Summary

• Wolverine and Spider-Punk are stand-out members of a team-up in Marvel’s 2023 Stormbreakers variant covers, creating a highly powered and highly entertaining team.
• The Stormbreakers program showcases Marvel’s top young artistic talents, building on the success of its prior Young Guns initiative.
• Fans eagerly anticipate the potential character dynamics between Wolverine and Spider-Punk, with many hoping for an upcoming story that brings them together.

Wolverine and Spider-Punk are among the hardcore line-up teased by the team-up piece produced by Marvel’s 2023 class of Stormbreakers, its most invigorating young artistic talents. With eight variant covers dropping across January and February 2024, this exciting crop of artists will assemble not only a tribute to earlier Marvel creatives, but also one of the most badass possible teams Marvel could possibly put together.

The Stormbreaker variant covers will include Chris Allen’s Spider-Punk variant cover for Edge of Spider-Verse #1 – coming February 21, 2024 – and Martin Coccolo’s variant cover for Wolverine #42, which will be released on January 31, 2024.

The full roster of characters featured on the Stormbreaker variant covers, when put together, offers a look at a team that would blow the doors off the Marvel Universe, were it to come together for a story, beyond their combined appearance in the Stormbreakers’ highlight series.

Marvel’s Stormbreakers Deliver A Dream Team In Variant Covers

Inaugurated in 2020, Marvel’s “Stormbreakers” program is the successor to its “Young Guns” initiative, a developmental program for the company’s top artists. The most recent class of Stormbreakers are: Chris Allen, Jan Bazaldua, Elena Casagrande, Martin Coccolo, Nic Klein, Federico Vincenti, C.F. Villa, and Lucas Werneck. Each artist provided a variant cover for an upcoming Marvel release, spanning their most important titles, from the X-Men and Spider-Man franchises, to the Avengers. Together, the characters across the eight covers in the series unite to form a highly powered, highly dangerous – and certainly, highly entertaining team, which fans would be more than eager to see in action.

Spider-Punk is a fan-favorite variant of Spider-Man, while Spider-Boy is a mysterious new addition to Peter Parker’s life. Spider-Gwen has carved out a massive fan-base for herself since debuting in 2014. Magneto is soon to be resurrected, just as Scarlet Witch is set to begin a new limited series, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, and Cable is beginning a new volume as well. Factoring in Wolverine and Captain America, all of these characters are either already mainstays of the Marvel Universe – each preparing to play their most pivotal roles yet – or members of the next generation of Marvel heroes, ready to take center stage, and not yield it easily.

Spider-Punk And Wolverine Need To Team-Up ASAP

Spider-Punk first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #15, by writer Dan Slott and artist Olivier Coipel. He recently appeared in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, voiced by Daniel Kaluuya.

There are many fascinating potential character dynamics at play in this eclectic mix of Marvel characters new and old – from Magneto and Scarlet Witch’s family drama, to Captain America’s perhaps futile attempts to keep the team on the straight-and-narrow, to Wolverine’s interactions with young, and iconoclastic, new heroes like Spider-Boy and Spider-Punk, respectively. Spider-Punk and Wolverine in particular should be given a chance to interact as soon as possible; whether Wolverine would appreciate Spider-Punk’s anarchic spirit, or find him to be a pretentious loud-mouth, fans of both characters can only speculate until Marvel throws them together in an upcoming story.

Marvel’s Stormbreaker variant series begins with the release of Captain America #5, featuring Jan Bazaldua’s variant cover, on January 3, 2024.