Jonathan Hickman and Adam Kubert's 'Spider-Man: Long Way Home' Is a Brutal Five-Issue Saga This June
Two of Marvel's most celebrated creators — Jonathan Hickman and Adam Kubert — are teaming up for a five-issue prestige Spider-Man series launching June 17. 'Spider-Man: Long Way Home' is set in an early Marvel era before the Punisher and Hulk are household names, and pits Peter Parker against both in a story Hickman describes as the grittiest Spider-Man comic of the modern age. Kubert handles both art and co-writing duties.
When Jonathan Hickman and Adam Kubert announce a project together, Marvel readers pay attention. Their reunion on Spider-Man: Long Way Home — a five-issue series launching June 17 — promises to be the grittiest, most brutal Spider-Man story of the modern era, set in an early Marvel timeline where A.I.M. has just developed a Cosmic Cube and nobody yet knows what the Hulk really is.
A Marvel Universe Before Everything Changed
The premise is deceptively rich: it's a world still in its earliest days. Frank Castle hasn't yet become the Punisher. The Hulk exists only as a whisper of a rumor. Into this unstable moment, A.I.M. deploys a Cosmic Cube — and Spider-Man finds himself on a collision course with both of these forces before they've fully formed into the legends they'll become. The story asks what happens when Peter Parker encounters people who are right on the edge of defining themselves through violence.
Written by Jonathan Hickman & Adam Kubert
Art and Cover by Adam Kubert
Foil Variant Cover by Dave Johnson
On Sale: June 17
Two Legends Back Together
Hickman and Kubert last collaborated on House of X/Powers of X-era X-Men content, where Kubert's architectural linework matched Hickman's structural, systems-level storytelling perfectly. Bringing both men to a street-level Spider-Man book is an unusual pairing that should produce genuinely unexpected results. Kubert is pulling double duty here — both drawing and co-writing — which suggests this is a deeply personal project for him.
"Jordan barely got the words out before I yelled 'Yes!'" Kubert said. "A five-issue Hickman saga with Spidey, Punisher, and Hulk? Absolutely." Hickman was equally enthusiastic, noting that working with Kubert again made the project feel special from the start.
What to Watch For
A five-issue run gives Hickman room to do what he does best — build a world, let the pressure accumulate, and then detonate it. Seeing his approach applied to an early-era Spider-Man story, with Kubert's kinetic, muscular art as the delivery system, should produce something genuinely memorable. The foil variant cover by Dave Johnson will also be worth tracking down. Preorder at your local comic shop now, and look for the first issue June 17.