Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
Here is the other part of this. Most people would consider Amazing more prestigious then say Hulk or Venom. If Spencer was voluntarily leaving Amazing then why would Ewing ( Venom) or ( especially) Cates ( Hulk) not want Amazing. That combined with the number of plot lines still hanging over Kindred ( not to mention OMD) that should be dealt with ( unless Marvel wants another JMS and Sins Past type of story left uncompleted).
Cates would literally be coming straight off another Spider book - Venom is a Spider-Man sub-franchise. Also, unlike Venom, Spider-Man requires humour because of Spidey's quips in battle. Is that really his strong suit? Hulk, of course, isn't a jokester.
Ewing seems to prefer either horror (like Hulk) or teams (like Avengers and GOTG). I can see why he picked up Venom.
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I don't necessarily buy all the Spencer leaving stuff, but it does feel like his run is accelerating.
I get a strong feeling Peter is going away for a little bit after Sinister War and Kindrid's full assault. Maybe Marvel wants to do the "Peter is back!" in time for Far From Home's release (as they did with ASM2).
"Has Sariel summoned you here, Azrael? Have you come to witness the miracle of your brethren arriving on Earth?"
"I WILL MIX THE ASHES OF YOUR BONES WITH SALT AND USE THEM TO ENSURE THE EARTH THE TEMPLARS TILLED NEVER BEARS FRUIT AGAIN!"
"*sigh* I hoped it was for the miracle."
Dan Watters' Azrael was incredible, a constant delight and perhaps too good for this world (but not the Forth). For the love of St. Dumas, DC, give us more!!!
"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
I guess the way I look at it is this: As a professional, I would rather have the challenge of say playing for the Lakers then say the Sacramento Kings ( much higher level of pressure but greater rewards). Same applies to comics. I would rather write Peter and MJ and know that if I mess up I will hear about it for decades then write Archie and Betty romance stories, but if I do well I will never be forgotten about ( unlike who cares about who writes for Archie?).
I wouldn't read too much into it. Not everyone likes Spider-Man, or wants to write Spider-Man, or thinks they have enough good Spider-Man ideas for a full run on the book.
"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
I don't blind date I make the direct market vibrate
This might have something to do with it.
The platform ******** hired Nick Spencer as their comics ambassador.
https://www.***************.com/****...fiction-2021-6
* Edit- Wow, a lot of that got ****ed.
Here's a new link. It's an article about Sub-stack at Bus-iness In-sider (adding dashes to avoid ****)
https://tinyurl.com/y9pvnt8b
Do we know this for sure?
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets