Senior Editor Nick Lowe handles the Spider-Man books at Marvel, most of which are leading towards Dan Slott and Oliver Coipel's massive Spider-Verse event. Lowe says the story, which sees Web-Heads from across alternate timelines and different universes come together, is something he's worked on since his first day in the 'Spider-Office.' "It's the kind of thing you can't wait to get in front of people because you've been living with it for so long," he says. "I'm so excited for people to see the amazing work that Dan and Olivier and the rest of the crew on all the tie-ins are doing. I think we have some of the most special tie-ins of any event, period. We have tie-ins that mean something to the major story, but also have their own identity. I can't even wait to share more plans as we move forward."
The Edge of Spider-Verse lead-in series has offered writers and artists to explore quite different itterations of the Wall-Crawler across alternate universes and timelines; the first issue brought back Spider-Man Noir. "He's a major character in Spider-Verse, and I wanted to make sure we reminded enough people of who he was," Lowe explained. "It was a character that we wanted to see more of." However exciting his return was, by far the most popular has been the debut of Gwen Stacy as Spider-Woman. "With the other characters, a bunch of them will play roles of varying sizes as we move forward, but Spider-Gwen plays a big role in Spider-Verse and has since Dan Slott dreamed her and the story up. But as far as what that Gwen and that issue became is all down to Jason Latour, Robbi Rodriguez, and Clayton Cowles, who I think very highly [of] or I wouldn't have put them on that book." So, good news for fans of Spider-Gwen (like me)! Another great tidbit to emerge from the interview was our first look at interior artwork from Amazing Spider-Man #9, the first chapter of Spider-Verse, by Oliver Coipel. Check it out below, and leave your thoughts on Lowe's comments in the usual place.
