (Black Widow)
- Spider-Man 2099
- Spider-Man Noir
- Spider-Girl (May "Mayday" Parker)
- Spider-Man (Pavitr Prabhakar)
- Spider-Man (Takuya Yamashiro)
- Disney's 2010s Animated Spider-Man
- Inheritors (Morlun)
- Olivier Coipel
- Giuseppe Camuncoli
Justin Ponsor
The comic book series has received generally positive reviews and proved to be one of the most popular comics related to Spider-Man universe in recent history. Following the conclusion of the event in Amazing Spider-Man #14, several characters introduced in it such as Spider-Gwen became prominent figures in Marvel Comics, with some featured in titles of their own. Several of the Spider-Men from this event reunited for the second volume of Spider-Verse set during the Secret Wars and continued to operate together in the Web Warriors series. The 2017 event "Venomverse" was structured in a similar way to Spider-Verse, featuring alternative versions of Venom instead. In 2018, a direct sequel to Spider-Verse titled Spider-Geddon was released.[8] A conclusion to the Spider-Verse storyline—titled End of the Spider-Verse—ran from 2022 to 2023, following the release of an ongoing Edge of Spider-Verse series which introduced even more new alternate versions of Spider-Man.[9]
Spider-Verse also served as the primary inspiration behind many other stories in external media centered around bringing together alternate versions of Spider-Man. This includes seasons 3 and 4 of the Ultimate Spider-Man animated series, as well as the 2018 animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and its sequels Across the Spider-Verse (2023) and Beyond the Spider-Verse (TBA), and the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home, the latter featuring three of the live-action movie versions of Peter Parker.
Reception[edit]
The main storyline received generally positive reviews, with critics praising the action, art, pacing, and story. However, the ending received some criticism for it being anticlimactic.
According to Comic Book Roundup, Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 3) #9 received a score of 8.3/10 based on 32 reviews,[47] issue #10 received a score of 7.6/10 based on 16 reviews,[48] issue #11 received a score of 8.2/10 based on 16 reviews,[49] issue #12 received a score of 7.9/10 based on 20 reviews,[50] issue #13 received a score of 7.6/10 based on 15 reviews,[51] issue #14 received a score of 7.4/10 based on 21 reviews,[52] and issue #15 received a score of 7/10 based on 18 reviews.[53]
In 2015, Bleeding Cool highlighted a "common complaint" of the 648-page hardcover collection: "while the book gives a reading order to read the crossover, that order is not reflected in the book. Instead the individual titles are grouped together, rather than the Infinity Hardcover solution of presenting them in reading order. And because there are no page numbers following the actual reading order can be very hard. Advice given on reviews is to buy some post it notes and insert them throughout the volume for the beginning of individual issues and then refer to the reading order at the beginning".[54]
Sequels[edit]
Secret Wars (2015)[edit]
As part of the 2015 Secret Wars storyline, a Spider-Verse miniseries was featured on the domain of the Battleworld called Arachnia,[55] starring Spider-Gwen, Spider-Ham, Spider-Man Noir, Spider-Man: India, Spider-UK and Anya Corazon. After the conclusion of Secret Wars, the team renamed itself and was featured in a new series called Web Warriors (a name that was coined by Peter Parker from the Ultimate Spider-Man TV series during the original Spider-Verse).[56]