SDCC 2013: Superior Spider-Man/ Venom team-up officially announced. (UPDATE)

Remember my post a few weeks ago in which I reported on the rumours of a Superior Spider-Man and Venom crossover? Well, yesterday at San-Diego Comic-Con it was announced officially. The four-issue event was revealed by Superior Spider-Man writer, Dan Slott, via a very shaky phone-in to answer questions from the crowd at SDCC's Superior Spider-Man panel.

The issue will mark the first meeting between Flash Thompson as Venom and Otto Octavius as the Superior Spider-Man. The four-issue event will also be co-written by Christos Gage.

UPDATE:

Here's a better look at that cover by Humberto Ramos and Edgar Delgado:

Superior Spider-Man and Venom to crossover

There have been a few rumours spinning out of the recent Marvel retreat, Bleeding Cool have been reporting on a lot of them such as Francesco Francavilla drawing the 'Gaurdians of the Galaxy' Infinity tie-in, the cancellation of 'Astonishing X-Men' and the most recent, a possible Superior Spider-Man/Venom crossover.

This would be the first meeting between Otto Octavius' Spider-Man and Flash Thompson's Venom and it's something that I'd definitely be interested to read. Now, I'm pretty sure this is going to be the main Superior Spider-Man series rather than the Superior Spider-Man team-up series. I mean, Dan Slott has pretty much confirmed it over twitter:

Okay. Enough internettin' for one day. Lunch. Then I gotta finish breaking down this Superior Spider-Man/Venom arc. Ttyl! :-)
— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) June 30, 2013

Another thing that I thought I'd point out is that a few months ago Slott was once again on Twitter teasing things to come when he mentioned a Spider-Man related event "Bigger than Spider-Island", could this be a part of it? And let's remember, Spider-Island was a pretty major events with tie-in books from the Avengers, Venom, Spider-Girl, Cloak and Dagger and many more.


(Source: Bleeding Cool and Dan Slott's twitter)