The Symbiote Spider-Man promotional poster for Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Season 2

While Marvel's live-action television slate is going through a bit of an overhaul, with Daredevil: Born Again wrapping up with Season 3 next year and VisionQuest closing out a trilogy of series that began with WandaVision, animation isn't going anywhere. The wildly popular X-Men '97 is locked in on a yearly release model, with Season 3 and 4 due out in 2027 and 2028. More recently, it was also announced that Marvel Zombies would be a regular presence at Halloween with new yearly specials starting in 2027. After nearly two full years of waiting, Disney+'s animated web-slinger is also looking to get on a yearly cadence as well.

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is finally set to return in January and build on a freshman year for Peter Parker that was beloved by critics and audiences alike. However, it, too, is also renewed through Season 3, giving series creator Jeff Trammell and the team a chance to work ahead on the wall-crawler's next adventures. The hardest part of the job is technically done. Season 1 served to build up this alternate world inspired by both the MCU and the earliest Spider-Man comics, where Peter was mentored not by Iron Man, but Norman Osborn, who guides him through some of his earliest battles with Scorpion, Doc Ock, and more. With everything established, new threats percolating, and confidence from Disney, there's now room to start looking further into the future.

At New York Comic Con, Collider's Maggie Lovitt spoke to Trammell about Season 2 and the future of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, asking how far ahead he is with the show heading into Season 2. Unsurprisingly, Season 3 is already in progress to ensure the wait isn't as long as it was this time around, though there have been reports that Season 4 was also greenlit. Trammell directly confirmed that there was indeed progress being made on the next two seasons, even though an official renewal after Season 3 hasn't been announced by Marvel yet. "I don't know what I can say, and no one's stopping me, so I'm gonna say we're already working on Seasons 3 and 4 of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man," he revealed. That means this version of the wall-crawler could be sticking around for quite a while, so long as viewers keep tuning in.

What's to Come in Season 2 of 'Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man'?

Season 1 of Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man ended with a ton of teases for what's to come, but if the poster for Season 2 made anything clear, this is the year of Venom. A piece of symbiote was left behind following Spidey and Doctor Strange's battle with the alien that came through the portal opened by Norman's Project Monolith, setting up both Peter's iconic black suit and the symbiote's eventual host, Eddie Brock, who'll be voiced by Spider-Man veteran Josh Keaton. While that's front of mind, the series will also confront the big twist in the finale that Peter's dad, Richard, was actually alive and behind bars. Charlie Cox's Daredevil will also be among the many returning faces, while Gwen Stacy will be one of the biggest new additions, helping Spidey face the new threats ahead as Spider-Gwen.

Trammell confirmed they'll be "hitting the ground running" with answering the many questions Season 1 left behind, from Richard to Lonnie Lincoln's future as leader of the 110th, Harry Osborn's new company, and more. For the creator, there are a few characters he's particularly excited for viewers to see in action in Season 2, including, of course, Eddie and Venom.

"I'm really excited for people to see more from Nico Minoru this season. She's a big part of Season 2, and I think people are really going to dig what we're doing with her. Eddie Brock, I'm a huge Eddie Brock fan. It was announced Josh Keaton is playing Eddie Brock, so I'm excited for people to see what he's doing, as well as... Norman's up to some stuff that I'm really excited about as well."

Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man returns for Season 2 on January 13. Stay tuned here at Collider for more news on the animated hit as it comes out. You can watch Lovitt's full conversation with Trammell above.

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