If you were a kid in the 90s, then you know super hero cartoons on Saturday morning were pretty standard. X-Men and Spider-Man really stood out at the time, so much so that X-Men got a sequel series last year titled X-Men 97. Now, Spider-Man ’94 is going to be getting a sequel, but this time it won’t be a cartoon, it will be a comic.
After we saw Peter and Mary Jane Watson in the X-Men 97 series, that takes place in the same universe, fans speculated how MJ got back. The last time we saw the real Mary Jane she fell into an interdimensional portal. The series ended with a cliffhanger ending the series of Peter getting a promise to get MJ back. The head writer said had the show continued, she would have been found in colonial England. The head writer of the series, John Semper, is not involved with the comic book revival, so it is likely that the colonial England storyline will not be used.
John Semper stated on X (formerly Twitter) that he was not even asked to work on the revival. This news is disappointing to a lot of fans of the show, considering his involvement could ensure the comic felt like the show, while not limiting him in the way that Fox did. In the show they couldn’t show anyone dying, they couldn’t say that Morbius was a real vampire, so they gave him suckers on his hands for draining plasma, etc. One rule that didn’t make any sense, is they couldn’t use the word sinister. X-Men could, they had a character named Mr. Sinister. Spider-Man on the other hand, couldn’t face the Sinister Six, he had to face the Insidious Six. Another one that was strange was that they couldn’t hurt pigeons. I’m not even sure if that was necessary, unless some writer was just adamant about Peter jumping on birds in his spare time.
Spider-Man ’94 #1 will be available from Marvel Comics on September 3rd, 2025.
