Spider-Man comes swinging in to save Logan’s legacy.
The new staff member of the Jean Grey School is not a mutant.
There’s a “secret agenda” threatening the school Wolverine helped rebuild.
Peter Parker is keeping a promise to Logan but it puts him at odds with the students and teachers of the school.
Spider-Man and the X-Men is a brand new ongoing series by Elliot Kalan (The Daily Show) and Marco Failla.
Even in death Wolverine is looking out for his fellow mutants by recruiting Peter Parker for a special dual role.
“Technically, Spider-Man is the Special Class Guidance Counselor, tasked with overseeing a very specific class of Jean Grey students. He’s there because Wolverine asked him to do it, though being a teacher isn’t the extent of the mission. Before Wolverine died, he had a suspicion that something was amiss at the school and that one of the students wasn’t what they seemed. Only he didn’t know which student. It’s Spidey’s job to find the truth—though he can’t help but hope to also have a positive influence on the lives of the students,” Kalan told Marvel.com.
In the first arc Spidey and the mutants face off against Sauron and Stegron the Dinosaur Man.
With Spidey’s wit, an unusual villain team-up and Kalan’s experience as comedy writer, the series promises to be a fun escape. Kalan explains what it means to take his television experience and combine with two of the most iconic Marvel heroes together:
“Aside from the thrill that comes with writing for Spider-Man, a character who has served as a moral guidepost for me for 20 years and counting, the jokes are actually the single hardest part of this whole assignment. The pressure is enormous to write good jokes for Spidey, when the whole point of Spidey’s jokes is that they are not good. Ideally, they should be funny while you groan at them. Spider-Man tells his jokes off the top of his head and has a sort of borscht-belt style, and hitting that is a real “thread the needle” type situation. I’m doing my best, though, and hopefully some of them will be funny. But most of them, hopefully, will be hilariously terrible.”
Spider-Man and the X-Men #1 arrives in December.
By Editor