Dan Slott and the lost "Swarm" story

[Hypestyle]

https://www.gamesradar.com/spider-ma...zi-bees-honey/


Uh... wow. I never knew about this planned story.

I suppose it could have turned out okay. Or, it could have been cringeworthy, lol.


I thought the "fritz von meyer" persona was long ago purged from the Swarm collective, and now it's technically just a horde of angry bees whenever it shows up.
I wouldn't mind seeing it again without the "Nazi honey" connection, lol..

[HypnoHustler]

The story sounds terrible.

Also, Slott has slowly evolved into looking like Santa Claus.

[Spiderfan001]

Slott's ideas are much better than his execution, I don't want to imagine how this would have tuned out

[Noronha]

Thank God it stayed lost

[babyblob]

I .ove Swarm and I am all for campy goofy stories. But Nazi Honey? I am glad this stayed in the never happened pile.

[williamtheday]

Hitler's father was a bee keeper at one time Believe It or Not!

[Hypestyle]

with the real-life issues of bee populations slowly dwindling, there could be a story in that somewhere. in the right hands, of course. Oh well.

I wouldn't mind if it showed up as a minor villain in the movies, with an updated non-nazi origin. And because of the Amazing Friends episode, I'm thinking a lot of people assume that that is the origin story. heh.

[Chris0013]

I wish editors would do that more with some of the crap that has come out over the years.

[Revolutionary_Jack]

Well Marvel Editors haven't entirely lost their taste.

[charliehustle415]

I think it would make a fun back up story, I mean a bug based bad guy for Pete sounds cool.

[Lukmendes]

""Every Swarm story was the same Swarm story. He fires bees at you. I [tell my editor], 'I have an idea. I want to do a Swarm story. I know a new way of doing a Swarm story.' The editor is like, 'What is it?' I go, 'We've never seen what's happened to the honey,'" Slott explained.

"He goes, 'What?' I'm like, 'Yeah. He'd be selling the honey at farmer's market and stuff in disguise in a beekeeper suit or something. Everyone who eats the honey, since they're honey made of Nazi bees, become Nazis.'""

Man, I laughed as soon as I read the last sentence.

I think this is a story that could work, like 50 years ago, when super-heroes had wackier stories, but for a modern setting, yeah it could be weird... Whether it's a good weird or bad weird, we'll never know, but Slott himself thinks it'd be a bad idea lol.

Still, Swarm selling honey could work, maybe not making people into nazis, but maybe another convoluted super-villain plan, or just a side job where civilians feel really uncomfortable when learning they're eating nazi honey .

The "Giant Spider-Man fighting Fin Fang Foom", also sounds really silver age, not really sure it could be interesting even with "Giant Spider-Man" gimmick.

Rare footage of editors doing something good too.

Hitler's father was a bee keeper at one time Believe It or Not!

That just makes the idea even funnier if true lol.

[Frontier]

""Every Swarm story was the same Swarm story. He fires bees at you. I [tell my editor], 'I have an idea. I want to do a Swarm story. I know a new way of doing a Swarm story.' The editor is like, 'What is it?' I go, 'We've never seen what's happened to the honey,'" Slott explained.

"He goes, 'What?' I'm like, 'Yeah. He'd be selling the honey at farmer's market and stuff in disguise in a beekeeper suit or something. Everyone who eats the honey, since they're honey made of Nazi bees, become Nazis.'""

Man, I laughed as soon as I read the last sentence.

I think this is a story that could work, like 50 years ago, when super-heroes had wackier stories, but for a modern setting, yeah it could be weird... Whether it's a good weird or bad weird, we'll never know, but Slott himself thinks it'd be a bad idea lol.

Still, Swarm selling honey could work, maybe not making people into nazis, but maybe another convoluted super-villain plan, or just a side job where civilians feel really uncomfortable when learning they're eating nazi honey .

The "Giant Spider-Man fighting Fin Fang Foom", also sounds really silver age, not really sure it could be interesting even with "Giant Spider-Man" gimmick.

Rare footage of editors doing something good too.

Slott has always seemed very Silver Age inspired in some form or another...

[Snoop Dogg]

slott's never-published furry cosplay story should see print one day

[Alan2099]

I think it could have been a fun little story.

[Somecrazyaussie]

The story sounds terrible.

Also, Slott has slowly evolved into looking like Santa Claus.

Yes. Except he no longer gives gifts and just doles out coal.