Gwenpool #5
Gwenpool #5 (September 3, 2025) serves as the finale of the 2025 five-issue miniseries and delivers a genuinely audacious payoff for the character's long tradition of meta-textual storytelling: the season-long villain, the Great Architect — the mysterious figure who resurrected Gwen Stacy as a Weapon X-style killer and twisted Gwenpool's own identity — is unmasked as a fictional counterpart of writer Cavan Scott himself. That reveal pushes the franchise's fourth-wall-breaking DNA further than any previous chapter, literalizing the idea that a comic's author holds power over its characters. The issue also resolves the series-spanning question of who brought Gwen Stacy back, confirming her as the reanimated soul of the clone of Gwen Stacy from Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy — a thread that reconnects the story to one of Spider-Man's more divisive recent storylines while putting a new spin on the original Gwenpool's identity crisis as a woman who has always lived in someone else's narrative.
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Marvel announced the five-issue Gwenpool miniseries in February 2025, with writer Cavan Scott (Star Wars: The High Republic) and artist Stefano Nesi — making his Marvel debut after acclaimed work on DC's Batman — as the core creative team, with Chad Hardin providing covers and Matt Milla on colors. Editor Jordan D. White, who has a long history with the Gwenpool character dating back to her creation, shepherded the project. The series launched May 14, 2025, and Scott acknowledged in his own newsletter that deliberately suppressing Gwenpool's signature personality for most of the miniseries was a calculated risk, one designed so the finale's reveal of the Great Architect's identity would carry maximum weight.
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- Published September 3, 2025, by Marvel Comics; rated T+; 28 story pages (20 story pages per League of Comic Geeks credits).
- Written by Cavan Scott; art and inks by Stefano Nesi; colors by Matt Milla; letters by Ariana Maher; cover by Chad Hardin with colors by Edgar Delgado; edited by Jordan D. White.
- Final issue of the five-issue 2025 Gwenpool limited series, which began May 14, 2025.
- The Great Architect's secret identity is revealed to be a counterpart of writer Cavan Scott himself — a meta twist consistent with the franchise's tradition of fourth-wall storytelling.
- The issue confirms that the resurrected 'Dark Gwenpool' (Weapon X-31 / Gwen Stacy) is the soul of the Gwen Stacy clone from the 'Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy' storyline inhabiting a clone body.
- Key characters appearing include Gwenpool (Gwen Poole), Gwen Stacy / Weapon X-31, Spider-Man (Peter Parker), Kate Bishop / Hawkeye, and Jeff the Land Shark.
- The issue features a plot in which Gwen Stacy poses as an informant, turning over Kate Bishop's bow and one of Jeff's teeth as 'proof' of kills, before the full team reunites to fight back against the Architect and a Gwenpool robot.
- Stefano Nesi's work on the series represented his Marvel Comics debut, having previously been known for his work on DC's Batman title.
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Reprinted in Gwenpool: All New, All Deadly #[nn] (2025)
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