As those of you who are regular visitors of the Spider-Man Crawlspace well know, Bleeding Cool did a series of leaks regarding some of the new titles and creative teams post-Secret Wars as part of Marvel’s “All-New, All-Different” initiative. One of the series was another relaunching of Amazing Spider-Man (making this the fourth volume of the series) to written by Dan Slott and illustrated by Giuseppe Camuncoli. The only other thing we knew about it was the tagline which was “Your friendly neighborhood just got bigger.” And by bigger, Marvel means global.
In an exclusive interview with MTV News, Dan Slott revealed further details about his upcoming direction for Peter Parker and his world this October, which finds in the eight months after the events of Secret Wars, Parker Industries is now “one of the leading companies in the world.”
“Peter Parker has stepped up,” Slott told MTV News over the phone. “He’s grown. He’s become the Peter Parker we’ve always hoped he was going to be. This company, with Peter’s inventions and Peter’s gumption has gone to new heights.”
Furthermore, Spider-Man has also gone global in more ways than one, becoming the corporate symbol for Parker Industries.
…Just like in the real world, Spider-Man is everywhere. Now that Peter Parker is an international icon, Spider-Man has become his bodyguard — mirroring a storyline that played out with Tony Stark back when “Iron Man” first launched — and so Spider-Man’s logo is on shirts, posters, toys, games and more all over the world…
…“He’s operating with Parker industries in not just New York, but also Shanghai and San Francisco and London,” Slott said. “He’s going to be a far more global Spider-Man, and with that is going to come all new global threats. Things that will really test Spider-Man like never before.”
Peter is also getting a slightly tweaked costume designed by Alex Ross, and a new Spider-Mobile designed by Giuseppe Camuncoli, which, in the first issue he’ll be “driving around the streets of Shanghai,” according to Nick Lowe. Concept art shows the new Spider-Mobile has transforming capabilities to switch from car to an eight-legged walker. It’s also a two-seater, which according to Slott allows for “new allies” and “romantic complications.”
As for what this also means for Miles Morales, who is also getting his own series this October as well?
“What you’re going to get from Miles is you’re going to get classic Spider-Man,” Slott noted. “A teenager in high school having problems and trying to deal with things.
“And when you’re reading Peter Parker ’Amazing Spider-Man,’ you’re going to get the Spider-Man you’ve been reading about since 1962 going to all new levels. Can he do the street stuff? Sure, but he can do that times ten. It’s everything you know, everything you care about, amped up to a level you’ve never seen before.
This, according to the interview, also means Peter will be tackling new villains while abroad, while Miles and the Jessica Drew Spider-Woman “will be taking on Peter’s rogues gallery back in New York.”
So what do you Spidey fans think of the idea of Peter Parker, international playboy and hi-tech billionaire? Or is he just a mere millionaire?
SOURCES: MTV News and ComicBook.com
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@#44 krankyboy — You know, you just reminded me of something I postulated over on another message board, Krankyboy. As we saw in Amazing Spider-Man #18 when the Parker Industries HQ was burned down, all the super-villain prison research Peter made everyone work on was destroyed along with it. And it was then that Anna Maria suggested they go ahead with Doc Ock’s nanotech research, something Peter didn’t know Anna Maria and Sajani had been working on behind his back until now. Remember also that Peter initially scrapped doing Doc Ock’s nano-machine project because, having just gotten his body back, didn’t really understand it as it wasn’t his area of expertise, hence one of the reasons he opted for the super-villain prison instead.
So, if Parker Industries winds up becoming a hugely successful, international hi-tech industry leader worth billions of dollars because of Doc Ock’s nanotechnology project, then not only is Peter once again bailed out by someone else, but he, just like with the rest of Parker Industries, is capitalizing on the fruits of Doc Ock’s labor. And I imagine once Doc Ock returns (and we know he will at some point), I wouldn’t think his ego would stand the idea of his hated enemy profiting off of his ideas.
@#47 Adam S. — Same here. Though Peter, with his 1980s-style mullet, white tuxedo and women hanging on his arm, is looking pretty darn cocky in that Alex Ross cover. So I can see Peter, having become so successful and rich, would be getting a little full of himself over his feeling his “Parker Luck” is firmly behind him. And let’s not forget, when he first started out as Spidey doing wrestling and TV gigs, Peter did get pretty full of himself.
I think you guys make a great change..and thats good..people already used to the usual peter complication..but some still want to read that and cant move on so u make miles..and some people wants a change for peter so u make a bigger spider-man. Hell,i’ll read them both..
@23
I try not to be a “conspiracy theory” kind of guy but with this I have no other choice but to conclude that Marvel actively wants us to reject Peter for Miles now. If you consider that possibility then it makes sense that Marvel would be willing to keep a mediocre writer on a book for throwaway stories.
Peter’s sold his marriage to the Devil, has been acting out of character, has been marginalized, has had HIS BODY TAKEN OVER BY A VILLAIN, and NOW you guys are thinking that they’re trying to make people not like Peter for Miles? Really? Superior alone did that for a lot of people!
Wow. Just… wow.
@43: I thought of him too. I would imagine that a successful Peter wouldn’t be as arrogant as him though. At least I hope he wouldn’t be.
As others have pointed out, Slott does tend to work in 20 to 30 issue cycles, so I don’t REALLY see this scenario lasting. To me, this seems more like a setup to have Peter fall. See what happened with Otto over in Superior, but probably far more irritating (i.e. Fourteen months of “LOOK HOW AWESOME BILLIONAIRE PETER IS” followed by two months of “Oh, this probably shouldn’t have happened.”) While I could see the ultimate effect of this story being how Peter doesn’t “need” these sort of toys to BE Spider-Man, I can also see Slott getting so lost in his own “awesomeness” that he forgets to actually provide a sufficient counterpoint. Instead of Peter making LEGITIMATE flaws, it will be more that stuff happens outside of his purview and that it will be blamed on him regardless.
I’m a little jumpy at the “love triangle” thing. I’d love to see MJ back, and they are being mum on that, but hopefully she does return to the series full time, and hopefully sometime before the end of the year. The “love triangle” I doubt will between Peter and Anna or Sajani, or even Carlie (I think her ship has sailed). I COULD see Peter being involved with ANOTHER woman who is totes awesome and perfect in every way, but still pining for MJ. But I think that the safer bet is that it’s just going to be Peter/MJ/Pedro.
This is about as far from “Everyman” as the character can possibly get, short of becoming a cosmic god.
But at least it shows again that you can’t believe **anything** Slott says, about anything. He spouts out whatever the current spin is, and if the status quo should suddenly change 48 hours later, he will immediately change over to **the exact opposite**.
I also believe they were hiding whether Slott would continue on the title, because it tickles them to raise people’s hopes that he would finally be done, then dash those hopes. You can hear them chortling from here.
I just had a terrible thought. Peter is pressing the watch with a green glow emanating from it.
Tell me that we’re not getting Spider-Man Unlimited redux (from the old Fox Kids series) where he presses a button on his watch and the costume forms around him with nanotechnology.
And I was just reminded of this guy:
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/marvelanimated/images/b/b9/Armorspidey.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100227120400
Because if you think about it, isn’t the Armored Spider-Man from the 90s cartoon what Peter Parker is now becoming?
@#40 krankyboy — You’re welcome, and thanks. 🙂
I think one of the things that also gets me is that I simply can’t imagine the Peter we saw in the last volume of ASM under Slott as having gotten it together. He was just so incompetent and irresponsible about everything that just being told he managed to bring it all together is something I have trouble envisioning, especially with some of the people he had working for him.
Being married to a supermodel (who was quite often struggling for work) makes Peter “unrelatable” and takes away from his “everyman status.”
But Peter as a jet-setting tycoon (running a company he didn’t build with a degree he didn’t earn)? With arm candy babes hanging off his arms and a two-seater fantastical robocar and his alter ego plastered everywhere? Now, that’s “youth” and super duper relatable for everyone!
Y’know, a female, I have to say that this story feels to me like a really cliche, uber stereotypical depiction of a male midlife crisis fantasy, and I really wish it could be kept out of my comics. I also wish someone who understood the character of Peter Parker would write the book (it’s been such a breath of fresh air reading Conway’s Spiral mini), but then I remember that consistent characterization is apparently the last taboo standing at Marvel.
@37- Thanks Stillanerd. And a very good quip you had about, “You didn’t build that.” He didn’t, and it’s frustrating.
About the only thing I like about this current direction is this: Peter looks pretty hot in a tuxedo. The big glowing spider insignia emblazoned on his chest might also be cool for the prerequisite shirt rip to reveal the costume shot. But I still don’t really recognize Spidey anymore.
@26 One possibility regarding Parker Industries and Otto is that Peter will realize that Otto should be running such a company and return it too him, like Otto realized that Peter should be Spider-Man at the end of Superior. This potentially could make Peter look less like a loser.
Jonah said it best…
@#32 krankyboy — Should be fixed for you now, good sir. 🙂
Spider Man became Iron Man? Here comes another year I won’t buy a Anazing Spider-Man’s single issue.
Still, optimistic that it will be a fun romp
Seems to me that Slott is ripping off Grant Morrison and Batman Inc for Peter Parker. Also, how the **** does no one figure out Peter is Spider-Man now?
I tried to post but the spam filter blocked me. Anyway, I don’t think George or cronotose are being conspiracy theorists. Marvel has said Secret Wars was all being planned for five years. That was the same point when Miles was created by Bendis. And BMB has also stated that Miles is going to be “the” Spider-Man for “kids of color, people of color, and everyone else.” They’re already telling you where this is going. Look for the usual suspects to start screaming that Miles should be the only Spider-Man since he’s “more relatable” than Peter who is a “billionaire cisgendered white male” who no longer reflects the “diversity of the modern American mosaic.” Count on it.
#24 – Yeah, it just strikes me as weak to say Peter is “reaching his potential” by being gifted a huge company and a PhD.
#23 – I don’t think it’s a conspiracy theory, George. And I will bet that very soon, all the usual suspects are going to start chanting that Miles should be the only Spider-Man because “he’s so relatable,” while Peter is just a “billionaire white cisgendered male'” who does not reflect the “new and diverse American nation.” Any way you slice it, Peter is being phased out. Sales be damned. He was always the young street hero trying to make ends meet, swinging through the man-made mountains of New York, and fighting his rogues gallery. All of that is suddenly being taken by Miles, with Bendis stating openly that his creation is going to be the Spider-Man for “kids of color, people of color, and everyone else.”
It’s not an accident. They’re telling you where this is all going.
On the flip side, Peter does look hot in a tux. So I guess I can enjoy that before he gets killed off or replaced.
I hate this I hate everything about it. Why won’t slott leave. When you turn spider-man into iron man it’s a sign your time is done.
Of course Bendis is still writing Guardians of the Galaxy and we know how bad that has gotten. He’s left X-Men and GoG has had really great sales even with the movie’s success and popularity with the characters. Now, they are keeping Star-Lord in his own book but taking him away from the main book to focus on a female Star-Lord with The Thing from the Fanstastic Four and spread the rest of the team to the Inhumans and Avengers. Weird marketing going on just to give a finger to Fox over the Fantastic Four and X-Men lines.
This is a joke, right? Marvel’s just trolling us, yeah?
Regardless, with Slott still on the title Marvel just guaranteed I won’t be buying Amazing for another few years at least.
@27
Well, I could speculate reasons to have Peter be the MCU Spider-Man, but I don’t need to. Sony dictated that it had to be Peter. Marvel didn’t get to decide. The MCU though has only a handful of projects going on at any one time. They absolutely cannot afford to have two or three projects in a row fail completely. They can’t really take the big creative risks. This means Spider-Man has to be who the general public thinks is Spider-Man. The comics division, who gets to publish dozens of stories every month for decades on end, has more opportunity to do what they personally want to do, rather than what the general public thinks. This is especially true in an industry like comics which has been consistently supported by a small group of dedicated customers, and has never had all that much luck hitting the mainstream.
This is all speculation of course, but they would want to have Peter be rejected because they would rather write and promote Miles. To them, being new is psychologically linked with being better. After all, they didn’t create Peter, so they have no pride in his popularity. Slott doesn’t want to write Peter (as he’s shown us time and again) and Marvel would rather promote a character that gets them pats on the back. Thing is, most sales shifts in comics don’t really translate to shifts in the reader base anyway. So long as all the Peter fans start picking up the Miles books, they get to have their cake and eat it too.
All that said, I really think they need to brush up on their Spider History. Their predecessors have tried replacing Peter before.
Yet why not have the new film be about Miles then and just handwave Peter as being gone or having died or something? Or could that be considered to be separate from the Comic division perhaps and Feige just has a better handle of things with the character? I suppose I just don’t get why you’d want to have Peter rejected at all. Why not have both as we do now?
The problem with having Miles as the only Spider-Man with the same Rogues Gallery is that he simply doesn’t have the same relationship that Peter does with them, especially with the likes of Norman or Otto.
That said, I just don’t know how you come back from this at this point. I was already having trouble with the run prior to this, but was hoping Secret Wars would provide an excuse to give us a fresh start without necessarily wiping away it all. But now that Parker Industries is this huge thing, how can you really have it fail without it making Peter out to be the biggest loser of all time? Not to mention what it would do to his relationships with what remains of the supporting cast.
And I swear Sanjani better not still be with the company, but I know she will be. Her character is just insufferable now. Even more so with how they keep trying to make her out to be right.
Once again, this sounds like an idea that could be interesting if it were in the hands of a good writer, which Slott hasn’t been with this character. Does he secretly want to write Iron Man and they won’t let him or something? The whole situation just reeks of the a fan shoving his ideas for he thinks would be great for the character, even more so than his other work.
Here is my 2 cents.
1.) What new ways will Slott find to marginalize Peter and make him a supporting character in his own book?
Pretty much have it where Peter is fighting all these new threats and its his “assistants” that are getting him out of trouble and defeating the new villains. Its the complete opposite of Iron Man because Tony was using his head, his tech and being innovative to solve his problems but then had to deal with the pressures of being a billionaire and owning a company. Slott is going to take everything that wasn’t Iron man or Batman and put Peter in it and have it to where its: “See folks, even hitting it rich and everything he’s still a loser. I also see it to where this is how Otto comes back, he is going to swoop in and take Parker Industries back. He’s going to be using his Anna AI to do it all.
2.) How much longer will Spider-Fans have to have Slott’s terrible writing forced on them?
I’m going to say 2 more years. Dan Slott isn’t going to leave except under two reasons: “He gets burned out and everyone including himself knows it. (Like Howard Mackie got). Or there is a major drop in sales to where everyone sees that the book needs a new writer.
Thirdly, a point and not so much a question.
3.) Alex Ross is (arguably) good with traditional costumes but not so much with designing new costumes.
Ross is a fantastic artist but he can only do so much. The rest of the cover is beautiful but making this new costume work, it has some nice twiques but nothing to get really excited about.
@23
I was already thinking the same thing. Its perfectly in keeping with how Marvel does things. They knew they wanted to reboot Peter in OMD, so they reveal his identity in Civil War. This way there will always be a substantial part of the fanbase who says “OMD wasn’t good, but at least they fixed the identity issue. That needed to happen!”
If you read my original comment on the topic (under the original ASM and 2099 announcement thread), I point out that they clearly ARE replacing Peter with Miles as Spider-Man. Miles gets the city, the villains, the genre, the low key personally driven storytelling, the bigger media push, arguably gets to be on the A team Avengers (though that remains to be seen), and essentially takes over everything that people associate with the Spider-Man brand. Meanwhile Peter gets a token book with the same writer he’s had for most of a decade retreading old Iron Man plots.
Its like when Marvel decided they didn’t like Mary Jane as the love interest anymore. They didn’t rip her away overnight. They very slowly over a long stretch of time used intentionally poor writing and character assasination to destroy her fanbase so that when she left, not as many people would be upset by it.
It creates an interesting question as to what to do in showing your objection as a reader. If we all stop buying ASM, how will they interpret that? Will they say “Wow, I guess we really screwed up! We should return Peter to form!”. I doubt it. I find it more likely they will interpret it as “See! Peter is stale and today’s youth can’t relate to him. Miles is the new generation’s Spider-Man!”
@#4 cronotose — Yeah, I usually tend to save any snark I have when I do reviews, editorials and podcasts. Besides, George is the Snark Master, and there’s no way I can top him. 😉
And you also bring up a very good point. Marvel has potentially put themselves in no-win situation here in that Bendis can talk all he wants about Miles not being the “Spider-Man with an asterisk,” but so as Peter is still active as Spider-Man, that’s always going to be the case. And at this point, Peter is not only so far removed from what made Spider-Man such an identifiable character, he’s become an ersatz version of both Batman and Iron Man. And sooner or later, I think fans are really not going to put up with seeing one of their favorite superheroes behave like a pale imitation of someone else.
@#7 Rama — Yup.
@#9 Nick MB — Good question.
@#12 krankyboy — Your point how Peter didn’t actually earn his company, and that is was a creation of Doc Ock’s I think is the key to all this. Doc Ock was the one who got the PhD. Doc Ock was the one who founded Parker Industries. Doc Ock was the one who got the business loan to start it up and hired the bulk of the staff (and BTW, if the bank or the Feds ever decided to match the signature on the loan application with Peter’s actual signature, then Peter is screwed). Basically, to paraphrase President Barack Obama, “Peter didn’t build that.”
@#15 Al — My own guess will be due to the return of Doc Ock. After all, we’ve seen the seeds of this already (the missing body, the nanotech research, SpOck’s Anna Maria hologram) and I’m guessing when he does, he’ll be livid that Peter is literally riding high on what Doc Ock did. His ego wouldn’t allow for Peter to get any credit for Parker Industries whatsoever, I think.
@#17 George Berryman — Well, if he’s going to different cities, particularly San Francisco, London and Shanghai, wouldn’t be surprised if Peter has to get his butt saved by Daredevil, Union Jack and the Collective Man. Also, as good of an artist Alex Ross is, this shows just why it’s not always wise to “fix” what wasn’t broken as far as the Spidey-suit goes.
@#20 tickbite — That’s a very good point. Peter appears to have grown, but has he? He used to have adult responsibilities when it came to being married and his teaching job, while here, it appears he has the trappings of an adult with him being the head of international company which, as has been pointed out, none of which he actually earned.
Here’s something I just brought up with Brad and the other Crawlspace podcast panelists.
This new direction looks and sounds so awful that at this point it’s making me believe it’s being done intentionally. Why? To try and make Peter less recognizable and even more unlikeable than Slott’s already made him over the last several years just to increase interest in Miles. Especially since Miles has typically sold less than Peter.
If anything, the last eight years of Marvel have proven to me that no one there understands the character enough to write him successfully. So much of Slott’s work on ASM hasn’t been about Peter as a character so much as making Peter the character fit (clumsily) into Slott’s fan-fic du jour. Think back before Superior. They’d fumbled Peter so bad that they had to remove him from the book for almost a year and a half in order to generate interest again. And then after doing so they immediately reduced him to a bit player in their own stories.
I try not to be a “conspiracy theory” kind of guy but with this I have no other choice but to conclude that Marvel actively wants us to reject Peter for Miles now. If you consider that possibility then it makes sense that Marvel would be willing to keep a mediocre writer on a book for throwaway stories.
That’s all I can come up with now. This is the most confounding, creatively bankrupt wave of b.s. I’ve seen from the Spider-office since Quesada’s self-perceived “masterpiece.” And it may be intentionally bad in order to trump up Miles so they can eventually replace Peter with him. Think about it. What better way to do that then to make Peter even less enjoyable?
1. Peter will be required to employ a wide variety of gadgets, employees, and calls to the avengers to handle these global threats. He won’t be written as though his normal abilities are enough to handle it. He will constantly behave as someone who doesn’t have the slightest clue how to run a business, speak in public, behave professionally, or handle internal problems of any kind. I’d wager Anna Maria handles most of these.
2. Either until they decide to stop using the IP solely to promote new characters for spinoff (which could be very soon actually if the Sony deal pans out in their favor), or when they find a new writer they’re particularly excited about, and the character (s)he wants to write happens to be Spider-Man.
Return question: Who will be the next classic Spidey character utterly destroted by massive shortsighted rewrites? We’v already seen Dr. connors and Felicia. Who’s next?
So Slott’s tactic of replacing all of Peter’s supporting cast with his own pet creations now has the pretense of just dumping them all over to Miles and Jessica’s books. With the premise of a love triangle, he can get away with using ALL of the love interests he could want. Anna Maria is already there, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he keeps trying to make Evil Black Cat “relevant”. Plus, if Peter is going all over the place, would anyone else be surprised if Carlie comes back? Something like Peter “just happens” to go to the place she left to? Then Slott would spin those three women as important because Carlie was “Peter’s” love interest, Felicia is “Spider-Man’s”, and Anna Maria is there because Otto was just as important to the idea of “Spider-Man” in this story.
Not really surprised that this book is supposed to be ALL about Parker Industries. I know I’d be giving Slott too much credit, but here’s what I could see him try to retroactively argue what his run was about. Big Time was about Peter “looking” for what to do, and while Superior was about Otto being successful, ASM Vol. 3 was about Peter not needing to “look” anymore, as now Otto had imposed roles onto Peter, and Peter’s struggle throughout that book was having to adapt to what Otto forced on him. Now, with this initial hype of Peter having “grown up”, we’re supposed to believe that Peter succeeded in adapting.
Spider-Verse was just a long-winded excuse to both have the gimmicky “glory” of an event, while also expanding on that lost time from SpOck’s perspective. I maintain that all Slott has left is Black Cat, Otto’s “inevitable” return, and Parker Industries. Using the “fame” that comes with Parker Industries is just going to be a pretense for Slott to dump all of his storylines into this.
“Peter Parker has stepped up. He’s grown. He’s become the Peter Parker we’ve always hoped he was going to be.”
Right. I felt that the “grown up” Peter Parker we got on JMS’s run was just fine. At least, those comics I used to read made it much more likely that Peter was going to be a teacher than have his own company and jetset around the world. Such a long way from Stan Lee’s original idea …
@17
1. Removing him from his home city and rogues gallery will create constant “fish out of water” situations in which Peter will always be “out of his league” and overwhelmed by his new settings and villains.
2. I’m starting to honestly believe that Dan Slott will never stop writing ASM. Maybe he cut a deal with Mephisto too…?
@17
1. Peter Parker in Japan will be overshadowed, figuratively and literally by Godzilla transported to earth from the planet of dinosaurs. Spidey will befriend a samurai and many a joke will be shared over bowls of fried rice.
2. Until people actually take a stand and stop buying the books.
So let’s kick it around the room. Couple of questions for you folks.
1.) What new ways will Slott find to marginalize Peter and make him a supporting character in his own book?
2.) How much longer will Spider-Fans have to have Slott’s terrible writing forced on them?
Thirdly, a point and not so much a question.
3.) Alex Ross is (arguably) good with traditional costumes but not so much with designing new costumes.
Who is this “we” you’re talking about, Dan Slott?
If Peter Parker is now a global icon…doesn’t that kill his down to Earth relatability? I mean…how is he going to go back to being a normal guy after this?
Please…please…please don’t let the answer be a continuity reboot.
I’d rather have another psychic mindwipe than this
Thanks to Slott, I have lost all interest in the book. everything that made the book a success is gone, right now all I care about is, what’s going on with Mary Jane, Annie for RYN and Black Cat.
Yeah. I think I’ll stick to back issues of Amazing Spider-Man.
So Spider-Man is now Batman. Playboy alter ego. Huge corporation he didn’t earn (thanks, Otto). Jet setting. Yeah, that’s a guy that everyone can relate to.
It’s almost like Marvel has absolutely no clue what made Peter so great for fifty years. And with all the nonsense about mantles and legacy characters (with Miles essentially getting New York and the classic rogues), Marvel has slowly turned into the worst of DC Comics. Good going, guys.
Pretty Alex Ross cover art though.
lol
Seems like Peter Parker is going to be a “Tony Stark 2.0” after Secret Wars.
Sounds like an extension of Slott’s Big Time run, which was mostly a pretty fun time. Interested to see where he’s going with it – sounds like a bit more of a solid direction than the slightly meandering post-Superior run. Wonder if it’s still twice-monthly or if it’s just once a month with one artist.
@7
While you’re absolutely right, that argument assumes that Marvel is being honest about why Spider-Man can’t be married. I think its actually quite rare for Marvel to be honest with the fans about why they do anything.
Married/ Father Peter Parker: unrelatable and too far from true Peter Parker
Millionaire Jet setting Peter Parker with transforming robot car: Totally Fine!
Marvel has lost their damn minds.
slots has gone too far.
this proofs that he lacks imagination.
iwill only tolerate ”revew your vows” only due to spidey and mj beeing made married for this one secret wars event ,but this… this is not spider-man at all. they should hire kevin cushing marvel is getting horrible.
… but he STILL can’t be married. Told you “Renew Your Vows” wasn’t gonna amount to jack s***. He’s stepped up and grown. Isn’t that against Marvel’s “time bubble” initiative? And what, Slott’s ripping of Iron Man ideas now?
Saw the article and immediately knew Stillanerd posted and not George. Not nearly enough snark.
As I commented when the link was posted in the other ASM article, I think most of this is atrocious. Peter’s being put in a position in which his storytelling has never worked very effectively so that they can give “Spider-Man” stories to Miles. With this being the case, they really should have called Miles’ story “Amazing Spider-Man”(Since that’s clearly what they’re writing it as) and called the Peter series “Parker Industries” or “Spider-Man Inc” or something to that effect.
I don’t think this set-up serves anyone. Hardcore SJWs won’t be happy unless Miles is the only Spider-Man. Peter fans get more Slott, a difficult to swallow new gimmick for the premise of the book, and the rogues gallery taken away. The real Miles fans get a character forced to live in the shadow of the original Spider-Man, as Miles will be fighting another character’s enemies in a retread of the Lee/Ditko era (though more likely a copy of the earlier issues of USM)rather than generating his own place in the Marvel U.
Oh. And the Spider-Mobile’s back. Because you demanded it.
So Peter Parker is basically the new Tony Stark of the Marvel Universe. I suppose I’m curious to see how this plays out, but I think most people relate to Peter Parker because he struggles with life like many of us do. Why should I read another title just to get the Peter Parker/Spider-Man I know and love?
Why is Parker industries still existing id thought it got blown the hell up why won’t it go away and what about Mary Jane his wife and his daughter what about them
Actually, I kinda like the idea of this! Reminds us old readers that we don’t always have to be stuck in the same rut, and that we can achieve great things if we put our minds to it :). Count me in on this one.