This week’s Spider-line releases close one chapter and open another: the long-running Death Spiral arc reaches its finale while Marvel launches a multi-issue spotlight on the next generation of wall-crawlers. For casual readers and collectors alike, the new issues set up several immediate storylines—and at least one familiar menace refuses to stay gone for good.
Amazing Spider-Man #27, written by Joe Kelly with art by Carlos Gomez and Francesco Manna, delivers the final beats of the Death Spiral storyline. The issue resolves the direct confrontation between Spider-Man and the latest incarnation of Carnage, but it also leans into a recurring franchise mechanic: symbiote fragments survive even after apparent defeat.
That lingering threat is literalized here. As the wreckage of Carnage is rounded up, a few discarded pieces persist, seeding a new, oddly specific host—what the creative team teases as a cockroach-infected Carnage. It’s a grim echo of past events in Marvel continuity: symbiotes rarely vanish entirely, and those remnants are the engine for future returns and spin-offs.
For readers tracking continuity, the sequence matters. Kelly’s episode wraps the Death Spiral plotline decisively, but the surviving symbiote threads ensure a near-term return in other titles. If you prefer to follow the narrative as it unfolds, Amazing #27 functions as the essential starting point this week.
Spider-Versity #1, by Jordan Morris and Pere Perez, shifts focus from finale to formation. The one-shot kicks off a five-issue run that gathers a roster of younger Spider-heroes—Miles Morales, Spider-Gwen, Silk, Araña, Spider-Boy and Spider-Girl—under the tutelage of an unlikely faculty member: a reformed-sounding Norman Osborn.
The premise plays on tension. Osborn, long established as the Green Goblin, presents an uneasy mentor figure: he offers training and resources while his methods and motives remain suspect. The creative choice sets up dramatic stakes—can the fledgling team learn enough, fast enough, to face the coming threat, and at what cost if their instructor’s old instincts resurface?
That same mood of cross-company nostalgia and spectacle informs the new Marvel/DC: Spider-Man/Superman anthology, a commemorative release packed with short-form tales. The project assembles an unusually large creative line-up—Brad Meltzer, Geoff Johns, Dan Slott, Brian Michael Bendis and more—pairing Spider-Man and Superman across eras and genres, from noir-era meetings to modern-day team-ups.
Expect a mix of tone and scale: intimate campus scenes, globe-spanning conflicts, and even a symbiote-driven incursion into Metropolis. The anthology reads like a celebration of 50 years of shared comics history while planting narrative hooks that creators can pull later.
- Amazing Spider-Man #27 — Joe Kelly, Carlos Gomez, Francesco Manna. Death Spiral concludes; Spider-Man defeats Carnage in the central confrontation, but residual symbiote matter hints at future trouble. On sale 4/22/26.
- Spider-Versity #1 (of 5) — Jordan Morris, Pere Perez. A training program for younger Spider-heroes led by Norman Osborn and allies; sets up team dynamics and raises questions about Osborn’s agenda.
- Marvel/DC: Spider-Man/Superman #1 — A multi-creator anthology celebrating five decades of crossovers, featuring era-spanning stories and several creative teams tackling big and small-scale encounters.
What this means going forward: Marvel is balancing closure with new seed-planting. The Death Spiral finale gives readers a payoff, but the deliberate survival of Carnage material ensures the symbiote saga remains active across the line. Meanwhile, Spider-Versity positions younger characters at the center of upcoming narratives and places Norman Osborn back into a role that can be exploited for dramatic reversal.
For fans who follow release order, read Amazing Spider-Man #27 first if you want the canonical conclusion to Death Spiral before diving into the spin-offs and team-up issues that will pick up those threads.
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