Posted in: Comics, Recent Updates | Tagged: Comics, marvel, MVL, spider-man

Avenging Spider-Man From Joe Madureira And Zeb Wells from November – Monthly (ART UPDATE)

At the Marvel Live Blog today, Marvel announced a new ongoing monthly series, Avenging Spider-Man from Joe Madureira and Zeb Wells, starting in November, and at least initially, tying in with characters from The Avengers.

Zeb Wells was quoted as saying "With Dan Slott nailing all the Peter Parker soap opera stuff in Amazing Spider-Man, we wanted to a book about Spider-Man as a super hero, out there in the Marvel Universe with the Avengers. This is the big super action movie of Spider-Man every month, with Joe Mad on art." And Marvel stated that "Spider-Man has been Joe Mad's favorite character since he was a kid. Now his own kids are Spidey fans and he doesn't think they'll realize how cool it is that he's drawing this book until they're holding it in their hands" quoting Joe as saying "I was a freaking nerd in high school, so I can relate to Spider-Man. I loved Spider-Man because he was funny. Over the years, depending on the writer, sometimes he's funny, sometimes he's not. Zeb is very very funny. I hope I can pull it off, but we're going to have some good comedy in there with serious big action."

Zeb added "This is the big super action movie of Spider-Man every month, with Joe Madureira on art… I think we touch on every Avenger in the first issue. Red Hulk is the main guest star, but they're all there."

Marvel also stated that "the first arc will see Spider-Man and the Red Hulk headed deep underground to deal with the Mole Man and encountering a brand new threat… Avenging Spider-Man is Marvel Team-Up but where the stories have a major impact on Spider-Man and the Avengers."

While Zeb Wells has more of a reputation of a quirky comics writer, not doing a lot of comics work, with a bigger rep for his writing on Robot Chicken, Joe Madureira is one of the few comic book stars who can still "open" a book, to use Hollywood terminology. His speed has been an issue of later, however, on books such as Battlechasers and Ultimates 2, but his books still sell. We knew Joe was working on a Marvel title but not sure exactly what… consider our curiosity sated. And Marvel are insisting the comic will be monthly.

Oh apparently in months to come, he'll be off to Asgard. And Wolverine will be along at some point too.

Enjoyed this? Please share on social media!

Stay up-to-date and support the site by following Bleeding Cool on Google News today!