Gwenpool #3
Gwenpool #3 is the emotional pivot of the 2025 five-issue limited series — the issue in which Gwen Poole is dead and exists only as a disembodied spirit, forcing the narrative into genuinely unusual territory by having her possess Peter Parker and Kate Bishop rather than drive the story through her own body. That structural choice — sidelining the title character from her own physical form at the series' midpoint — pushes Gwenpool's long-running meta-awareness gimmick into genuinely dramatic rather than purely comedic territory. The issue also deepens the arc's central horror: a resurrected Gwen Stacy, rebuilt as Weapon X-31 from the dust of a clone created during Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy, now hunts people in Gwen Poole's stolen name, forcing the Marvel Universe to grapple with two 'Gwenpools' and the weight of Spider-Man's most famous grief all at once.
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The 2025 Gwenpool series was announced in February 2025 and launched in May of that year, written by New York Times bestselling author Cavan Scott and drawn by Stefano Nesi — marking Nesi's debut as a Marvel Comics artist after acclaimed work on Batman. Editor Jordan D. White shepherded the project, and the series was conceived as a five-issue limited run that deliberately destabilized the title character by killing her off at its midpoint and exploring what a Gwenpool story looks like when the protagonist can only act through other people's bodies. Scott has described the book as a challenging project that put the character through circumstances designed to test the payoff of keeping her 'out of herself' for the bulk of the series.
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- Gwenpool #3 was published July 23, 2025, with a September 2025 cover date, as the third chapter of a five-issue limited series.
- Creative team: writer Cavan Scott, artist/inker Stefano Nesi, colorist Matt Milla, letterer Ariana Maher, cover artist Chad Hardin, editor Jordan D. White.
- In this issue, Gwen Poole exists only as a ghost/spirit — she is dead — and spends the issue possessing Peter Parker, while Kate Bishop is simultaneously possessed by Gwenpool's spirit at different points in the story.
- The Great Architect and X-31 (Gwen Stacy resurrected as Weapon X-31) both made their first appearances in Gwenpool #1 (May 2025), not in issue #3; the Architect appears only in flashback in issue #3.
- The character designation 'X-31' is a deliberate mythology gag: it references Amazing Spider-Man #31, the issue in which Gwen Stacy first appeared in Marvel Comics.
- Gwen Stacy's resurrection in this series is tied directly to the clone storyline from Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy — she is described as the reconstituted soul of a Gwen Stacy clone from that earlier event, housed in a new body by the Weapon X program.
- The Great Architect, the series' chief villain, is ultimately revealed across the run to be a counterpart of the series' own writer, Cavan Scott — a meta-fictional twist consistent with Gwenpool's tradition of breaking the fourth wall.
- Gwenpool #3 features a variant cover by artist Karen S. Darboe in addition to the main Chad Hardin cover, with cover colors by Edgar Delgado.
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Reprinted in Gwenpool: All New, All Deadly #[nn] (2025)
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