All-New, All-Deadly

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 Gwen Poole and Spider-Man revolving around latest Stacy's resurrection.^[2], 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 Poole, Bishop, and Jeff had starred).^[3][4] The storyline would be written by Cavan Scott and illustrated by Stefano Nesi.^[5] Upon launch, the first issue of the storyline sold well enough to necessitate a second printing.^[6]

After 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 them with their forces combined. Having missed this exposition, the real Gwenpool, Gwen Poole, arrives on the scene after all Avengers but Spider-Man (Peter Parker) and Poole's own family unit, Hawkeye (Kate Bishop), and their son Jeff the Land Shark, and proceeds to use her perspective size-changing to grow to the size of a kaiju and effortlessly defeat Foom herself, throwing him into orbit, much to Peter's confusion. On her way home with Kate, the two are suddenly besieged by Deathlok assassins, who Peter helps them fight before Weapon X-31 arrives on the scene and ills them herself. Assuming the similarly X-31 to be a fan or an all-new version of her future self, Poole dubs her "Dark Gwenpool" before X-31 unmasks to reveal herself as Gwen Stacy, much to Poole's and Peter's shock.^[7]

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, Poole assumes she is a villain and attacks her, and Stacy accidentally stabs Poole though the chest with the sword-arms she was implanted with, mortally wounding her, with Poole dying in Kate's and Jeff's arms as Kate yells out 'Avenger down!'.^[8]

At Poole'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 Poole, and he reiterates why he doubts her identity, due to his previous experiences with clones of Stacy. Suddenly, Stacy finds herself attacked by Kate, who has been possessed by Poole's ghost, who hops from her to Peter while on a path to seek revenge, while Stacy flees again.^[9]

On catching up with Stacy, who has had flashes of her previous resurrection, Poole'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 ("the sample") had been recovered by Weapon X and stripped of the memories of her first resurrection, grown a new immortal clone body below the neck, before being kept in-check with electroshock implants previously placed in her head by Ben Reilly, all part of the plan of the "Grand Architect" of Weapon X.^[10][11]

Freeing Stacy of Weapon X's control, Poole'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: Poole's own corpse, rebuilt as a cyborg, much to Poole's annoyance, while Poole possesses the Great Architect 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 Poole possesses her own corpse to return to life. With Weapon X defeated, Poole convinces Stacy to spare the Great Architect's life, and he is arrested. Stacy and Peter reunite, Stacy asking out Peter again (passing it off as a joke when he turns it down), as Poole and Kate embrace, before the four humans (and Jeff) set out to fight Foom again, who is finally crashing back down to Earth from orbit.^[12]

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.^[13] 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.".^[14]

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.^[15]