J. Michael Straczynski’s ‘Amazing Spider-Man: Torn’ #1 announced

Superstar Spider-Man writer J.Michael Straczynski teams up with artist Pere Pérez in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: TORN, a five-issue series launching in October.

One of Spider-Man’s most legendary writers is swinging back into action this fall. J. Michael Straczynski, the acclaimed mind behind one of the most beloved runs in Amazing Spider-Man history, is back for Amazing Spider-Man: Torn—a brand-new five-issue limited series launching this October.

Straczynski is teaming up with fan-favorite artist Pere Pérez (TVA, Venom War: Carnage) to tell a story that takes readers back to Peter Parker’s college days at Empire State University. Expect appearances from Gwen Stacy, Harry Osborn, MJ, and Flash Thompson—plus classic villains and an all-new threat that could shake the Marvel Universe to its core.

While longtime fans have been hoping for JMS to return to Spidey for years, Torn offers something fresh: a gripping new chapter that dives deep into an unexplored part of Peter’s past—one that could have major implications for the present.

“JMS wrote some of my all-time favorite Spidey issues,” said Spider-Man editor Nick Lowe. “When he said he wanted to come back, I was already leaping at the opportunity—and twisting my ankle in the process! And teaming him with Pere Pérez, one of comics’ most inventive artists? We’re incredibly lucky.”

Pérez added, “As a huge fan of Spider-Man and JMS, working on this book has been a dream. The action scenes are a blast to draw, but it’s the emotional moments and character dialogue that are surprising me the most. This book has everything: heart, excitement—and yes, a new villain!”

Don’t miss the debut of Amazing Spider-Man: Torn on October 8, 2025.

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/06/18/amazing-spider-man-torn-1/

Boomer writers can't write.

You know I'm starting to think the people running Marvel aren't evil after all. They're just really fucking retarded.

Didn't he just write that stupid dinner book that nobody wanted?

>>149136684 (OP)
>Straczynski is teaming up with fan-favorite artist Pere Pérez (TVA, Venom War: Carnage) to tell a story that takes readers back to Peter Parker’s college days at Empire State University. Expect appearances from Gwen Stacy, Harry Osborn, MJ, and Flash Thompson
Give us more Gwen/Norman content, JMS!

>>149136684 (OP)
Best news I've gotten in the last 5 years. Thank you Stan Lee.

>the man who's singlehandedly responsible for ruining spider-man
>/co/ celebrates
You fucking retards, that's like cheering for Bendis or King.

>>149136883
>singlehandedly responsible for ruining Spider-Man
Anon, you're thinking of Slott. This is Straczynski. I know it can be confusing since both their names start with an S

>>149136892
Things were already fucked before Slott retard.
>Morlun and spider-totem
>Sins past
>Omd
>9/11
>Couple of new literal who villains no one but the hacks like Slott or Wells care to remember
That's all under JMS.

>>149136774
No, it's all intentional. Marvel is just harvesting negative emotions to feed to Lord Moloch, the insane demon god who hates everything good.

>>149136684 (OP)
Uh oh, looks like it’s bad times ahead for Gwenschizo! Terrible news for him!

>>149136913
The only one of those things that's actually bad was OMD, and that was Quesada's fault, JMS was just the hired gun.

The totem stuff wasn't great, but it didn't ruin everything because nobody else writing Spider-Man cared about it at the time.

>>149136913
OMD, at the very least, was a diktat from Quesada.

>>149136836
>Give us more Gwen/Norman content, JMS!
Oh no man this is a different kind of story. Since We now know for sure Gwen is a mutant this will explore her X-Gene origin. And it will feature MJ bangin norman becoming pregnant with him and having secret kids which peter was never aware of. But seriously I doubt it will be anything bad nor will they dirty Gwen again given she is now back among the living. Sins Past has been made non-canon and it's staying that way for sure.

>>149136976
He told me on social media that Q didn't bully him into writing it but I gotta wonder

>>149136982
We already know that Gwen Stacy is back as an evil WHORE that murdered Gwendolyn Pool out of cruelty and retardation. Back to Poland with you, Gwenschizo!

>>149136989
He wasn't bullied, but the deal he made was that he could write them as a couple again if he promised to write the story to make the marriage non-existent. He voluntarily entered that arrangement.

>>149136982
What's it like being this gay?

>>149136974
>>149136976
>h-he didn't want to write it!...
Holy cope

>>149137011
>enters a heavily coerced deal to be forced to write a story about a heavily coerced deal
That’s completely Polish.

>>149137023
I am not gay I am just a pedophile, furthermore this is spam and you better be careful because the mods hate spam

>>149137029
He might have loved it and touched himself at night about it, I don't know, but the point is that "Peter and MJ's marriage must end" came from Quesada.

>>149137069
>Gwenschizo is back to bragging about being a pedophile again
Oh well. People just can’t change I guess.

>>149136774
theyre hoping nostalgia bait gets back readers, but dont understand its CONTINUITY that keeps them. OMD ruined continuity and literally the very soul of Spidey.

>>149137069
What kind of retard actually admits to that? You belong in prison, pedo.

>>149137090
I'll save this thread!

IT'S PAULLLLLLIN' TIIIIIIIIIME!

>>149137111
He's so adorably loathsome, why can't he annoy every other title set in NYC

>>149137095
Which is why Ultimate Spider-Man is succeeding while ASM continues to dwindle. Unburdening the IP of bad continuity to start fresh.

>>149136684 (OP)
It could be good news as long as editorial keeps their hands off.

>>149137029
Spider-Office is infamous for editorial meddling and micromanagement more than any other in Marvel or comics in general.

>>149137029
When your editor says write this, you can either write it or find a new job. That's how comics work. Also, OMD was clearly written very tongue-in-cheek as the comic actually explains why the deal with Mephisto is a horrible idea in great detail. And apparently Mephisto is a cheeky stand-in for Quesada.

Ah yeah, it will surely be the same level of quality as his 2000s output and certainly won't have editorial's boot on his throat.

>>149137069
Kek, the Gwenschizo slithered right off again after he posted this.

>>149137111
>Schizo disappears
>Paulfag immediately appears
Odd that we’ve never seen Clark Kent and Supernerman at the same time…

>>149137007
Could you please not spam not the thread with your rubbish. At any rate worry about bigger things instead like how about the fact that MJ left peter for paul and that OMD has still not been undone. Those things are VERY much canon also MJ fans are very unhappy and upset that MJ is now Venom.

>>149137301
I like that MJ is Venom, I am planning to write a fic where Peter stays on as Symbiote Spider-Man but MJ ends up bonded to the Carnage Symbiote, ok but get this they’re still together and Peter helps MJ control her Symbiote and become a superhero teaming up with him. Do you want to hear more?

>>149137260
He already had editorial on this throat during the second half of his run. The flawed execution of Sins Past is all his, but he was told to make a big event centered on personal drama, and made it about Gwen/Norman when they told him the twins couldn't be Peter's. Peter joining the Avengers, moving into Avengers Tower, and everything dealing with Civil War were decisions made above him.

>>149137095
>nostalgia
Here's the funniest fucking part. Like 80% to 90% of the reason JMS' run was good is chemistry between Peter/MJ/Aunt May. Peter felt like an actual believable well-rounded character and so did his supporting cast. At times their interactions were more interesting than superhero shit.
Because let's be honest, the magic angle was pretty stupid and new villains were kind of shit.
With post-OMD intact, no amount of nostalgiabaiting will make it feel the same and we both know Marvel would rather bleed money and die on that stupid hill of theirs, than undo OMD.
So they can't even nostalgiabait right.

>>149136913
The worst part about Sins Past was something Quesada came up with and OMD was forced on him by Quesada. The totem stuff didn't hurt Spider-Man anywhere near as bad as the Spiderverse bullshit or the ten years of Peter being a man child or the stupid action figure costumes

>>149136913
>9/11
I will never unerstand /co/ harping on this one.
It's such a nothing burger of an issue that affected literally nothing and while stupid, the mindset behind it at the time was at least understandable.
It's one of the easiest thing to pretend never existed/aren't canon and move on.

>>149137511
It's because Marvel lost their minds after 9/11 they all stopped being heroes.

>>149137540
>It's because Marvel lost their minds after 9/11
Marvel and the population of the US in general

>>149137511
Doom crying and Magneto looking solemn were the only really dumb parts about it, but they were offensively dumb.

>>149137540
What does that have to do with JMS' run?
JMS did one mourning issue which in retrospect was pretty stupid, but affected nothing.
His Peter was still a superhero who cared about saving people.
And Alias came out before 9/11 which did a lot more damage and laid path for that cringe 2000s cynicism and sleaze
>>149137573
Yeah, but again, considering the overall mindset of the time it was understandable. It wasn't something written with logic in mind.

>>149137614
>2000s cynicism and sleaze
This is why I have a hard time reading that stuff.

Do you think the plan is for JMS to revive Harry?

>>149136684 (OP)
After he just botched a Captain American run?

>>149136883
>the man who's singlehandedly responsible for ruining spider-man
but enough about Nick Lowe

>>149137133
>Which is why Ultimate Spider-Man is succeeding
It's literally getting cancelled at #24, retard, along with other nu-ultimate titles.

>>149136913
>Morlun and spider-totem
That shit was good though
>Sins past
His original idea for it was kino
>Omd
Blame Brevoort and Quesada for it, not JMS
>9/11
Al-Qaeda did that, not JMS
>Couple of new literal who villains no one but the hacks like Slott or Wells care to remember
I remember.

>>149138240
Peter knocking up a girl in college and said kids having accelerated aging because of radioactive spider-blood was a stupid idea.

>>149138203
Wrong, that was already confirmed to be fake information. Zack Davisson talks out of his ass all the time. Don’t trust him for a second, and only someone like Gwenschizo would be dumb enough to take his word so blindly.

Marvel would have already announced the ending and relaunch by now if it were really happening.

>>149138203
Maker has to come back at SOME point so I get that they’re waiting for the end of the second year to have that happen

>>149136684 (OP)
>longtime fans have been hoping for JMS to return to Spidey for years

>>149138357
>Wrong, that was already confirmed to be fake information
Wrong that info is true dude Momoko made up that shit up in a pathetic attempt to discredit what Davisson said.

>>149138520
Right, because you trust a translator’s word over the actual writer, when everyone else who isn’t mentally ill realizes it was a nonissue. But then, I guess your respect for X-Men writers begins and ends with how convenient they are for you to vent your frustrations, you creepy little pedo. You’re just going to lose your mind again when solicits for USM issue 25 drops, you fucking know that right? But I guess that’s the best one can expect from the Polish.

>>149139275
Gwenschizo’s absolutely going to shit his diaper and flood the board like crazy when it happens. Can’t wait, honestly.

>>149137467
Spider-Verse exists BECAUSE of the spider-totem.Almost all of these crossovers have Morlun in it, and the one that doesn't involve JMS's shitty ass spider-killer OC Shantra

>>149139317
Morlun was actually kind of neat before Slott drove him into the ground. I liked how Jim Butcher handled Morlun and the rest of his “family” in his Spider-Man novel. Morlun having a family was also something snatched up by Slott, and then butchered into The Inheritors.

>>149137301
>Gwenschizo suddenly reappears
>>149137111
>Paulfag abruptly disappears

Well well well…

>>149138061
Didn't Harry JUST get killed again? Let the man cool off a bit first

>>149139572
That was in Hickman’s Ultimate, and he didn’t really die, Mysterio faked his death. Only Gwenschizo was genuinely fooled because the Polish and the pedophiles are both simple and naive creatures, and the schizo is this doubly so.

>>149139513
I saw a space that needed filling. Nature abhors a vacuum.

>>149139619
Don’t worry, you’ll shift right back to your Gwenschizo persona right after getting called on this.

>>149139614
He could be talking about Harry dying in Spencer’s run a few years back. I dunno I only remember JMS using doc Ock once he never seemed to have an interest in using the established rogues

>>149139275
The translator fucked up by revealing something he wasn't supposed to reveal yet. Any statements to the contrary are damage control. Hickman doesn't do forever runs, his stories have endings.

>>149139669
Hickman also does lengthy runs. 50+ issues are typical from him. We also know UXM and rest of Ultimate was renewed for another year past the Maker’s return… which is past issue 24.

At most they’ll revert the numbering, if that even happens. Otherwise they’d just announce that the line is cancelled.

>>149139643
Actually, I'll just return to waiting for the next opportunity to start Paulin' Time. I'm genuinely not affiliated with Gwenschizo, but hey, you've already decided that I am and nothing I could say will convince you that I'm not, so you're clearly not worth the effort of reasoning with you, and I'm just gonna keep pissing you off because it's easier and funnier.

>>149139741
If they're relaunching, at the very least X-Men will have a different creative team because he knows that #24 is the last issue for which he's slated and the end of their story. And it's too soon to announce these plans yet, that's why he had to go and delete everything.

>>149139831
Or it could be that he’s not getting his contract renewed, but Peach is staying…

>>149139754
No, I know you’re not really Gwenschizo, because you are capable of using commas and conjunctions. I just also want to piss one or both of you off as well. More likely the Gwenschizo, he’s a very over sensitive little fellow.

>>149136684 (OP)
Booooo

>>149140136
He knew from the start how long the contract would be. If Marvel had problems with his translations they would have moved to replace him already since they can also choose to end contracts early.

>>149139317
Morlun was just the vehicle Slott used, he would've done Spider-Verse even without Morlun, just would've used some other villain that didn't make any sense for the concept

>>149136684 (OP)
Daily reminder that only Spider-Man the Animated Series is canon and everything else is fanfiction. Even Lee and Ditko's shit.

>>149140555
>t. J Semper

>>149136883
One More day wasn't his idea, and was imposed to him by Quesada. He stopped writing the series soon after.

>>149138240
>That shit was good though
Agreed.

>>149136913
Sins Past was supposed to be about Peter secretly being a father and having his sons be raised by Norman. That'a why Grey Goblin looks more like Pete than Norm/Harry.
omd was all Quesada

>>149136684 (OP)
Will Peter actually be treated with respect for a change or will he be written as a emasculated manchild who gets insulted, rescued and or beaten up by a woman every issue?

>>149140882
lol
lmao
it'll be 3 issues of Gwen and MJ getting backshots from Norman and in the 4th Harry joins in after mailing pictures to Peter

>>149139754
>I'm genuinely not affiliated with Gwenschizo
Maybe don't post in the same thread as soon as he leaves like the two of you are a tag team? If you're not the same person, stop being the Billy Gunn to his Chuck Palumbo.

The original idea for Sins Past was also shit. The whole thing was shit from minute one

>>149140882
>Okay Mike in the second panel Peter is asking his current wife if his old college girlfriend lost her virginity to Norman Osborn. He's so distraught that he's crushing the window casing with his spider-grip. And then we cut to his own imagination of the two of them having sex.

>>149142824
This is never not going to be hilarious.

>>149142767
>The original idea for Sins Past was also shit.
Well, compared with Norman being the dad.

>>149142824
Absolutely based, one of the greatest moments in Norman's history, and the second of the two good Gwen stories.

>>149136684 (OP)
>Peter Parker’s college days at Empire State University
Oh great, more young peter pandering

>>149142767
This. JMS had a terrible idea and the editorial made it worse.

Sins Past 2
We are so back

>>149144454
Just in time for Spider-Gwen's 616 retcon.

>>149136684 (OP)
>one that could have major implications for the present.
Bring back the marriage, or fuck off.

>>149138240
>Al-Qaeda did that, not JMS
JMS wrote it.

>>149144805
>JMS is CIA
How deep does the hole go?

>>149136684 (OP)
Let me guess
JMS will finally cave to everyone begging him to fix Debra Whitman into what he wrote in TAS, on which everyone uses til this day in animation right?
Til Debra's hatred of Peter is because she lied to him and his friends and that one day will bite him, thus leading her to join alchemax in the present with her civil war shitshow retconned to work for Liz and Flash whom she reconnects again.

>>149137095
>continuity
irrelevant since 1991

>>149144478
Yes, it's called "Torn" because it's Gwen's costume that's getting torn off, in her insatiable lust for Norman.

>>149136774
Half of one, half of the other.

>>149142767
What was the original idea?

>>149146414
Pretty much the same thing except the kids were Peter's instead of Norman's

>>149146428
Oh. Thats just as dogshit.