Writer Howard Mackie just sent me a note thanking Zack and my site for the nice reviews of the recent Clone Saga mini-series.
He said that he and Tom DeFalco have pitched a solo Ben Reilly book to Marvel. Here’s his quote.
Thanks, Brad. I truly appreciate all the kind words, and that Tom gets all the blame for the minor negatives! Tom and I would LOVE to continue with Ben– and have pitched a series– but that is Marvel’s call. Maybe a grassroots movement would help? Thanks again.
It’s up to us to make the book happen. Send written letters and e-mail to Joe Quesada, Steve Wacker and Tom Brevoort to make the book become a reality.
Here’s the written address:
Marvel Entertainment, LLC
417 5th. Avenue
New York, NY 10016
I’m not trying to offend gays by my second comment on this page, thanks.
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Bring back the life of Reilly 🙂
I doubt this will be seen (I know this entry was a few months ago now!) but is there any news on the SCARLET SPIDER proposal?
I hope they go for it. Miss the 90s Spidey and Scarlet Spidey stories… With the Clone Saga mini and the upcoming TPBs, here’s hoping that Marvel start mining some of the gold from the 90s continuity. 🙂
I hope they go for it. I’ll pick it up.
To Howard, for the Win.
Thanks so much for coming by.
Ink?!!!! You mean there was no need for me to keep opening VEINS?! Now you tell me.
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And ink…can’t write without it. And yes, ink comes in liquid form…even though you may not know that judging from some of todays printers 🙂
Bandito… FIRST, you find yourself a goodly sized goose and papyrus plant of appropriate maturity…
Wow. Wow. Wow…. um wow.
This is awesome news. I wonder how much it’ll cost me to be sending three letters from Australia? I don’t care! I must send them to help get this ongoing! All Ben Reilly fans need to do their part in this!
Howard’s on a quest to revive the…erm…Parker Pen?
what are these “hand written” letters you speak of?
Roger Wilco Mr. Mackie. I’m glad Marvel still throws us bones
Brad, thanks for the plug… and thanks EVERYONE for the kind words. They are greatly appreciated by both Tom and I. Letters and e-mails are great, but tell your friends, and your friends friends to go out and buy up the last issue… let’s have it sell out! Then tell them to ask for back issues of the previous issues. Tell them to pre-order the trade.
To confirm some of what was said earlier… Joe Quesada was very supportive of this project, and it really would not have happened had it not been for him. In the immortal words of Dalton from ROAD HOUSE, “Be nice.”
Will this series be past tense or do you think Reilly will return from the dead?
*Grabs Pen & paper….looks down
*grabs laptop
Ben Reilly ongoing FTW!!!
Okay folks, I just got the news this evening. HOLY FRICKING COW!
This makes my day. I’m working on getting some more info from the boys over at Spider-Girl’s Message Board. I’ll talk about it more in the episode of Clone Saga Chornicles Episode 11. (#10 will be out this week sometime.)
I agree with Jonny. The rules aren’t hard to follow, no personal insults or attacks. The last two comments were deleted.
Er….no need to take your user name so seriously, the number 1 rule of crawl space is not to start flame wars.
Do emails ever work in these kind of situations? I’d love to see this happen though, it’s the main reason I paid 3.99 a month for clone saga.
I’d like to see a new Ben Reilly series, but not nearly as much as I wanted to see it two years ago. I loved Ben because he brought back the goodness of a single Spider-Man. Now, he’s redundant because Peter’s finally back where he belongs. Heh, maybe he can be the married Spider-Man now. 😉
I know I’m gamed in.
CLONEGASMS
@FrakTheRules – It caught me off guard because I see a lot of Quesada bashing on the bulletin board. I sure won’t be making that mistake again.
I can take the train down there i live in upper Manhattan it would be like 45mins,. Is it worth It?
..Not to mention he’s also the reason The Clone Saga got approved. Don’t insult a guy that likes the marraige, but likes Spidey’s stablity as an icon more.
This is epic new and i think it’s heard on Crawl Space first. I hope that all the letters they get will make this happen.
The ‘Space has a “no insulting the creators” policy. People in good standing with Marvel have posted on the message boards and sometimes on these bulletin boards, thus they are treated equally like any regular person that comes here, an equal regardless of thier choices (and don’t worry, there not above the law either, I rememebr Slott got warned once)
And Quesada’s the reason Spider-Girl gets renewed, so he’s not that bad
@BD – Dude, what the heck? The only one I was insulting was Quesada. I thought that was acceptable. Anyway, sorry for that negative attitude.
I’ve a feeling the Spidey franchise will get back on track before too long if they approve of this…just throw out BND and we’ll be on a healtheir road than we were when this mess started in 2004. Bringing back the revived Clone Saga’s timeline means restoring the marraige and giving disgruntled fans a personal canon they can follow (because I know only so many people follow Spider-Girl and regret that Peter’s a virtual hadicap, not me, but certaingly others) in his new fangled role.
SuperChencho: Your comments will stop getting deleted when you stop insulting people.
Sending letter this weekend. I just hope Peter, MJ and baby May make appearances from time to time.
Styleshift, it will only happen if you write in.
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay this is the BEST news I have heard in a while.
Pitched by the perfect team too.
If this comes out I WILL BE BUYING. =D
Awesome news, I will defiantly be mailing in.
HZZTFRKLEGUSH **nosebleed**