New Amazing Spider-Man volume announced with Joe Kelly writing and Pepe Larraz as Artist

Marvel has announced that a new volume of Amazing Spider-Man will be coming in 2025 with writer Joe Kelly and artists Pepe Larraz and John Romita Jr as the core creative team.

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1
Written by JOE KELLY
Art by PEPE LARRAZ & JOHN ROMITA JR.
Colors by MARTE GRACIA
Wraparound Cover by PEPE LARRAZ
On Sale 4/9

Peter Parker’s next chapter will be introducing some familiar stuff that we’ve seen him suffer and experience in the past namely being unemployed once more and that job hunt is disrupted by the Rhino. Plus there’s a sinister villain pulling the strings in the background to ensure that Spidey doesn’t have a good day at all. Writer Joe Kelly has also promised that he will be bringing back a villain who we last saw seven years ago.

Meanwhile supporting characters returning to this new volume includes Peter’s new girlfriend Shay as well as the former Green Goblin – Norman Osborn.

“Even though this is a new #1, I don’t think of it as a ‘restart’ per se,” Kelly explained. “I’m writing the next chapter of the story of one the world’s greatest characters, lucky enough to follow in the footsteps of the folks before me.

“After that sinks in, I spend a lot of time thinking about what I love about Spider-Man and his cast, what stories resonated with me at different times of my life, and how I can synthesize all of that into something that works with what came before but breaks new ground… I feel a drive to take bold, unexpected swings in order to see how Spider-Man deals with Marvel-sized curve balls. Pressure makes diamonds.”

“The most important part of Spider-Man that I wanted to portray accurately is Peter,” Larraz added. “Of course I can talk about drawing a believable New York, I shot hundreds of pictures of details of the city for reference, or how I’ve focused on drawing the flow of Spidey’s movement and speed in a way closer to animation than comics. But I think Spider-Man comics work because we care about Peter and his world, so that was my main focus: To draw a Peter that you instantly recognize and empathize [with].”

“I didn’t think we could get Joe for a substantial run of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN,” Spider-Editor Nick Lowe added. “He’s always so busy with animation and television and movies, so he usually just dips in and out of comics.