https://www.cbr.com/nick-spencer-ama...ampaign=CBR-TW
Fantastic interview form Nick Spencer on his run. Especially on the misconception of any filler arcs. Note he says every story so far is setting up something further down the road that will pay off.
Some key highlights for me:
"I’ve said before, but Amazing Spider-Man is the only comic I’ve read throughout basically my entire life without pause. So it’s the one where I have the best aerial view, and what really struck me is how,
for a book that is driven so much by a moral lesson about responsibility, there are so many things that have been sort of swept under the rug, never to be mentioned again."
"There was a moment after the Absolute Carnage issues, where I really think we led the horse to water, when I contemplated a misdirect, something that would seem to eliminate Harry from suspicion. But ultimately, that felt like stunt work. I wanted to play fair here."
"The reason I could do that is I knew the reveal was the beginning of the mystery, not the end. And that’s what I’ve been pleased to see in the response, people realizing that. .... How did he become this? When did the turn happen? What is he after? “Last Remains” is where all that starts to unravel and there are plenty of twists and turns to this part of the story that I feel confident no one will see coming."
"More than that, this feeling Pete has, that something is not quite right or recognizable about his life, that it’s somehow all a dream and he’s being swept along, trapped in a kind of hopeless cycle, that’s what’s truly terrifying."
"I wanted the camera on Spider-Man and Kindred squarely in the numbered issues-- so the .LR’s contain a lot of crucial plot points regarding other characters-- some you know now, some you don’t-- that will dovetail at the end of “Last Remains” in a big way. So I highly, highly recommend not skipping them, I would say they’re essential to the story."