Nearly two years have handed since followers obtained their first take a look at Insomniac Video games’ extremely anticipated sequel, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. And whereas we nonetheless don’t know particularly when that sport is popping out, or when a second trailer shall be launched, the story of the sport will start to come back to life on Might 6, aka Free Comedian E-book Day.
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PlayStation simply revealed that Insomniac and Marvel have teamed up on a comic book that may function a prequel to Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, which is anticipated to come back out later this 12 months on PlayStation 5.
“After we initially sat down with the workforce at Marvel, we explored a couple of totally different concepts about what sorts of tales we might inform in a prequel comedian,” Jon Paquette, the narrative director at Insomniac, wrote. “However we saved coming again to the identical core premise—What if Peter, Miles, and MJ needed to workforce up towards a brand new supervillain whose powers they didn’t perceive? Moreover, we wished to make it possible for we might get a peek into what this heroic trio has been doing for the reason that occasions of Marvel’s Spider-Man and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales. What’s Pete so far that there are two Spider-Males within the metropolis? How is Miles doing in class? And the way is MJ’s journalism profession going?”
Which, let’s be trustworthy, is the large query. How IS MJ’s journalism profession going? Why wasn’t that given its personal spinoff sport ala Miles Morales? We might by no means know.
Critically although, the supervillain in query is none apart from the Hood and he’ll apparently make Peter and Miles query every thing. “On this story, their lives collide as Peter, Miles, and MJ try and steadiness their duties to the town, and one another. They preserve coming again to one of many fundamental themes of the comedian: is magic actual?” Paquette mentioned.
The Spider-Man 2 prequel comedian was written by Christos Gage that includes artwork by Ig Guara, and it’ll be accessible at collaborating comedian ebook outlets on Free Comedian E-book Day, which is Might 6. It’ll even be accessible for obtain on Marvel Limitless within the U.S. that day and worldwide someday sooner or later. Right here’s the complete cowl.
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