Spider-Man and Deadpool: Friends No More

This bromance is coming to an end.

By Blair Marnell

Spider-Man and Deadpool won’t be on good terms in Marvel's Legacy relaunch, but they are getting a new creative team! At the Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends panel at SDCC today, Marvel announced that writer Robbie Thompson and artist Chris Bachalo will be the new creative team on Spider-Man vs. Deadpool.

As you may have noticed, that is a slight name change for the book formerly known as Spider-Man/Deadpool. This appears to play into the idea that Deadpool is revisiting his villainous roots in Marvel Legacy, as also seen with the re-branding of his own title as "The Despicable Deadpool." Also at the panel, it was revealed that Spider-Man vs. Deadpool will have interlude issues with flash-forwards of Peter Parker and Wade Wilson as old men living in a retirement home.

Spider-Man/Deadpool #8 cover by Ed McGuinness. (Marvel Comics)

Both Thompson and Bachalo have previous Spider-Man experience. Thompson wrote the flashback series Spidey and the spinoff series Silk, while Bachalo has drawn various issues of Amazing Spider-Man.

Thompson and Bachalo will officially take over the book in November with Spider-Man vs. Deadpool #23.

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