Dark Web#1 Preview

[Kevinroc]

New editor on ASM for a while. Let's see if it's just for Dark Web or if it actually means some kind of change is happening

What if the new editor isn't a real person and the editor's page is some kind of meta-joke?

[The Negative Zone]

Eddie now wanting to Eat Spider-man brains regression, you think it's part of the corruption of Limbo and Maddie because it seems to be undoing the development of both Cates and Ewing. The original Venom symbiote is not even with Eddie anymore, its with Dlyan.

nah I'm pretty sure Eddie will go back to "normal" at the end of the story. Ewing is still writing you know.

[JustLuke]

Found this on a...certain site and I can't stop laughing.

[Refrax5]

Found this on a...certain site and I can't stop laughing.

This is amazing.

[TinkerSpider]

What if the new editor isn't a real person and the editor's page is some kind of meta-joke?

That's my guess. They aren't going to hand off the editorial reins of Marvel's biggest character, even for an event, to someone who doesn't have a track record in comics or other types of publishing. The stakes are too high. And when you Google Albert/Al Banaszak, he's either someone living in Poland (and not Brooklyn as it says per the letters page), or he's someone who owns a sewage drainage company in WI.

Although...the letters page does mention WI. Hmmm.

And Nick Lowe is still listed as the editor for Slott-Man and as executive editor of Miles's book.

[Sr. Bungle]

What if the new editor isn't a real person and the editor's page is some kind of meta-joke?

That's my take too. If you read the intro is pretty clear. The names surely are taken from his father and her mother's maiden name or something like that.

[Mercwmouth12]

That's my take too. If you read the intro is pretty clear. The names surely are taken from his father and her mother's maiden name or something like that.

Or it's a new editor to guide through the course correction

[Pav]

What if the new editor isn't a real person and the editor's page is some kind of meta-joke?

That... that isn't obvious to everyone...?

-Pav, who wonders if it's a combo of his uncle's first name and aunt's maiden name...

[boots]

Found this on a...certain site and I can't stop laughing.

can't pretend some of this wasn't funny but i can do without the "no homo" humour

otherwise, i'm genuinely pleased so many people appear to have enjoyed this issue

[Huntsman Spider]

Found this on a...certain site and I can't stop laughing.

This is amazing.

This is quite hilarious, which is something we all desperately need right now. Thanks for sharing.

[PanicPixieDreamGirl]

To be fair to Peter (Wells version), the Norman that Peter is comforting is a bit of Norman that did not sell his son to the devil. The bit that sold his son to the devil is currently running around in Ashley Kafka. (What metaphysics of personal identity is implied here is a possible subject of an essay in one of those Philosophy of Spider-man collections. I do not know whether it would be an interesting essay.)

To be fair I would totally read that essay.

[stillanerd]

Just thought I'd throw in a little Nerdy Nitpick for the day about this issue. Regarding that hilarious scene where Madelyne Pryor is getting all the demonic hordes of Limbo ready for their invasion of Earth by playing a song on an oversized organ and chanting Textus Tanebrarum. What they are chanting is Latin (of course!) which, in its literal translation, reads as "The Text of Darkness." However, considering that Madelyne is playing music, it would make way more sense if she and her minions were chanting Canticum Tenebrarum or "The Song of Darkness." I mean, if she wants to go all gothic and evil, the least she can do is know how to chant her dead languages properly.

[Tendrin]

Peter should not be gently comforting Norman about the death of his son who probably wouldn't have died (either time) had Norman not sold him to the devil.

Like... he sold his son to the devil, Peter. That is a thing Norman did. Pre-Goblin Norman even.

Honestly, I think they're probably going to ignore this. It was a very dumb idea in the first place.

[Kurolegacy]

Honestly, I think they're probably going to ignore this. It was a very dumb idea in the first place.

Unless they find some way to retcon that, even if they do ignore it, it’s all the more reason why the audience should unsympathetic towards Norman even if Wells’ intentions are for him to be. Doesn’t matter how cleansed of sun you may be, damning someone innocent to Hell isn’t something you can come back from especially when it’s in the pursuit of greed.

[dornwolf]

Found this on a...certain site and I can't stop laughing.

Gotta wonder what it’s like taking a character people like, badly making him a villain, thinks he’d get over like Venom originally did. Only for everyone to nope out and treat it as a joke