Arune Singh introduced the panelists: Steve Wacker, Ellie Pyle, Dan Slott, Ryan Stegman, Mark Waid, Joe Keatinge, Kevin Shinick, Declan Shalvey, and Cullen Bunn. The cover for Amazing Spider-Man #698 was shown, which depicts a dying Doc Ock saying Peter’s name. Slott teased, “He knows Peter’s true secret.”

“I’ve been doing this comic for five years and done over 150 issues of the comic and for the first time ever, my heart skipped a beat looking at that last page,” said Wacker of Amazing’s concluding issue #700. Wacker also revealed that there will be a special letters column for issue #700 featuring letters answered by Stan Lee, just like the old days!The only other comic to come out the day issue #700 comes out is Avenging Spider-Man #15.1, which Wacker called “two sides of the same coin,” but Pyle added that we should read #700 first, as it acts as a bridge between the end of Amazing and what’s coming in Superior Spider-Man. #15.1 is also the debut of new regular writer on Avenging Chris Yost. The panel stressed that they wouldn’t be spoiling the big reveal of #700 (which Slott said we should get tissues ready for), but that to be safe, we should all stay off the Interwebs that week (good idea).“It’s an all-new Spider-Man – it ain’t Peter Parker,” said Singh, who added that Stegman’s Spider-Man is much darker than what we’ve seen. Slott stressed that doesn’t mean it’s “grim and gritty,” just “dark and weird.”“We’re not saying Peter is dead or retired,” added Slott. “Maybe he’s still in the book!”“Eventually Cheers ended. This is the Frasier!” joked Wacker about the conclusion of Amazing. More seriously, Wacker said that Amazing Spider-Man has been dark from the beginning, and at the time of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko’s original run, it was the darkest thing happening. Slott said the first arc of Superior Spider-Man is called Hero or Menace, and also teased that Spidey and Mary Jane are finally getting back together – but it’s not Peter!The panel brushed over the new Morbius series, showing off the cover, before heading right into Daredevil. “It was a real gamble to take a hard left turn with that book after 25 years of it being a crime-noir book,” said Waid, thanking the readers for their feedback and word of mouth.“The first year or so we made Matt’s life fairly pleasant… but the theme of the book has been that actions have consequences. Matt’s dealing with a lot of stuff right now, but he’ll come out of it because that’s what heroes do. But he’s going to need help from a certain web crawler,” added Waid, while the panel was coy about whether it was Peter or the new Spidey. Issue #23 will be Daredevil jumping on the Marvel NOW! train with a fresh jump-on point (but not a new #1), and Waid confirmed that Hank Pym would be a significant addition to the cast.“If you like symbiotes, you’re going to get your fill in this crossover and then Declan and I are going to give you more after that,” said Bunn of Minimum Carnage, the crossover between Scarlet Spider and Venom. Issue #29 of Venom will also move Flash Thompson to Philadelphia in an effort to put down roots in a new city. “He needed to be in a place where there could be Venom stories and not under anybody else.” Wacker said that they’ve purposefully been looking to expand the Spider-world instead of the same 6 blocks of New York City.“He’s going to be reacting to the new Superior Spider-Man in New York City and I can’t say too much, but we’re going to be building to something big next summer,” said Wacker of Scarlet Spider.Hawkeye was next up, where Marvel confirmed that David Aja is not leaving the book, but said that Javier Pulido would be a regular rotating artist on the series. Captain Marvel was also touched on, where Wacker said, “She’s a military person. She should be the leader of any team she’s on. There’s going to be a lot of Carol Danvers blasting stuff.”Punisher: War Zone was brought up, and my heart broke from the lack of applause that Greg Rucka’s Punisher got. Finally, a fan asked if there would be any follow-up to the Spider-Men mini-series, but Wacker said there are no plans at this time.A fan asked about Spider-Man 2099, and Wacker and Slott teased that perhaps Miguel is, in fact, the superior Spider-Man. But more seriously, Wacker said that he can't promise when or where, but they'll work on more 2099.

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