Technically, all the big properties he wrote were team/ensemble books that went into high-concept sci-fi, and there are people in both the fandom and among the creatives and/or execs at Marvel who think Spider-Man works better, if not best, kept closer to the streets or ground where the regular people of the MU are. That said, given some of the more fantastical sci-fi ideas that were introduced or used primarily in Spider-Man comics --- symbiotes, clones, a cosmic superstructure in the shape of a web connecting and holding the Multiverse together --- I'd love to see what Hickman could do if he were unleashed on those. I could see him taking what was established by Donny Cates in his run and going even further, especially given that the symbiote hive where the memories and knowledge of past hosts are collected and stored and can even be retrieved to effectively revive a dead host could be considered slightly akin to Cerebro in Hickman's X-Men psionically recording and storing the memories and knowledge of every mutant that ever lived to upload into new bodies created from those mutants' DNA in the event of their deaths.
Speaking of the Krakoan Resurrection Protocols, that'd be where the clones could factor in, as the Jackal would look upon that achievement with more than a fair bit of envy and spite, and somewhat like what happened in Clone Conspiracy, he would market his own "reanimation" technology to human power brokers as a way for them to "solve for death" just like the mutants have and tilt the playing field in their favor. Of course, this could turn out like how some fear the ultimate result of transhumanism, namely, whether it's baseline humans or mutants, humanity as a whole still winds up under the eternal rulership of an elite class of effectively immortal, superpowered overlords. The cosmic superstructure that is the Web of Life and Destiny would be a great staging ground for Hickman to do more exploration of the Marvel Multiverse and what binds all those seemingly disparate realities together.
The spider is always on the hunt.
Peach Momoko is doing a variant, so I hope others get announced doing a variant because current JRJR is not for me. Hell, I wouldn't mind another Bagley variant.
Spider-Man doesn't play to Hickman's strengths, but honestly, maybe an off-the-wall run is what the book needs. It worked for Hulk.
Last edited by Webhead; 05-13-2022 at 05:13 PM.
Hickman is not writing a Spider-Man ongoing, I would bet dollars to donuts.
MF Dan Slott's writing the f'ing MJ story are Marvel collectively high
Also tell me what Hickman's writing, he writes a great Peter
If Hickman did write Spidey long term, it would surely be a multiverse story, not a street level one. Big team epics are his forte. He's pretty much done everything else at Marvel (FF, Avengers, X-Men, and big events like Secret Wars). Maybe he can take over Legion of Super-Heroes or Teen Titans over at DC. Both of them need new writers.
Appreciation Thread Indexes
Marvel | Spider-Man | X-Men | NEW!! DC Comics | Batman | Superman | Wonder Woman
I was always hoping for a “Spider-Man: The World”, but this looks interesting.
He was planning to go to DC but I think DiDio decided to pick Bendis instead, supposedly Hickman was gonna write Legion, which's kinda perfect for all of his weird concepts, and since Legion isn't connected with a world around it, he'd have a lot to play with.
Anyways, Busiek had this to say about AF#1000 in his thread:
So there's this to be hyped over.
Glad Busiek gets paired with another artist other than Bachalo .
We don't even know the guy's name, hell we don't even know if it's a guy lol.
I'll say chances are stacked against whatever it is though, villains that aren't created by Ditko struggle to stay around even if we don't factor toxic nostalgia, 'cause making a cool new villain is difficult.
If it turns out to be Greg Land I'm gonna be pissed .