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Spider-Man, Venom and Carnage will team up to hunt down a super-powered serial killer in DEATH SPIRAL Crossover

Revealed yesterday during the “Marvel Comics: Spider-Man and his Venomous Friends Panel” at New York Comic Con, Death Spiral is a new crossover saga from Amazing Spider-Man, VenomAnd Eddie Brock: Carnage next February.

The event will begin in Amazing Spider-Man/Venom: Death Spiral #1a special one-shot, and continues in issues of Amazing Spider-Man And Venom until April.

Death Spiral will be written by three of today’s most acclaimed Spider-Man and symbiote storytellers: Joe Kelly (Amazing Spider-Man), Al Ewing (Venom), and Charles Soule (Eddie Brock: Carnage) — and feature illustrations by Ed McGuinness, Carlos Gómez and Jesús Saíz.

During the panel, Ewing, Kelly and Soule, along with Editor-in-Chief Nick Lowe, Editor-in-Chief Jordan D. White and Editor-in-Chief CB Cebulski, discussed recent developments including Spider-Man’s cosmic adventures, Mary Jane becoming Venom and Eddie Brock’s connection to Carnage, and explained how it all leads to this terrifying saga which introduces Torment.

This twisted new supervillain targets Peter Parker and everyone connected to him, setting Spider-Man, Venom and Carnage on a violent collision course that not everyone involved will survive! Here is the official description from Marvel Comics:

DEATH SPIRAL – PART ONE! Kicking off the event with a one-shot that will bring any new readers up to speed, Joe Kelly, Al Ewing and Charles Soule and artist Jesus Saiz deliver their biggest Marvel work yet! A new super-powered serial killer is on the loose, and he’s going after Spidey, Venom, and everyone else. But what terrible secret has Carnage learned? And what does this have to do with Spider-Man?! Don’t miss the next chapters of this saga of spiders and symbiotes in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #23-27 and VENOM #255-257!

“One of the craziest periods in Spider and Symbiote history shifts into high gear with this killer crossover!” Spider editor Nick Lowe said today. “Not only will readers get to see Peter Parker learn that his longtime love, Mary Jane Watson, is related to one of his greatest enemies, but both will learn that Eddie Brock has teamed up with the most evil symbiote of all time, Carnage.”

“They will all be even more horrified when they face a scarier villain: Torment! No one is safe,” he teased, promising a terrifying new addition to Spidey’s world.

You can check out Ed McGuinness’ cover for Amazing Spider-Man/Venom: Death Spiral #1 below. More details about the event will be revealed in the coming months, so stay tuned for updates as we get them.


AMAZING SPIDER-MAN/VENOM: DEATH SPIRAL #1
Written by AL EWING, CHARLES SOULE and JOE KELLY
Illustration by Jesus Saiz
Cover by ED MCGUINNESS
On sale 02/26


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