Sinister War: Marvel Announces New Spider-Man Spin-off Series Sinister War! Though the final pages of the today's release only hint at what we can expect, Marvel.Com has the full run down revealing that the new series will be penned by Amazing Spider-Man writer Nick Spencer with art by none other than Mark Bagley. Not only that but the series will have dueling Sinister Six teams fighting each other with Doctor Octopus’s Sinister Six going up against the Vulture’s Savage Six. Marvel says the waging villain teams will be "in a war that puts all of New York City in the crossfire." The new series will also apparently see "the grand return of Doctor Octopus," who has been dead for years but with his consciousness embedded inside a Jackal created clone (comics folks, remember that!). In a statement on the series, editor Nick Lowe said: “Nick Spencer always goes big, and this is his biggest story yet through this series and the concurrent issues of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, so clear some room on your ‘Best Comics Ever’ shelf.”