All-New, All-Deadly is a five-issue story arc from the comic book series Gwenpool (vol. 2), published in issues one through five in 2025 by Marvel Comics, as a crossover between The Amazing Spider-Man and The Unbelievable Gwenpool, and a sequel to the 2016–2017 event series Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy. It was written by Cavan Scott and illustrated by Stefano Nesi. The story involves Weapon X resurrecting Gwen Stacy's reanimation from "Dead No More", who is dubbed Weapon X-31 and pitted against the original Gwenpool. As the group seek to find out what led to Stacy's revival, Stacy attempts to break free from Weapon X. The story received mixed reviews from critics due to lack of focus on Gwenpool, pacing, the writing, inconsistent art, and overemphasis on Weapon X.
Publication history In February 2025, after teasing the resurrection of Gwen Stacy across numerous promo images, Marvel announced "All-New, All-Deadly" as a crossover story arc between Gwenpool and Spider-Man revolving around latest Stacy's resurrection., intended to launch later that day, and also featuring Kate Bishop and Jeff the Land Shark in main roles, picking up from the latest volume of It's Jeff (in which Gwenpool, Bishop, and Jeff had starred). The storyline would be written by Cavan Scott and illustrated by Stefano Nesi. Upon launch, the first issue of the storyline sold well enough to necessitate a second printing.
Story After an unknown woman is resurrected with Weapon X-like abilities as Weapon X-31, her handler, known as the "Grand Architect" calls her by the "Gwenpool" name, which she dislikes. Meanwhile, the Avengers, the X-Men, and the Fantastic Four team up against Fin Fang Foom, who has been powered up by a cosmic force to be more powerful than all of their forces combined. Having missed this exposition, the real Gwenpool, Gwen Poole, arrives on the scene and defeats Foom. On her way home with Kate Bishop, the two are besieged by Deathlok assassins, who Peter helps them fight before Weapon X-31 arrives on the scene and kills them herself. Assuming the similarly X-31 to be a fan or an all-new version of her future self, Gwenpool dubs her "Dark Gwenpool" before X-31 reveals herself as Gwen Stacy, to Gwenpool's and Peter's shock.
As Peter and Stacy talk about her latest resurrection, Peter, refusing to believe it is her and assuming malicious intent, attempts to attack her before she flees. As Stacy protects some citizens of the city from fallout of Foom's prior attack, Gwenpool assumes she is a villain and attacks her, and Stacy accidentally stabs Gwenpool though the chest.
At Gwenpool's funeral, attended only by Kate and Peter, Kate mourns "my Gwen" while Peter notices Stacy watching from a distance, and leaves to talk to her, where she apologises for accidentally killing Gwenpool, and he reiterates why he doubts her identity, due to his previous experiences with clones of Stacy. Stacy is attacked by Kate, who has been possessed by Gwenpool's ghost, who hops from her to Peter while on a path to seek revenge, while Stacy flees again.
On catching up with Stacy, who has had flashes of her previous resurrection, Gwenpool's ghost hops into her mind and learns that X-31 is the reanimated Gwen Stacy (Stacy's soul in a clone body) from Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy, whose severed head was recovered by Weapon X and stripped of the memories of her first resurrection. Stacy was grown a new body and kept in check with electroshock implants.
Freeing Stacy of Weapon X's control, Gwenpool's ghost forgives Stacy for killing her, and together with Kate and Peter, seek to take Weapon X down. On infiltrating the Weapon X facility, Stacy, Kate, and Peter find themselves opposing Weapon X-32: Gwenpool's own corpse, rebuilt as a cyborg, much to Gwenpool's annoyance, while Gwenpool possesses the Great Architect of Weapon X to find out why he revived Stacy, learning that, like her, he is from the real world, a writer who had written himself into the Marvel Universe as a supervillain. Not liking having to write a story with her in it, the Great Architect refuses to explain himself, and Gwenpool possesses her own corpse to return to life. With Weapon X defeated, Gwenpool convinces Stacy to spare the Great Architect, who is arrested. Stacy and Peter reunite, Stacy asking out Peter again (passing it off as a joke when he turns it down), as Gwenpool and Kate embrace, before the four humans (and Jeff) set out to fight Fin Fang Foom, who has returned to Earth from orbit.
Critical reception The storyline received mixed reviews, with critics criticizing the lack of consistent vision, lack of emphasis on Gwen Poole, and the villains, and the overemphasis on Gwen Stacy. In a positive review, Maxwell Majernik from AIPT wrote "The meta stuff is the meta stuff and will be a love-it-or-hate-it type of thing. Because the metaness is interwoven into the character and plot, it is a tough recommendation if you don’t have a baseline knowledge of Marvel lore. Cavan Scott did a good job of introducing exposition at the right time to create the stakes if you are unfamiliar with the key players, but a majority of the moments hit way more if you know the history. I fall into the elder millennial subgroup, which makes me familiar with the many one-off moments involving famous ‘80s panels or callbacks to specific writers, so it is in my particular wheelhouse. They could have really leaned into it because the reader is either going to get them all or none of them, so no reason to play it safe", concluding to call the series "A recommended storyline for the elder millennials who are flirting with modern comic storytelling but still need their lore comfort blanket.".
According to ComicbookRoundup, the entire storyline received an average rating of 8.7 out of 10 based on 17 reviews, from mixed or average reviews.
Collected editions + Title Material Collected Published Date ISBSN Gwenpool: All-New, All-Deadly Gwenpool (2025) #1–5 March 3, 2026
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