"Why would Marvel give this to YOU?"
This is a question I've heard from different corners of Spider-Fandom recently.
"Why did they give this to you and not another writer, one who hasn't written Spidey yet?"
&
"Why did they give you *that* AF #1000 story to write?"
And the answer is...
They didn't.
They didn't wake up one morning and go, "Let's give this to HIM."
I'm writing *that* Amazing Fantasy #1000 story cause that's the story *I* pitched. I went to the editor and pitched them *that* story. They liked it and said, "Write it up!"
With the all-new SPIDER-MAN book coming out in October, that came about in a similar way.
Marvel had no plans to do another monthly Spider-Man comic.
I asked Marvel's EIC if I could have a meeting to pitch a project. I pitched an approach for *how* to do an additional title.
Now, because of SPOILERS, I'm not going to tell you *what* that pitch was. You're gonna have to read the book.
(But it was a *damn* good pitch.)
After hearing it, the EIC said, "How can I say 'no' to that?"
And suddenly Marvel was doing a SPIDER-MAN book alongside ASM.
So in both cases, it wasn't a question of Marvel *giving* me something they were going to do.
These were cases of me *pitching* things to Marvel-- things they weren't panning on doing-- and Marvel *approving* them.
Hope that clears some things up.🤟