Death, metatextually or otherwise, has long been a rotating door in superhero comics. Not even the most famous deaths have remained really permanent, but in Marvel, if there is one that has remained quite close, and is among a rarefied group in the editor, it is Gwen Stacy’s. Gwen’s legacy at this point, even when he has been carried out by alternative incarnations such as Spider-Gwen in the last decade, is almost intrinsically tied at the iconic moment of his death, since it is anything else he did in the comics in the comics . Of course, that is why Marvel will find it very easy to get the attention of people with a little proverbial graveobbing.
Last night Marvel launched a cryptic piece of teaser art that represents an unknown figure that digs Gwen’s tomb, along with a simple note that «nothing is sacred», as well as a launch date of May 2025.
Faithful to that provocation, nothing is sacred: because this is far from being the first time that Marvel has played with Gwen’s potential return after the legendary story of «The Night Gwen Stacy died» in Amazing spider -man #121. Apparently he would return only a couple of years later in Amazing spider -man #144, and then again decades after that in 2016’s Clone conspiracy event, only both time for her to be revealed as duplicates invented by the villain Jackal (both villain incarnations, Miles Warren and then one of the other Spidey famous clones, Ben Reilly–Clone conspiracy It was a lot!). Gwen’s most recent resurrection, although very brief, came on the pages of the X-Men/Avengers/Eternals event Judgment DayIn 2022, where the soul of the true Gwen said goodbye to Peter for a last time it is not so similar.
Currently it is unknown what form this return will take, whether part of an independent event, or a new story in the next relaunch of Amazing spider -man It remains to be seen under the new creative team of Joe Kelly, John Romita Jr. and Pepe Larraz. But the splasser and headline holder arrives at a historically unpopular moment for the main spidey book. Although Marvel sales data It is often mercurialLast year he was dominated by the relaunch of Ultimate Spider-Man Under the writer Jonathan Hickman, without problems AmazingGenerally a regular pillar as one of the best -selling books of the editor, break into the top 10. Zeb Wells’ Run in the series, marked by regular controversies of everything that resembles his momentary moment of Kamala Khan or how the book Torpedió The torpedro. Popular relationship between Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson as soon after their return to prominence, wrapped at the end of last year, and the series has been in a tenure pattern through a magically infused configuration for this year. A world under fatality event while waiting for this April Amazing spider -man #1 relaunch.
While it is enough to say that Marvel Comics is probably well with the fact that at least one Spider-Man’s title is very good at this time, given AmazingThe great legacy is clear that there is pressure to return to the perception of fans about the title again. Will graveobing be enough to do so, or some things should be sacred? We will discover sooner: Marvel plans to reveal more details about Gwen’s return next week.
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