After Nick Spencer has a nice complete run on the book, line him up!
Bro... That would be sick, bro! DOPE!
Bro... Wack, bro... NOPE!
After Nick Spencer has a nice complete run on the book, line him up!
Dunno.
I have not read much of Cates stories before but from what i read i would be woried if the writing would be similiar to Venom,because in the Venom stories, Donny Cates addīs a new mithology and history to the symbiotes,something that in the Venom stories was fine and have been a great ongoing comic book series.
But thatīs because in the Venom stories due the lack of those very same history not having being developed at all,or just much sparsely as in stories as Planet of the Symbiotes.
But with the Spider-Man stories the essential and best stories were right from the beggining from the Stan Lee and Steve Dikto and John Romita Sr,so that would be my concern if Donny Cates wrote Amazing Spider-Man.Having said that it does not mean that the stories by Donny Cates in Amazing Spider-Man would have to be similiar to the Venom stories but if Cates take in ASM was similiar to the Venom series that would be something that i would not be a fan of.
Does that last issue of Secret Empire where he got one line in not count? Or was he already scripting Spider-Man stuff by then?
Can you think of some direct examples?
I could totally see Slott bargaining for the team-up book.The curse of the satellites may be real, as Slott after BND was bargaining for Avenging Spider-Man so he could stay in the universe, Wacker shut him down to his disappointment, and then immediately said it was because he wanted him on Amazing.
Brubaker on Spider-Man would've been a trip. We might've gotten a neo noir-esque take on Spider-Man and his world.
It would be interesting seeing Cates on a more street-level, traditional, hero character, but I think it's a positive that he feels it would be a passion project for him, so it would probably end up better then, say, Death of the Inhumans did.
Remember when he was front-and-center for the initial Secret Empire promotional stuff :?
Have you read The Last of the Innocents his dark take on the Archie genre. Considering that Spider-Man has always been inspired by Archie, and so on, I think a lighter, softer version of that would be there. A lot of focus I think on class issues which is what Last of the Innocents was so focused on.
Hmm, that would be interesting to read, though I'm thinking a neo-noir take on Spider-Man might be more along the lines of "tech-noir," a hybrid genre of science fiction and noir fiction in a similar vein to the original Blade Runner, which was actually set in this year (2019). How time flies . . .
The spider is always on the hunt.
There have been Spider-Man stories with noir elements before.
In the L-D era you had the Crime-Master 2-Parter. Then in the Lee-Romita era the series of issues from ASM #87 to ASM #92 are noir as is the Drug Trilogy to some extent. ASM #122, the follow-up to Gwen's death is straight up '70s noir, i.e. vigilante stories and so on. PAD's run on Spectacular Spider-Man -- The Death of Jean DeWolff. And JMD's Kraven's Last Hunt.
I actually think JMS' run was pretty neo-noir. Coming Home especially. Ezekiel and Morlun wouldn't out of place in Cyberpunk settings and that battle with Morlun is pretty dark looking, at night and so on. JMS' run wasn't always noir after that, but Back in Black is of course super-noir...it's like Spider-Man in The Big Heat. Oh and Mark Millar's Marvel Knights Spider-Man has a bit of 90s thriller edge with Norman as a Lecter and Kevin Spacey in Seven kind of figure. That also applies to Revenge of the Green Goblin and A Death in the Family.
I'm honestly still quite pissed at the damp squib that was Peter's tie-in with Secret Empire, especially given how Spider-Man was front and center in the promotional material surrounding the event. Given that Cap is literally Peter's hero, and that Peter for once had the resources and equipment to actually make a major difference in the event, it was quite aggravating to see him do nothing but fight Ock. His only confrontation with Cap was basically off-panel through the beginning of ASM 30 and the end of the FCBD Secret Empire issue. Ugh.
"Anyone can win a fight when the odds are easy! It's when the going's tough - when there seems to be no chance - that's when it counts!" - Spider-Man
"He's pure power and doesn't even know it. He's the best of us."-Matt Murdock
"I need a reason to take the mask off."-Peter Parker
"My heart half-breaks at how easy it is to lie to him. It breaks all the way when he believes me without question." Felicia Hardy
As it turns out, Donny Cates finally did write Spider-Man in Marvel Comics #1000. He does the one-page "The Route" for 1994. Well done though I think the morbid tack he takes on Peter is off and geographically the point he's trying to get makes no sense.
I get that. But even then it makes no sense. Peter's daily route of swinging going from different places where people he loved died is just bizarre since George Stacy died somewhere in Midtown or Downtown, Gwen Stacy died in the George Washington Bridge and Peter confronted Uncle Ben's burglar in a warehouse by the waterfront, so either the hudson or east river. That's way too apart from each other to make sense as a route.
It also makes Peter kind of morbid and creepy. This is a story that suits Batman because he broods all the time and he perches on Gotham City (which being fictional can have whatever geography he wishes) and Batman is also a gothic character where that kind of trope, i.e. haunting places of past mistakes and misdeeds works...but it doesn't work with Spider-Man.
I am not usually one to praise Dan Slott but he did a similar thing in the start of Spider-Island when Mr. and Mrs. Aunt May go to Boston (mostly because Slott didn't want to draw them with spider-powers). And Peter tours the Forest Hills house with MJ showing all kinds of events from the past happening there. I mean if Peter's that haunted by a place where violence happens, he should have moved out of the Forest Hills home decades ago.
the main theme of the route is that peter parker yearns for death
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