It happened, and fans around the world are rejoicing. Sony and Marvel Studios have announced today that Spider-Man is coming to the Marvel cinematic universe at long last. The announcement today lays out a plan in which the web-swinger will appear in a Marvel film sometime between now and the June 2017 release of the next solo Spidey flick, meaning we’re going to see Spider-Man cross over into the MCU in one of the next few Marvel movies — Captain America: Civil War isn’t officially confirmed as the candidate film but is almost certainly the one, since that was the focus of Marvel’s efforts to set up the initial crossover and the information I heard about Spider-Man heading to Marvel came along with details about Cap’s third movie.

After that crossover appearance followed by a solo outing, Spider-Man would then see guest appearances by other Marvel Studios characters in the Sonymovies, while Spidey made occasional appearances in the MCU films. Sony and Marvel will work together on coming up with the new direction for the character and his franchise, and to incorporate him fully into the Marvel shared universe.

Now, let’s all take a breath for a moment and let this sink in. One thing to just get out of the way is my obligatory “told ya!” since I first wrote that I believed Spider-Man was headed to the MCU back in summer 2013, and ever since I’ve occasionally returned to the issue to note that it was inevitable that Spidey would end up within the Marvel movies. I started hearing the rumblings last year, and they grew stronger. Several weeks back, I heard information aboutCaptain America: Civil War and other Marvel-related details, including that a deal between Marvel and Sony was either done or about to be finalized. Which is, as noted above, one of several reasons I think Cap’s sequel is where we’ll first see Spider-Man make his crossover into the MCU.

Something else to keep in mind: Andrew Garfield isn’t returning as Peter Parker/Spider-Man. The role will be recast and we might see a “soft reboot” that doesn’t overtly erase the previous two films entirely, but avoids any strong in-continuity references to their plot details. We won’t get another origin tale at this point — we’ve already had two in the previous 14 years, most recently in 2012, and frankly everybody who’ll be going to these films already knows the details of his origin anyway.