User blog:ARTaylor/Spider-Island Coming to Marvel's Spider-Man

Vice President of Marvel Animation Stephen Wacker talked to Comic Book Resources about the new Spider-Man series. During the interview Wacker revealed that the series will tackles is the 2011 story Spider-Island. For those who don't know the story, it follows Spider-Man and other spider-based characters like Agent Venom and Spider-Woman as the citizens of Manhattan are infused with Spider-Man's powers only to transform into horrifying spider creatures. Elements from the popular and well-received series made their way into a Carnage-based story on Ultimate Spider-Man.

Another story he teased but said they were not sure how to get there is the highly controversial Superior Spider-Man story, where the webslinger switches minds with Doctor Octopus and is killed so that Otto is the not-so-friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. He also talked about how he would like to adapt Annihilation for Guardians of the Galaxy. On the subject he said, "Pulling that in would be super cool. I guess also, in a lot of ways, it's important to me that we don't just pull from the classic stories, but [stories] that newer comic readers might recognize. 'Superior Spider-Man' is a good example. Not something pulled from something forty years ago all the time, so we're not retelling the 'Kree/Skull War' or 'Spider-Man: No More.'"

The air date for the series is being kept vague at just July of 2017.