Spider-Man Discussion (Official Web) Comic Book • Page 20

All I need is that dang writer confirmation so I can know if ASM is finally blasting its way into my pull list.

 

this is why I feel like one of the parents going to end up dead in the next spider verse movie

 

Making my way through John Romita Jr’s run on early 00’s Amazing Spider-Man with inker Scott Hanna, in light of the news that they’re reuniting and returning to ASM this April.

Some of this run I’ve read a million times since I was young, but this is my first time reading this many J. Michael Straczynski issues consecutively. It’s… interesting to read in 2022. Some aspects I really appreciate, and some that have aged awkwardly. The best concept in here, which I’d love to see return as a long term status quo, is Peter as a teacher. The stuff with homelessness and addiction is conceptually nice and well intended, but has some messy PSA vibes. And, the scripting feels like TV writing in ways that sometimes sing and sometimes stink. The characterization of Peter is great, though, which does much of the heavy lifting writing-wise.

The main attraction for me, of course, is the JRJR art that, like I said, is why I’m revisiting this era. Occasionally awkward early 00’s coloring aside, this just feels like Spidey to me. He’s like Mark Bagley for me, in that he’s done a ton of Spider-Man over the years and sometimes pencils loosely in a way that people understandably call “bad,” but it just works for me. That stylistic foundation is just perfect for ol’ Webhead.

I can’t wait to get more of these vibes into my life (particularly with someone as strong as Zeb Wells in writing this time)…

 

lol, that’s wild. Love it.

I’m guessing, based on the age, that she’s playing Julia Carpenter. Maybe they’ll do some kinda amalgam of Cassandra Webb, Julia Carpenter, and/or Charlotte Witter, but the most likely scenario imo is that she’s a Julia who meets classic Web and gains those powers by the end.

 

Also, forgot that SJ Clarkson (Jessica Jones) is signed on to direct.

Really hope this and Kraven get too far along to cancel before Morbius comes out. A timeline where Morbius is poorly received enough to not get a sequel, but we still end up with a Kraven film and a Madame Web film that are more fun than most Peter Parker films, would be the best timeline.

 

I mean I'm pretty excited for Morbius, but I second the enthusiasm for Kraven and Madame Web for sure. Give me those and a good Spider-Woman and I'm set forever.

 

What would be interesting to me is if Sony treated these spinoffs as reverse Spider-Man movies. Like, what kind of plot would involve Kraven and the Chameleon all on their own? But if the movie was about how one time they tried to capture Spider-Man...

Like, I dunno, I don't want to say a story can't be told without Spider-Man, but I think it would be interesting to have a superhero movie where we see things through the lens of the villain.

 

I was reading some 90s Ben Reilly comics, and there was a deep cut of Spidey canon that’d be fun for a Kraven film.

It had a boring name (“the Game”) and was the simple, common premise of rich people hiring mercenaries to fight each other. But, I think it’s a decent enough foundation they could mold and add to for a Kraven film apart from Spidey (& Venom) if that’s the route they’re going.

Joystick was a fun character from that stuff. Kaine got wrapped up in it, too; they’d never do it, but it’d be fun if they threw him in with that classic design without explaining the clone backstory.

 

I unironically want a film version of the Clone Saga.

 

I mean, they just put fucking One More Day into a movie that successfully brought the masses back to the theater. Clone stuff has so much more going for it (in spite of the 90s saga being overly long and occasionally dumb) than that mess, lol.

 

Got a VPN and now I can finally watch Spectacular Spider-Man. 5 eps in and loving it so far

 

I really need to rewatch Spectacular Spider-Man. That show is so good.

 

Yep, totally loved this. But man, what a cliff hanger. Harry ruining everything. Sucks we never got to see Peter and Gwen get together

 

Shout out to Marc Silvestri (with help from Kyle Baker) for drawing this handsome, ragged disaster of a Peter Parker.

From Web of Spider-Man #18, about a year before Silvestri made a hot, hot mess of Havok in the X-Men event Inferno. Could totally see Andrew Garfield or Ben Reilly (the two sexiest versions of Spider-Man) like this.

 

Me when Sony casts someone else in one of their weird Marvel films, making that film that much closer to being real:

 

I hate that I know what that first panel is from.

 

watched SM1 again for blank check and i appreciated it a bit more for a lot of individual goings-on. was surprised that i didn't much if anything recontextualized by seeing it again after having caught NWH.

 

https://reddit.com/r/marvelstudios/comments/tp48vt/from_the_leaked_2011_contract_between_sonymarvel/

 

Starting to picture a plot where Spidey gets taken over by the symbiote and immediately becomes a drug dealer.