Dan Slot celebrates the return of Spider-Man and the ending of Spider-Verse (Exclusive)

The Spider-Verse is coming to an end, and it’s all Dan Slot’s fault. The prolific writer is teaming up with artist Mark Bagley for a return to the Spider-Man franchise, having written a decade’s worth of stories for the web-thrower. Slott gets things started with a bang with Spider-Man #1, which begins “The End of the Spider-Verse.” All your favorite Spider heroes like Miles Morales and Ghost-Spider will participate in the story arc, along with new characters introduced in spider edge verse Series.

ComicBook.com spoke to Dan Slot about Spider Man #1, Collaboration with acclaimed Spidey artist Mark Bagley, the threat posed by villains Morlun and Shathra, creating new characters in Edge of Spider-Verse, and much more. We also have an exclusive look at Spider Man #1, which goes on sale October 5th.

Return to Spider-Man and Collaboration with Mark Bagley

ComicBook.com: What made you come back to Spider-Man after spending the past two years in the Fantastic Four?

Dan Slot: I can’t leave this character. He’s my favorite character in all of fiction. Suck it, Hamlet. How was it really, people were asking me when I was leaving The Amazing Spider-ManWill you ever come back to her? The Amazing Spider-Man? And my answer was always, ‘Never.’ I don’t want to do it again I don’t want to do it twice a month ever. “It was like if you had seen that clip or a GIF of Lucy from I love Lucy In the chocolate factory.

The second you finish one problem, you get another. To do this quickly, always write the stories out of sequence so the next artist can start their story. So you always write chapter one of that story, chapter four of that story, chapter two of that story. And I was like, “Gah!” I always said getting the party was a monkey’s paw.

You got your greatest wish, but not the way you wanted it to. The ability to write without an adjective Spider ManOnly the ability to write Spider Man And I do it once a month, which is all I’ve always wanted. That’s kind of like going back to Spidey on my own terms and going, “Oh, yeah. I could write number one Spidey for the rest of my life.” You don’t want to do anything else. it’s great. And I have to do it with Mark Bagley! This is madness.

Most people remember him because of the massacre. For some generations, he was the man who was there AmazingFrom Ultimate Spider Man #1. The Ultimate Spider Man, which has been released like 18 issues annually for the longest time. And when you add that to his journey Amazing And all the other projects he has done, like Chip Zdarsky’s book life storyYou’re just like, “Oh my God.” It is synonymous with Spider-Man. We’ve only worked together on the Spidey thing once or twice. We did my first 616 Spider-Man story in Canon, from poison size #1 And that was with Mark.

It was like an eight or 10 page story. He’s just returned from the Secret Wars, and there’s a whole subplot that sometimes when Peter sleeps, the suit takes over his body. He was sleeping, taking adventures. Mark and I are one of those, like an adventure Peter would never remember because he was sleeping the whole time.

and through original sinWe did a quick two or three page story, the J. Jonah Jameson story. And that’s it. We never worked together. He had covers. He’s made tribute art on the covers of the books I’ve worked on, but this really is the first time we’ve been working together on long-running Spider-Man stories. This is madness.

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Stress-free spider-man

Since I mentioned Spider-Man being only monthly, did you notice a difference in terms of stress level, being able to only work on the monthly book compared to back when you worked twice a month Amazing?

yes. My God. Yes, a big exclamation point. It’s a different world. We have the first version in the printer. The second issue is already drawn up. The third issue, Mark approaches the century. We jumped ahead and released five early because of the schedule. We were waiting to see all the stories and designs everyone contributed to spider edge verse. We wanted to make sure everything was locked before we did that, but there was a problem. You’ll see why when we get to v5.

I’m really looking forward to it. I usually talk about a book that will be two weeks away, but this is a monthly book. It’s like five months. This blows my mind. It is already in the drawer.

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spider edge verse

How involved are you in creating the new characters that readers meet spider edge verse?

Obviously, I’ve been involved in short stories that I’ve worked on personally, and so I have one in every issue. I came up with a lot of concepts behind Spinstress. And there are some where it’s going to be, “Oh, it’d be fun to have that kind of spider.” And the [editor] Nick Lowe would come off and put it to people like, “Who wants this?” You helped Phil Lord create his character who will participate in it spider edge verse #5.

But by saying help, it was more like me being a soundboard, like a little Robin for his Batman. It’s all his thoughts, but I’ll be the one to say, “Oh, that’s cool.” This is how much you help me. “Yeah, that’s great. Do it. Do it, Lord.”

Apparently, Morlon and Shutra are back. We saw them in the trailer for Spider Man #1….

Don’t watch the trailer. Go blind. In fact, stop listening to this interview. walk away

So with Morlun, he obviously fought the Spider-Man and Spider-Verse heroes with his family, and then he fought the Shathra Spider-Man as well. What is their dynamic work together as pairing this time with the great threat looming over the Spider-Verse?

Well, this was always planned as a trilogy. you don’t New hope and then The Empire strikes back!, then switch bad guys. That would be silly. Who is fighting the rebellion? They are fighting Klingons. What? Empire No. So what we do, this is not the end of all this, from spider verse inside spider jedun inside end of spider verse. That was always the case. If I tell you about the Morlun-Shathra dynamic now, you’re going to ruin some fun.

Interesting to know it was a triple. It just goes to show how long some of these plans have been in the making for a long time.

That was always the goal because you have something like Spider-Verse and you go, “That’s so much fun to have everyone show up together, all the Spideys I’ve seen anywhere.” the original spider verse It was before the movie, before even Ultimate Spider Man did conditioning him. So when you go back to the original spider verse Comics, we kind of knew that there was something great about everyone, and that people would like to see more of that.

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Spider-Man guest stars, The Amazing Spider-Man crossover?

Can fans expect many of these guest stars and some of the characters they met spider edge verse to appear in your opening arc for Spider Man?

yes. if you own spider verse Favorites, it will appear. New characters we all meet spider edge verse Will appear. Everything happens.

Will there be a lot of points of intersection with a file Spider Man and the The Amazing Spider-Man processing?

They are set in the same world, in the same continuity, at the same time, with the same character. So the part I do running that I tell people is, if Zip Wells gives Peter Parker an allergy to peanuts Amazingwill enter it Spider Man.

Just like I first saw Spider-Man appear in our main book, he’s got [Norman] Osborne suit. Obviously, the books will play with each other. The difference is that you will get it The Amazing Spider-Man Twice a month.

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end of spider verse

is your plan Spider Man Series to follow after end of spider verse?

The end of spider verse does not mean the end Spider Man. So there is more to come.

Do you end of spider verse Planned for 2023 or the end of this year?

It’s the first arc in the book, and it’s going to be a huge arc. Six or seven issues will run.

OK. I was thinking it was a separate event, like spider edge verse.

No. Nope. number, spider edge verse is a five-issue mini-version, then moves on to the all-new, ongoing book, Spider Man #1.

It all matters. So the things you’ll see the most are… will really depend on the first spider verseAnd the Spider Gdon. And Jed MacKay made a series called spider verse. There may be some nods to Web Warriors, the team that lived in Loomworld, if you want to delve deeper into your Marvel Unlimited accounts. However, you can jump to The Amazing Spider-Man #1 clean.

You’re just fine jumping into Spider Man #1. If you want to read spider edge verse The first and second edition will be back in print, and the third edition will be out soon. And you can read all five numbers from spider edge verse Really anywhere you want. It’s a great fun anthology. So feel free to jump in with the third version. But if you want the first and second versions, they will be back on the platform soon. Thank you all for purchasing them.

I’m so excited. coming spider edge verseI gotta do my first ever solo story with Spider-Mobile. I have to re-team with me Batman Adventures Pal Ty Templeton, who did that too Spider-Man/Human Torch With me, and we did a solo story about Spider-Mobile that I love. You will meet other characters from the world of Peter Parkedcar such as J. Jonah Jalopy. This pretty much tells you everything you need to know about tone.

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Spider character secret verse

You bring back memories of your first promotion spider verseand I remember how excited I was about all the different Spider-Man characters I worked on, bringing back some forgotten ones.

There’s a Spider-Verse we haven’t seen before that will make me so happy when she shows up. And I think it’s the first time you see them there Spider Man #4. He’s just plain stupid. This is so fun. We also have the first ever appearance of the Night-Spider spider edge verse #3. She is the spider hero of the world where Felicia Hardy has got spider powers instead of the bad luck powers of a black cat.

Somaya as a prisoner was wonderful. We have to tell Felicia’s story, and she’s going to do some fun stuff about it end of spider verse. and with spider edge verse #5, We tell the story of the world where Craven obtains spider powers.

This was one of those gigs of your dreams. We have Bob McLeod who was an anchor Craven’s last chase The artist was new mutants when I was older. Just getting him to draw Craven was pretty cool. And JM DeMatteis came out and worked with me on the story and did the script, so it’s going to look right and look like Kraven. Getting to JM DeMatteis at work was a pleasure. There are a lot of great things to come. Oh, that would be very good. Everyone must pick up everything.

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