The Taskmaster is one of the most lethal combatants in the Marvel Universe, and his deadly array of skills makes him more than a match for Spider-Man and Starling! But is this a team-up...or a date?! Miles must race the clock to save his romantic life - and maybe his actual life! Plus, the return of an old friend: Riri Williams, the armored prodigy called Ironheart! Elsewhere, momentous events in the world of Peter Parker will have dire effects for both Miles and his metamorphic clone, Shift! But what does this domino effect of events mean for Ben Reilly, the corporate-sponsored Spider-Man?
COLLECTING: Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2018) 33-36, Miles Morales: Spider-Man Annual (2021) 1 (A story)
Saladin Ahmed was born in Detroit and raised in a working-class, Arab American enclave in Michigan. His short stories have been nominated for the NEBULA and CAMPBELL awards, and have appeared in Year's Best Fantasy and numerous other magazines, anthologies, and podcasts, as well as being translated into five foreign languages. THRONE OF THE CRESCENT MOON is his first novel. Saladin lives near Detroit with his wife and twin children.