Marvel rebooting Amazing Spider-Man again in 2025 with Joe Kelly, Pepe Larraz, and JRJR
Polygon can exclusively announce that Marvel’s The Amazing Spider-Man #1, from writer Joe Kelly and artists Pepe Larraz and John Romita Jr., will drop in April 2025.
The pieces are in place for a classic Spider-Man adventure: Peter Parker is jobless, the Rhino is on the loose, and according to the an official synopsis for the book, “a major Spider-Villain is working behind the scenes weaponizing other Spider-Villains including one we haven’t seen in OVER SEVEN YEARS?!”
I've been keeping an open mind about, well, everything. Still, having been following the Amazing Spider-Man series since the late 90s, I have... thoughts about yet another reboot.
The people running the show at Marvel as it relates to Amazing Spider-Man have been doing so for far too long. Dan Slott, Zeb Wells, Joe Kelly, John Romita Jr., and most of the names you still see on the Spidey books have been involved since Brand New Day in 2008.
Nobody within my circle is actively reading Amazing Spider-Man at this point; the story teased for 2025 doesn't instill confidence. The book needs a complete restart with new talent. Otherwise, we'll be back here in a year, looking at another new volume to improve sales.