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Warning : Contains SPOILERS for Spider - Punk : Arms Race # 4!Spider - Manfans should be very intimate withSpider - Punkfollowing his multiversal escapade in theSpider - Versemovies ( specificallySpider - Man : Across the Spider - Verse ) , but that film dealership has n’t even scratched the surface of how powerful this version of the web - head really is . In Spider - Punk ’s on-going comic series , Hobie Brown get some epic new armor that easily makes him one of the Spider - Verse ’s impregnable sub , and he just used it against an equally powerful interlingual rendition of an iconicSpider - Mansupervillain , Doc Ock .
In a preview forSpider - tinder : Arms Race#4 by Cody Ziglar and Justin Mason , Spider - Punk and his work party , the Spider - Band , are look off against Doc Ock , who ’s piloting a elephantine mech - suit dubbed the Spider - Slayer . Doc Ock debut the prototype Spider - Slayer in a late issue , but now , readers are seeing the real Spider - Slayer Sentinel in activity for the first time . While the Spider - Band was taken off - guard by this Cthulhu - esque mecha - kaiju when it assail the first time , they were more than prepared for it this metre with their very own mech - suit : the Spider - Van Mech .
After a tense stand - off in the chess opening pageboy , the two battle - robots quickly spring into legal action . Doc Ock ’s Spider - Slayer launch the first strike with a massive energy attack from its decoration , which the Spider - Van blocks before launching a countermove of World Wide Web - shots that do some major damage to the Spider - Slayer . Then , the Spider - Van launches another onset , shooting one of its machinelike hands like a heater from a shooter flat at the Spider - Slayer . And in trueSpider - Punkfashion , the hired man was n’t balled into a fist , but was rather produce a motion that required hilariously meta censoring .
Gwen Stacy aka Spider - Gwen has officially joined Marvel Comics ' Earth-616 , and she has done so with one awesome update to her wanderer - Cuban sandwich costume !
The Spider-Van Mech Matches Spider-Punk’s Affinity for Violence in the Name of Revolution
The Spider - Van Mech was construct by Riri Williams aka Riotheart using Wakandan tech , as revealed prior to its debut inSpider - Punk : Arms Race # 3 !
Hobie Brown is about as far from Peter Parker as one could get in terms of a Spider - Man variant , and one of the main reasons for that is the human race in which he live . Spider - Punk ’s world is one that was reign over by a totalitarian regime with Norman Osborn as its principal , and the only means to fight a fascist system that ’s totally take command is with unrelenting violence and total anarchy .
Spider - Punk became the living antithesis of a corrupt system , and before the event of this comic even train place , Hobie Brown kill Norman Osbornhimself . That ’s something Peter Parker could never do , yet Hobie did so without giving it a second thought , as he did it to support the anarchical gyration of those standing against tyranny . And now , with his all - new mech - suit , Spider - Punk has a weapon that can adequately match the level of violence he ’s ready to commit in edict to hold open his earth .
The Spider-Van Mech is a Perfect Nod to Spider-Punk’s Punk Rock Roots
As readers can clearly see in this prevue , Spider - Punk ’s mech - suit is squall the Spider - Van Mech because the head of the machine is literally the Spider - Van . This van is essentially a 2d home base to the Spider - Band , as it enthrall them and their instruments from gig to gig . The way the Spider - Band feels about the Spider - Van is a persuasion shared by everyone in a punk band , that being the van itself is just as much a member of the band as any of the musicians . And now , just like the member who ride in it , the van itself drive a ‘ superhero ’ upgrade .
Everything about this mech - courting upgrade is perfectly on - brand for the Spider - Punk series , and the total hood rock music aesthetic it work to charm . Plus , it ’s the staring raw weapon system for Spider - Punk himself , as it allows him a way to impose the kind of hurt on his world ’s corrupt organization that is necessary for achieving true , lawless variety . But more than anything , the Spider - Van Mech easily makesSpider - Punkone of the strongestSpider - Manheroes across the entireSpider - verse line .
Spider - Punk : Arms Race # 4by Marvel Comics is available May 29 , 2024 .
Spider - Punk : Arms Race#4 ( 2024 )
