“I wrote five issues of Amazing Spider-Man and had written two backups for Miles Morales: Spider-Man and I’m also writing the What If? Miles Morales they’re doing,” Ziglar says. He joked about regularly telling the Marvel editors, “‘I want to write Spider-Man, but if it’s a black Spider-Man? I’m the guy that you want to come to.’”

As he put it, the higher ups would tell him: “’Calm down. If it ever pops up again, we’ll let you know.’ One day they reached out to me. ‘Hey, not only is it a black Spider-Man, but it’s a black Spider-Man who’s into punk stuff.’ Great! Literally all my bases are covered! They saw how enthusiastic I was about the prospect and came to me for it.”

Now, if you haven’t seen Spider-Punk’s first non-team-up adventure, then you missed out on him taking down President Osborn and his symbiote army via the power of music, rebellion, and a very graphic guitar to the skull. Where does our hero go from there?

Ziglar compares taking down Osborn to “blowing up the Death Star,” meaning the aftermath is about dealing with the institution of the Empire.

“This is very much him saying, ’I’ve taken out the figurehead, but now I deal with the actual institution. How do I topple the actual institution?’ And for that, he has to put together a fun little team.”

A team? Ziglar is mostly tight-lipped on who to expect. Other than spending more time with Spider-Punk’s brother-in-arms Captain Anarchy, Ziglar did namedrop a variant of Riri Williams as part of Hobart’s heroic band. A band that should feature 4-5 members.

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