Spider-Man is a 2022 series from Marvel Comics, a relaunched solo series starring the eponymous Spider-Man. It's written by Dan Slott with art by Mark Bagley and John Dell. Edgar Delgado provides color art.
The series is set in the shared Marvel Universe and part of the main Spider-Man comic continuity.
Following on from the Edge of Spider-Verse anthology series, the first issue launches into the End of the Spider-Verse event.
The first issue was released October 19, 2022. After issue 12, the title was split into two books - Spider Boy, featuring the young 616 Spider introduced in End, and Superior Spider Man 2023, returning Otto Octavius to his iconic form.
Spider-Man (2022) contains the following tropes:
- Alliance of Alternates: A recurring theme in Spider-Verse stories, with Peter's equivalents from many different worlds banding together. Unfortunately things are different this time, as Noir, Spider-Punk, Ghost Spider, Earth-982's Spider-Woman and others appear, but not to help Peter - they have all been corrupted by Shathra.
- Eats Babies: After infecting Spider-Ma'am, Shathra lets her eat all of the infant Inheritors.
- Enemy Mine: In End of the Spider-Verse, Morlun teams up with Spider-Man and many of his alternate counterparts to oppose Shathra in this story.
- Face–Monster Turn: Shathra has been infecting and converting Peter's Alternate Universe counterparts.
- Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: The severed arm that Morlun used to get back to Earth-001 belonged to Spider-Boy.
- Origins Episode: Issue #11 functions as one to Spider-Boy (Bailey Briggs), showing how he came to know Spider-Man and became his sidekick.
- Power Incontinence: The second storyline, "Maxed Out", has Peter trying to amplify his Spider-Sense after he failed to save a man from a burning building. Instead, it completely overloaded it, driving Peter crazy.
- Psmith Psyndrome: As established in some earlier stories, Spider-Man can hear when people miss the apostrophe in his name. In the first issue, this prompts a Mythology Gag and a rendition of the Hyphen-Man song.
- Ret-Gone: Shathra has a blade that, when used on the Spiders, severs them from the Great Web so thoroughly that they will never have existed. After Jessica Drew is stabbed in the first issue, Peter himself is stabbed in #3, which ends with him disappearing.
- Sssssnake Talk: A variant. Shathra and Nestling have z emphasized, not s, so that they seem to be buzzing, like insects, rather than hissing. Once his infection and Face–Monster Turn is revealed, Noir talks the same way.
- Villain Song: After Princess Petra is corrupted by Shathra.Web-Weaver: She's singing her reprise in a minor key.
Sun-Spider: Yeah. Show tune-wise, that's villain music! - What the Hell, Hero?: "Maxed Out" ends with Peter blowing up at Spider-Boy and demanding he take a hike after he revealed that his big power is biting villains and filling them with a paralyzing venom.
