Scarlet Spider

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Time to get some Speedball back into your life. Marvel is relaunching New Warriors next month under the guidance of writer Christopher Yost and artist Marcus To, and at least three of readers' old favorites, Speedball, Nova (though presumably not the same Nova) and Justice, will be part of the team. New additions include Sun Girl, Scarlet Spider, and Hummingbird.

It looks like Hasbro will be paying equal attention to classic and contemporary character designs in its second relaunched Marvel Legends wave. Coming in 2013 will be Wrecking Crew members Wrecker and Bulldozer, the latest Kaine incarnation of the Scarlet Spider, Black Panther, modern and classic versions of Hawkeye, Age Of Apoclypse Jean Grey and a variant White Phoenix figure with a Rocket Racco

Today at the C2E2 expo in Chicago, Marvel elaborated on a number of major announcements they've been teasing of late. Perhaps the biggest news is the introduction of a new ongoing Hawkeye series by part of the acclaimed Immortal Iron Fist team of Matt Fraction and David Aja; meanwhile, Khoi Pham will be replacing Ryan Stegman on Scarlet Spider, with Stegman moving to help Jonathan Hickman wrap up

The talents at Marvel's Spider-Man panel at New York Comic Con included writer Dan Slott, artists Ryan Stegman and Paolo Rivera, and editors Stephen Wacker, Ellie Pyle and Thomas Brennan. The prodigious group highlighted upcoming developments for the legendary webslinger and a variety of related Spider-heroes and villains, as well as a few other books Wacker is responsible for editing including th

Gaming: New key art of the Joker from Batman: Arkham City has surfaced. He looks somewhat sicklier than normal. Movies: After numerous delays, the Vancouver Sun reports that The Wolverine will finally begin shooting in November. Costumes: New images from The Amazing Spider-Man show Spidey's new costume's soles...

Contrarians and irony-lovers aside, ask any Spider-Man fan their thoughts on the Scarlet Spider -- the unofficial poster boy of arguably one of the worst storyarcs in Spider-Man continuity, "The Clone Saga" -- and chances are you'll be covered in venom spit ("Venom Spit" is ™ and © Alan Moore). However, ...