"I went upstairs to my wife, and I go, 'I am so embarrassed. I think I've literally been crying for 45 minutes.' I've had real things happen in my life I didn't cry about, and yet I'm crying about this," said the author.

According to Marvel.com, the death of Peter Parker sets the stage for the upcoming debut of an all-new Spider-Man.

"We've never seen a world without Spider-Man, a world without Peter Parker, so his death is a significant event for the Ultimate Comics Universe and we're going to see how quickly it changes everything," said Marvel Entertainment editor-in-chief Axel Alonso.

“But Peter’s death doesn’t signal the end .... it’s the start of one of the most ambitious stories you’ve ever read in comics.”

The story continues in July’s Ultimate Comics Fallout, picking up right after the death of Peter Parker and introducing the new Spider-Man.