{"id":460108,"date":"2026-03-06T04:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/460108\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T04:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:59:15","slug":"superstar-writer-jonathan-hickman-is-bringing-spider-man-4-stars-spidey-hulk-and-punisher-together-for-a-story-thats-unrestrained-by-continuity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/460108\/","title":{"rendered":"Superstar writer Jonathan Hickman is bringing Spider-Man 4 stars Spidey, Hulk, and Punisher together for a story that’s “unrestrained by continuity”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spider-Man: Brand New Day arrives in theaters this summer, and the three main stars of the movie, Punisher, Hulk, and Spidey himself, are colliding in a new comic that kicks off just in time for the film’s release.<\/p>\n

The five issue limited series is titled Spider-Man: Long Way Home, borrowing the naming conceit of the first three MCU Spider-Man movies. It’s written by Marvel superstar Jonathan Hickman, who spearheaded the X-Men’s Krakoa era and the latest incarnation of the Ultimate Universe, including writing Ultimate Spider-Man. The new series is drawn by long time Marvel artist Adam Kubert, who has had memorable runs on many Marvel heroes, including Hulk and Spider-Man. Colorist Frank Martin rounds out the creative team.<\/p>\n

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Spider-Man: Long Way Home is billed as “unrestrained” by mainstream Marvel Comics continuity, telling a standalone story about Spidey, Punisher, and Hulk all adventuring in the South American jungle in search of a reality-altering Cosmic Cube \u2013 to keep it out of the hands of the villainous AIM organization.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a gallery of uncolored interior pages from Spider-Man: Long Way Home along with the main cover by series artist Adam Kubert along with a variant cover by Dave Johnson:<\/p>\n

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“A DARK HOMECOMING AWAITS\u2026 It’s a world before the Punisher. A world where the existence of the Hulk is but a whisper of a rumor. A world where A.I.M. has just developed a Cosmic Cube in the jungles of South America,” reads Marvel’s official synopsis for Spider-Man: Long Way Home. “Frank Castle, Bruce Banner and Peter Parker are all on a mission to keep the Cube out of the wrong hands \u2013 including each other’s. In this three-way free-for-all for the power of the cosmos, who will come out on top?”<\/p>\n

“I’m so happy to be working with Adam Kubert again and even happier that we’re getting to work on Spider-Man: Long Way Home,” Hickman says in a statement. “Absolutely no one is going to see this one coming.”<\/p>\n

“[Editor Jordan D. White] barely got the words out before I yelled ‘Yes!’ to Spider-Man: Long Way Home,” adds Kubert. “A five-issue Hickman saga with Spidey, Hulk, and Punisher? Total no-brainer. With Frank Martin making the mayhem pop! Just Make Mine Marvel!”<\/p>\n

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Spider-Man: Long Way Home #1 goes on sale June 17 followed by the theatrical release of Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/a> on July 31. While we wait, it’s a perfect time to dig into the best Spider-Man comics<\/a> of all time as well as the best Spider-Man movies<\/a> of all time, ranked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spider-Man: Brand New Day arrives in theaters this summer, and the three main stars of the movie, Punisher,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-460108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}