Saladin Ahmed and Garry Brown's 1980s Alien Costume flashback in next Annual

[Mister Mets]

Promising announcement about the next Amazing Spider-Man annual.

Press Release

What goes bump in the night? The answer might surprise you…

When Spider-Man made his return from an alien world some years ago, he didn’t just come back with new adventures under his belt – he also returned with a special new costume! But Peter soon learned that the costume was more than just a suit…it was a living alien symbiote, and one who had set its sights on bonding to him permanently. Despite rejecting the suit that would eventually become Venom, Peter had no idea that late at night, the symbiote had its own ideas…

This September, prepare for an all-new nightmare fairytale as Hugo nominee Saladin Ahmed, fresh off his Eisner nominated book Black Bolt, takes his acclaimed storytelling to the Spider-verse. Along with superstar artist Garry Brown (Iron Patriot), the two creators weave a tale of mystery, tension and drama as they answer the question everyone wants to know: just what was the symbiote doing with Peter during those secretive nighttime excursions?

“AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL is an untold street-level story of the brief bond that existed between Pete and the alien symbiote that would eventually become Venom,” said Ahmed. “This is my tribute to the Spider-Man I grew up reading in the early 1980s — the messed up and confused Peter Parker who came back from an alien world with a new costume and new problems as Gang Wars tore through the streets of Manhattan. That era of Marvel storytelling had a profound influence on me, and it’s an absolute thrill to come back to it by writing Marvel’s most iconic hero. Walking this line between nostalgia and a modern story requires a really skilled artist, and Garry has knocked it out of the park on that front. His work has all the pulpy excitement of the Bronze Age without wallowing in the past. Spider-fans are going to love this book!”

A collaborator on Marvel’s upcoming Immortal Hulk #3, Brown’s “Saladin and Garry are absolutely tapping into the heart of the fan-favorite alien costume storyline while bringing something new to bear,” added editor Mark Basso. “Like a lot of people, I read and re-read those original stories and those bits of Peter completely drained, sleeping through whole days after the symbiote took him through mysterious unconscious adventures, always felt like a story waiting to be told. So it’s really a dream project for the team, even if it’s a nightmare for Peter Parker.”

[Frontier]

Cool to see Salidin Ahmed writing Spider-Man (and Peter instead of Miles, no less) .

Not really sure what he can add to the Black Costume Saga, assuming he doesn't pull a retcon to make it more like it's usually depicted in most media adaptions), though it seems like he's going to lean more into the psychological horror aspect of what was going on between Peter and the suit.

[Jman27]

Anything with the black suit is okay with me

[KurtW95]

I’m sorry, but I just can’t bring myself to support anything this guy writes considering the hateful stuff he regularly posts on social media.

[comicscollector]

Cool.
That Spider-Man Annual will be a must buy to me,i think that period of time after Spider-Man got the Symbiotic costume after Secret Wars and that had the Gang Wars storyline in the Spidey stories is a great era to make Untold Spider-Man stories.

[Digifiend]

Weird that it's not written by Spencer, but being set in the past it's unlikely to directly tie to current events anyway.