Dan Slott possibly spoiled his own storyline on Twitter, with a message to Superior Spider-Man artist Ryan Stegman that appeared to give away the identity of the new Spider-Man — or perhaps was meant to throw fans off the scent. All manner of potential spoilers once you click on the link.
Even though the tweet in question was deleted, this is the Internet; Comic Book Therapy managed to get a screencap of the tweet, which it posted online for posterity. Leaving a little space for what might be spoilers; scroll down if you want to see:
So, there you have it: the “superior” Spider-Man seems to be Miguel O’Hara, AKA Spider-Man 2099. Case closed, and what an embarrassing Twitter mistake for Slott, right…?
…Or, maybe not.
Maybe I’m giving Slott too much credit, but this feels like a red herring to me. For someone who spends as much time on Twitter as he does, I can’t help but think that the above tweet just doesn’t feel like a Direct Message accidentally made public. Not that that’s impossible; I think that everyone on Twitter has accidentally done that at some point or another. But when it happens, it normally looks different: Given the limited real estate on a Tweet, the writer would surely notice that there’s an “@[name here]” taking up some of those 140 characters, and either delete it – It’s a Direct Message, you don’t need it – or realize that they’re writing a public message. Also, “DM me back” feels a bit too on the nose, too “this was meant to be a Direct Message, get it?”, to me; why so specific?
Add to that, the fact that Slott has been playing out a lot of the Superior Spider-Man response on Twitter so far, sharing the outrageous over-reactions from fans to the news that Peter is being replaced, however temporarily – And anyone who really believes that this changeover is permanent, Joe Biden has a bridge he wants to try and sell you (Especially considering that the last time Amazing Spider-Man was relaunched, it had a very similar “And Peter’s not Spider-Man!” hook… as well as an earlier version of the Horizon Labs idea, weirdly enough. Who’d've thought that the Byrne/Mackie era would’ve been such a big influence on Dan Slott?) – and very much playing to the crowd with the idea that this is such a big story that everyone’s up in arms. An attempt to fake out the Internet by “accidentally spoiling” the identity of the new Spider-Man through the service wouldn’t be entirely out of line with either his love of Twitter or his repeated use of teasers, dead-ends, red herrings and downright misinformation in the many, many “Who is…?” mysteries scattered throughout his Amazing run.
I could be very wrong, of course, and it really was a mistake. We’ve only got a couple of months before we’ll know for sure. Part of me almost hopes that it is Miguel as the new Spider-Man; I really enjoyed the original 2099 series way back when, and there’s more than a little humor for me in the fact that it would mean that not one, but two, NOW! series would be based around a time travel hook.
October 25th, 2012 at 9:50 am
I also think that pulling Miguel from 2099 to NOW! would potentially make for some terrific stories. Spidey 2099 was a fun read up until Peter David left the book and they decided to consolidate the 2099 books.
We all now it’ll be temporary, but I’m all for new, interesting stories.
October 25th, 2012 at 9:51 am
^^^^ now should be know.
October 25th, 2012 at 10:03 am
If this is going to bring back the orignal Spider-man 2099 then I’m all about it.
October 25th, 2012 at 10:03 am
If Slott knows DMs exist, and if this was such a spoiler, why would he not send a DM to begin with?
Come on, people.
October 25th, 2012 at 10:20 am
Well, regardless – even if Miguel O’Hara is the “Miguel” that’s mentioned, it still doesn’t mean that Miguel is Spider-Man. he might be a supporting character or even the villain for all we know… (THAT might be the red herring…)
October 25th, 2012 at 10:31 am
To be fair, Mr. Slott has been fairly candid about the whole thing. A buddy of mine spoke with him with at NYCC and while he did not come out and reveal Superior Spidey’s identity, he did say it would open the door to dark and WEIRD stories (not dark and GRITTY ones) and that we would not be surprised by who this character was (i.e. we know them and they know what they’re doing. Miguel O’Hara fits both of those qualifications).
October 25th, 2012 at 10:59 am
does anyboy else belives that peter may end forced to kill doc ock and thats the reason why he stops being spider-man i mean he said to madam web the day he kills he stops being spider-man
October 25th, 2012 at 11:00 am
I thinking that the superior spider-man may not have spider powers….. ok hear me out the retractile claws may be there because he can’t do wall-crwaling in fact i had the idea that it may be curt connors back being human but with some lizard abilites that let him replicate spidey’s powers
October 25th, 2012 at 11:00 am
As my name suggests, I was a fan of (some) of the 2099 books. I read Spidey and Doom 2099 every month until I finally had to jump ship cause the stories and the artwork was tanking(the artwork on the last few issues of Doom were absolutely awful – seriously, that’s my top 5 worst). Little did I know that behind the scenes political shenanigans was the cause of this demise. Anyways, Spidey 2099′s popularity has been making a resurgence the last couple years, so this could be true. But I doubt this is on the level.
October 25th, 2012 at 11:04 am
I just would hope that if a new person is really going to be Spider-Man, that he would have appeared in the ASM by this point. You cant just introduce a character 1 issue before he becomes Spider-Man and expect people to be okay with it/believe that he will keep the mantle for long.
October 25th, 2012 at 11:07 am
so gullible…
October 25th, 2012 at 11:14 am
Didn’t the Point One issue hint at some timey-wimey shenanigans ahead in the MU? So it’s plausible that both time-travel events are related. Maybe next year’s event?
October 25th, 2012 at 12:12 pm
And Dan wrote Shattered Dimensions, so maybe he was interested in writing more Miguel.
October 25th, 2012 at 12:53 pm
I’m going to coin a new phrase right now. it’s called Wertham’s Razor, in reference to the unwritten law of superhero fans completely ignoring the simplest most obvious answer to create the most convoluted senseless fantasy theories ever in order to justify their belief in even the most ridiculous of rumors.
October 25th, 2012 at 1:38 pm
so gullible, no way its gonna be spider-man 2099
October 25th, 2012 at 1:43 pm
Saw this yesterday….its too good to be true….dans just playing with the fans I think…..
October 25th, 2012 at 2:19 pm
Take a look at one of the covers for “superior” spidey #1 as well as some design images that are out and you can SEE he is extending small “talons” that look very very similar to Spider-man 2099…. just sayin’
October 25th, 2012 at 2:22 pm
I still say its Kaine. Don’t ask, I just do…
October 25th, 2012 at 3:26 pm
He has the singular talon on his foot that the Spider-Man 2099 in Shattered Dimensions had as well. I’m inclined to think it’s Miguel. I just hope it’s the original Miguel and not the younger version from Timestorm 2009-2099.
The adult Miguel has a lot in common with Peter considering they’re both scientists.
October 25th, 2012 at 3:41 pm
In the january solicitations there is a variant cover of superior Spider-Man by Giuseppe Camuncoli:
http://i.newsarama.com/images/supsm2013001_camunvar_02.jpg
if you see his hands you will notice the claw things are looks like from Miguel O’Hara.
http://images.wikia.com/marveldatabase/images/0/05/Spider-Man_2099_Vol_1_3_page_10_Miguel_O'Hara_(Earth-928).jpg
I hope that it’s him it will a cool story seeing Miguel in the present.
October 25th, 2012 at 5:08 pm
At one of the convention panels, Slott made a comment about “where have we seen those before?” (video off a newsarama link…)
Isn’t Spidey 2099 on the cover of 700? Only one not from Marvel 616 though…
…but Ben Riley is there too as the only other non-Peter besides Miguel on the cover (in two costumes no less)
“Quesada made a comment about the eyes” on the Marvel NOW! intro cover, look at the eyes on the 700 cover of the big guy w/ his back turned in the back, thats the new Superior Spidey, I say…
…& isn’t the Spider-Man The Complete Ben Reilly Epic Volume 6 just wrapping it all up… in time for a come back?
Would Dan return to the clones?
…Kaine’s still kickin’
…weird family reunion w/ a dark Ben?
October 25th, 2012 at 5:54 pm
A while ago, maybe 3 weeks or so I saw a tweet between Ryan Stegman and Dan Slott mentioning Miguel and Superior Spider-Man. I forget the exact wording but it came across as an attempt at making whoever read it think it was a mistweeted DM.
So between that and this new one which reads the same to me, I’m sure it’s them just having fun and seeing who’ll report on it.
October 25th, 2012 at 7:07 pm
I was honestly going to drop all of the Marvel NOW! stuff, for a variety of reasons, including Spider-Man, which was incredibly difficult for me simply because Slott’s been phenomenal through his whole run.
If it’s Miguel… I take it the shock back.
October 25th, 2012 at 8:06 pm
How about this, Dr. Ock puts his intellegence in Peter’s, which would make him Superior, he would still Peter but with Otto’s weirdness this i think is the real twist, since we see that Peter is on other teams.
October 26th, 2012 at 2:16 am
So we got a gay black Spider-Man in Ultimate, and now a Mexican future Spider-Man in 616. Sort of like Medieval Spawn etc., except with minorities.
October 26th, 2012 at 3:28 am
Because they said that Spidey would be back with MJ, I always thought that MJ and that character were together at some point, that’s why I can’t help but think Harry Osborn as the new Spidey. It would make a lot of sense with all he’s been through recently, acknowledging Spidey for helping him and definitely stepping off the goblin legacy…
Sure it doesn’t explain the talons though…
October 26th, 2012 at 4:34 am
“So we got a gay black Spider-Man in Ultimate”
I thought the Ultimate Spider-man was Miles Morales. Who are you thinking of?
October 26th, 2012 at 6:10 am
@No
I was thinking the same thing. Some late night talk show host labeled him as gay for some reason when it was first launched. I don’t see any indications of that. He’s half black and half latino, not gay and black.
I would love to see a new person in the Spidey suit….wait, we have that in the Ultimate Universe. Why the need to put a new person in the suit in 616? Just make new heroes, Marvel.
October 26th, 2012 at 8:51 am
I already suspected that the new “Superior Spider-Man” was Miguel O’Hara because of that picture showing the barbs on his fingertips. If that’s the case and the cat may be out of the bag, hopefully they will not change the whole story, like DC did with “Armageddon 2001″ when it was leaked that the villain Monarch was actually Captain Atom, so DC quickly did a rewrite and made Monarch Hank Hall (Hawk, of Hawk & Dove) instead. Hopefully Marvel wouldn’t do something as lame as ruin their entire story just to preserve one “gotcha moment”.
October 26th, 2012 at 6:16 pm
“Just make new heroes, Marvel.”
They do. Then no one buys their books, they get cancelled, and the characters fall into obscurity. See: Runaways, Gravity, etc. People only REALLY buy the big stuff. The Spider-X-Avengers stuff. They let everything else sit on the shelf.
October 26th, 2012 at 8:42 pm
Dan Slott did say another Dan Slott was writing the book. Peter could appear to be dead to protect his identity, but still be Peter with a different name. Could also be Ben Reilly.
OR… Peter could have been BEN all this time since the whole Mephisto thing. We never really DID find out what MJ’s deal with Mephisto was…
October 27th, 2012 at 4:41 am
@RobHater: I thought they revealed that in the “One Moment in Time” arc.
October 28th, 2012 at 7:59 am
I think Miguel seems like the obvious one, with those claws.. but almost too obvious with Slott’s tweets, like some of you have mentioned, he is a pro-tweeter.
Ben Riley seems likely since they just let out that Ben Riley trade out of no where. In Scarlet Kain has brought up Ben recently.
My two wildcards are Miles, and Alpha.
In Spider-Men 5, Peter looks up Miles in thr 616, and is shocked at what he finds. But they do not elaborate.. Could he maybe search for 616 Miles and convince him to be spidey? The black costumes????
Alpha was a big event, that just dropped…
I remember Pete saying to Alpha something like, ‘there will be another time when we need you, but with a mask’ or something like that.
I am pretty pumped about it to say the least..
October 28th, 2012 at 10:48 am
(My longer drawn out speculation I posted on a fourm)
Yeah, I don’t belive for a second it is Miguel. It was never officially released as Miguel O’Hara. I mean ifit is, then whatever. But if Dan is so worried about not spoiling it, he wouldnt let that slip. I PROMISE! Maybe they introduce O’Hara somehow, but I don’t think he will be THE “SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN”.
My thoughts are still open, and I still have O’Hara on my list. But I’m leaning a different direction..
5. Ben Reilly-(Wildcard) A lot of talk from Kaine about Ben in Scarlet Spider. Plus the Ben Reilly Epic trade that came out.
4/3. Alpha/or a Alpha Clone (What else was Alpha for, seriously) – He happened, and ended. Pete said something like “Maybe we will try this again, with a mask, and not as Alpha”. Or one of the clones that Jackel created got away.
2. Miguel O’Hara-( Most obvious) Claws, claws.. and.. claws! Slott has been tweeting about “Miguel” but like i said, it seems almost TOO obvious. Another nugget would be that Slott loves Dr.Who, so maybe they are leaning toward time travel.
1. Miles Morales-(Mainly what I really want to happen) The end of Spider-Men #5 where Pete’s back in 616 and looks up Miles Morales ..What did he find! Annnd the black costume.. Spider-Men was brilliant, and I can def. get into where that left of. There is also the frames in Spider-Man year one where he saves a random black kid who has “MORALES” on his jacket. Which was when Peter was younger, so now that years have gone by, Miles may be older. He may be someone Pete knows, or someone that changed their name MILES Warren, MILES O’hara/Miguel MORALES, etc (reason for Pete;s reaction in Spider-Men 5). Off comic continuity, they are also teasing Morales in the Ultimate Spidey show on XD. He was in episode 21 as an older Miles.
Maybe it’s a whole new character, but speculation is fun. I would not count on Slott spoiling his baby.
October 28th, 2012 at 11:38 am
Alpha makes a lot of sense as the new Spiderman… for one, Peter is constantly mentioning how he reminds him so much of himself and his jealousy that he was doing things Peter never did. And why bring in a new character like that only to drop them NOW?
October 28th, 2012 at 11:41 am
I heard that Red Hulk was meant to be Glen Talbot and they changed it to General Ross because fans guessed Red Hulk’s identity too soon. If that story is true, I hope they don’t do the same here. Miguel as a time displaced Spider-Man could be fun for a couple of arcs. I’d hate for them to feel compelled to change Superior Spider-man’s identity on accounts of a slip up. From what we’ve seen, Miguel makes sense. His stories had a darker edge. He and Pete are similar heights and builds. Superior Spidey has clawed/ pointy things on his fingers just like Miguel had. Let’s just keep him as Miguel and move on. Plus it gives Pete the chance to take a break. Between his three super team memberships, full time job, solo adventures and team up book, he needs the vacay.
October 28th, 2012 at 11:59 am
RobHater, we did find out what Mephisto and MJ talked about.
MJ realized that Mephisto’s deal to save Aunt May was really aimed at her, since Mephisto knew that Peter would never contemplate it unless MJ was on board. So Mephisto basically tricked MJ into “making the deal” by having her give Peter permission to erase their marriage from existence, by pitching it as Mephisto making a deal with Peter.
MJ realizes what Mephisto did and extracted her “payment” from Mephisto, in the form of a vow that if he EVER came near Peter again, if he EVER made contact with Peter in any shape or way or form or got involved in Peter’s life, that Mephisto’s deal with the Parkers would be null and void and he would have to restore reality back to normal and restore their marriage.
October 28th, 2012 at 12:00 pm
i’ve always want miguel back in one form or another so looking forward to seeing this, maybe he and alpha will throw down because of him not being the original
October 29th, 2012 at 5:39 pm
This is a great post, I think you should turn it into a 2 or 3 part series.
October 30th, 2012 at 12:02 pm
A spiderman title without your MAN Superhero character like PETER PARKER is just plain dumb… I have been a marvel fan for 30 yrs and franly I wish they stop with all this crap and keep Peters character going. They had such a good rythm going in the “BACK IN BLACK” series, that was a pissed off darker Peter, I guess everyone forgot that??? This whole new idea to replace Peter Parker in BOTH titles (Ulitmate-I dropped Miles sucks, looks like a young Obama, and amazing-Awaiting if that is another minority, will drop that as well…) I read all comments on here and sounds like everyone is glad Peter is not Spiderman any more and you call yourselves Spiderman fans? Give me a break, we all need to BAN Slots books and not pick them up but, that will never happen..
October 30th, 2012 at 1:20 pm
I love the idea that Spider-Man could be involved in a time travel arc and we see Miguel from the 2099 timeline. So if this is at all probable this begs the question…who else is not from our home timeline? Why has the FF gone to another dimension, why has Cap been banished to dimension Z? How can the series Wolverine be cancelled? That does not compute in all timelines! I am very excited about Marvel Now!
November 1st, 2012 at 2:35 pm
Chris: “Miles sucks, looks like a young Obama.”
“if that is another minority, [I will] drop that as well…”
Smelling a bit o’prejudice
November 4th, 2012 at 8:10 pm
superior spiderman is not Miguel O’Hara in the preview pages of superior #1 the shows spiderman using his trademark hand gesture to shoot webbing, which hits at web shooters possibly. it could not be miguel seeing as his webs are organic and shoot from the top of his wrists.
November 6th, 2012 at 10:11 am
Superior gets me for the first three issues out of curiosity. After that, I’m out. I may drop all marvel books over this. Peter Parker is the character I care about NOT Spider-Man . Dc replaced there most popular character (Batman) 2 years ago, but I could live with that because Dick Grayson becoming Batman was a natural progression. That does not exist in Spider-Man’s universe , and I sincerely hope slotted doesn’t do Nything that can’t be easy rewritten to Peter in is hue 700. If he dies, I will drop all Marvel books.
November 9th, 2012 at 4:59 am
@Joe. Peter Ain’t Dying. Read the post. You except Nightwing but you can’t except a temporary change for ‘ole Spidey. C’Mon!
November 10th, 2012 at 1:13 am
@Javila
Why the **** do you WANT Miles to be the new Spider-Man? Isn’t him replacing Peter on the Ultimate universe ENOUGH for you?
November 11th, 2012 at 9:44 pm
I don’t see the point of buying superior spiderman if you kill Peter Parker or somebody else will be superior spider. I just read last marvel previevs and seen that in 2013 will have premiere album Spiderman :dying wish (collection of ASM from 9 hundred something to 700) , and also that “the story of Peter Parker dramatically ended in ASM 700″ . Do you guys remember what happend when Jean Paul Valley was Batman instead of Bruce Wayne ? – well, I remember , and I tell ya something – it was bad !Can’t you learn on that mistake with Batman? The idea with replacement Peter Parker, is like idea to replace Donald Duck or Mickey Mouse or Luke Skywalker with somebody else ! And if Peter Parker won’t be Spiderman it will be the worse thing ever! This will be your shot in the head!
November 14th, 2012 at 2:46 am
I really don’t understand Marvel’s fascination with changing Spider-Man. How about we kill off Wolverine or Cyclops and replace them with someone who has the exact same set of abilities? Oh wait thats idiotic. Why not just dig deep and do some real character development like we saw in big time and the AMAZING Spider Island story? Get it together Marvel. In addition, if Peter is Killed off again I’m done with Marvel all together. If Peter isn’t Spider-Man, I’m done with Spider-Man completely.
November 15th, 2012 at 5:49 pm
At first I had my theory about Sup Spidey I thought he could be a caracter like Ghost Rider turned into Spider Man or something but I really think he’s Miguel and that Slott could nt resist to make people eager to read this new comic and then I think about spider man death and I don’t think Doc Ock kill s him I think Morbius does the killing.Some will regret it a short time then come the new gig…comic are cool lol
November 19th, 2012 at 12:42 am
He has the claws on his fingers just like spiderman 2099
November 21st, 2012 at 7:17 pm
So, i think that now when Doc Ock mind is in d body of Peter Parker and he died as a Octopus , somehow in ASM 700 -Spiderman with d mind of Dr. Ock will be killed and Peter Parker will be back with new powers as a diffrent person , couse it’s not his time.
November 24th, 2012 at 2:15 am
I was pissed when Marvel did the “Brand New Day” reboot. Yes the stories were good but every story arc that they did during that time could have been done with Peter and MJ still married with the exception of when Peter goes out on a date.
If they wanted to have Peter and MJ split it would have been very easy to do and not change 30 odd years of canon with oh here is what really happened at this point and here is what happened at this point.
What I would have loved to have seen is that Aunt May ended up dying and Peter just snaps and goes back and kills the Kingpin. MJ cant handle the fact that Peter killed out of rage and they separate. Now Peter/Spider-Man is on the run as he has just killed someone in cold blood. You can still have Doc Strange do his magic to make people forget that he is Spider-Man and that he killed Kingpin but have it happen kind of the way that “Brand New Day” happened and have it that MJ still knows the truth and you can still do every story that was done after the whole Mephisto thing and not alter the history.
Also I just read isue #897 and want to know why Peter/Spider-Man’s spider scenes did not kick in when he was walking into see Doc-Ock?
November 27th, 2012 at 8:28 pm
Dan Slott is an INCREDIBLY jocular, sarcastic man if you read his tweets. This is no doubt an intentional gag.
November 28th, 2012 at 9:15 pm
its most likely miguel o’hara.. i think the reason he leaked it was because he thought that all the “its going to be doc oct” stuff was going to ruin sales.
December 6th, 2012 at 10:14 am
Not Miguel – as much it would be cool its him..
My Guess: Pure Speculation
Its Peter from an alternative timeline..
Also could be Norman Osborn .. now obsessed with the realization with the ideal spider-man is better then him so now he wants to take his mantle away..
Anyway will soon find out
December 14th, 2012 at 8:38 am
Nah!!!!!It`s just Doctor Who doing the raggedy spider stuff…lol