Just had a reread of the Superior Foes Omnibus.
I want Edgar Wright to pick this up immediately, forget about any issues he had with with Marvel & make the funniest show we will ever see.
Just had a reread of the Superior Foes Omnibus.
I want Edgar Wright to pick this up immediately, forget about any issues he had with with Marvel & make the funniest show we will ever see.
There are other film-makers I'd pick before Wright (who I've never been a fan of):
-- Matthew Vaughan, for instance.
-- Steven Soderbergh, though I doubt he would be interested.
-- Andrew Dominik.
-- Guy Ritchie around the time he made his genre work, but these days he's fallen on hard times.
-- The Spike Lee of INSIDE MAN would also be a good pick.
Honestly, if people at Sony were savvy, they'd pitch this to Netflix as a limited series and make it work.
Love the Superior Foes of Spider-Man. Surprised it's yet to have the cinema or TV treatment. One of the best Spider-Man stories ever and the funniest comic book I've ever read.
One of the best Spider-Man comics of the past decade, maybe the very best.
To me it felt like the 2010s equivalent of a Tangled Web type book, where it wasn't an anthology by different creators but it also focused mostly on things the periphery of Spider-Man's world and characters that he effects.
I think Superior Foes of Spider-Man is a real original, both in Spider-Man and Marvel.
I mean Thunderbolts was an example of doing a team of supervillains and telling their story but in Busiek's original the T-Bolts eventually redeemed in part. Whereas Spencer makes us care for these supervillains while still keeping them supervillains and not redeeming them.
The dialogue of Superior Foes is just *chefs kiss* in terms of its humor, its nuance, how distinct every character sounds.