It's official: JMS to write Amazing Spider-Man
John Callaham
Congrats to both JMS and to Marvel. This is gonna be fun. :)
Jefferson Eng
"John Callaham" <jc...@vistatech.net> wrote:
>http://www.fandom.com/comics/editorial.asp?action=page&obj_id=233787
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>Congrats to both JMS and to Marvel. This is gonna be fun. :)
I never thought JMS would stoop so low....:(
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>
> In article <8qrs2...@enews3.newsguy.com>,
> "John Callaham" <jc...@vistatech.net> wrote:
>
> >http://www.fandom.com/comics/editorial.asp?action=page&obj_id=233787
> >
> >Congrats to both JMS and to Marvel. This is gonna be fun. :)
>
> I never thought JMS would stoop so low....:(
What? Seems to me like the new editor-in-chief at Marvel wants to do
good, and starts by bringing in a pretty "decent" writer for one of
their most neglected superheroes. Spidey is one extremely recognizable
character, and unless Joe has signed away a lot of creative control
(something I very much doubt he'd do), this is one heckuva job.
Given that the book is still selling well, despite most of the fans
proclaiming the current writing to be rubbish, Jms is almost guaranteed
to make it a #1 seller (he manages #14 on his own, #7 with an excellent
artist). And when the Spider-Man movie comes out...
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"Jefferson Eng" <jeff...@kiwitek.com> wrote in message
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> In article <8qrs2...@enews3.newsguy.com>,
> "John Callaham" <jc...@vistatech.net> wrote:
>
> >http://www.fandom.com/comics/editorial.asp?action=page&obj_id=233787
> >
> >Congrats to both JMS and to Marvel. This is gonna be fun. :)
>
> I never thought JMS would stoop so low....:(
>
>
ReverendVader
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>Jefferson Eng
What the heck is that supposed to mean?
Jason
Jefferson Eng
"Jim Ramsden" <ma...@jimramsden.com> wrote:
>Stoop so low? Just what does that mean?
Marvel = low-brow, lowest common denominator, 10-13 year olds reading the
rubbish they put out...
Even I grew out of the X-Men after Neil Gaiman's Sandman came out....
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revere...@aol.com (ReverendVader) wrote:
See above post....
Jms at B5
>rubbish they put out...
That perception is what they want to change. Big stuff is going to be
happening there.
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> >Marvel = low-brow, lowest common denominator, 10-13 year olds reading the
> >rubbish they put out...
>
> That perception is what they want to change. Big stuff is going to be
> happening there.
Amen. Although one has to admit that titles like _Thunderbolts_, _Black
Panther_, and whatnot have been good steps in better directions...
Mind you, what they've done with the Punisher? No thank you. Put
Ostrander back, and I'll take a look.
You already know where my level of trust is in re: yourself, of course.
Should we take this over to rec.arts.comics.marvel.universe?
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>>Marvel = low-brow, lowest common denominator, 10-13 year olds reading the
>>rubbish they put out...
>
>That perception is what they want to change. Big stuff is going to be
>happening there.
>
> jms
I wouldn't be so sure of that if I were you. Who's writing the other
three Spider-Man titles? I think you're going to be in for the fight
of your life in the next few months.
-==Kensu==-
Dwight Williams
I think they're down to two core titles now. No real spin-offs to speak
of, except _Spider-Girl_ which, until JMS moves in, will be the only
Spider-title I buy.
norv...@sirius.com
(Jms at B5) wrote:
>>Marvel = low-brow, lowest common denominator, 10-13 year olds reading the
>>rubbish they put out...
ISTR that I was older when I quit reading Marvel (18?) -- but maybe they
were still slightly good then. :-> Maybe I was just stupid, but I did like
reading The X-Men (and a couple of other titles) for several years. (I
reached my "I can't take this stuff anymore" point in '85-6, when they
started trashing everything they'd built up. I got fed up with 'em.)
> That perception is what they want to change. Big stuff is going to be
> happening there.
Well... if anyone can help Marvel in some way, it would be JMS. At least
you won't be writing for The X-Men, Joe, 'cause I couldn't take collecting
that one (or all its spinoffs) again. ;-)
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mini-series with differant teams. Brian Michael Bendis is writing the
non-marvel u "Ultimate Spider-Man" and is doing a bang-up job (so far).
Jenkins seems to also have a grasp on Peter Parker essentials as well, the
humor, the foibles (a recent conflict involved stealing his roomie's food from
the fridge). I think with Joey da Q. as EIC a lot of perceptions of marvel
will change. JMS' editor on ASM will be Axel Alonzo who is used to working with
high caliber talent over at vertigo/dc and knows that a good editor is a
facilitator not a re-writer.
Jefferson Eng
ad...@freenet.carleton.ca (Dwight Williams) wrote:
>> I wouldn't be so sure of that if I were you. Who's writing the other
>> three Spider-Man titles? I think you're going to be in for the fight
>> of your life in the next few months.
>
>I think they're down to two core titles now. No real spin-offs to speak
>of, except _Spider-Girl_ which, until JMS moves in, will be the only
>Spider-title I buy.
Well, the other regular Spidey title is being written by Paul Jenkins right
now (who's also writing The Incredible Hulk) and admittedly he's better than
can be expected, but I've a feeling that Jenkins is trying for a return to the
status quo of the 80's Spider Man...whatever...
Pf2144
So, is there any way to "subscribe" to this title? My nearest comic shop is
too far away to bother (I tried with Rising Stars... and got to issue three)
and the only online seller I've located has a $5.00 shipping fee per issue,
which is kind of ridicolus. I vaguely remember that some regular titles used
to let you subscribe to them through the publisher, though... is there anything
like that with "Amazing Spiderman"?
in_vale...@hotmail.com
Yeah, you can get info at
http://www.marvel.com/shop/subscriptions/direct.html and even do your
subscription on the site. It doesn't seem to give you a choice of what
issue to start it with.
But it's not been decided yet what JMS' first issue will be, though.
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Before you buy.
Jms at B5
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Given the current backlog of scripts and material and how long it takes to turn
the rudder on these things, expect the first book under my aegis to be out
sometime in April.
J. Potts
>rubbish they put out...
In article <20000927195123...@ng-fd1.aol.com>,
Jms at B5 <jms...@aol.com> wrote:
>That perception is what they want to change. Big stuff is going to be
>happening there.
I guess my local comics shop must be anticipating your future writing of
Spiderman. When I went yesturday to pick up the recent comics they had
pulled for me there was:
1) Rising Stars #10
2) Rising Stars Prelude (in full color with new cover)
3) Spiderman (#22, IIRC)
I hadn't asked them to start pulling Spiderman. They also were kind enough
to include Midnight Nation in my pull list without being asked. I guess
they have me pegged. If your name is attached to it, they pull it for me.
Of course, technically speaking the current Spiderman comics *don't* have
your name attached to them, so maybe I should ask that they hold off on that
one for a while.
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> >>rubbish they put out...
>
> were still slightly good then. :-> Maybe I was just stupid, but I did like
> reading The X-Men (and a couple of other titles) for several years. (I
> reached my "I can't take this stuff anymore" point in '85-6, when they
> started trashing everything they'd built up. I got fed up with 'em.)
X-Men WAS a good series in the mid '70s when I read it. Like you, I quit
when it became obvious that all the interesting forshadowing had gone
straight into the dumpster and they didn't even have the integrity to leave
their own history alone. The evolution of Jean Grey through the whole
Phoenix saga was one of the most inventive things going on in comics at the
time (super hero to super villain to .. super what?) , and they trashed it.
I think the main problem is the simple requirement of the never ending
story - most tales work better if there's a beginning, a middle and an end.
Corun MacAnndra
>
> I guess my local comics shop must be anticipating your future writing of
> Spiderman. When I went yesturday to pick up the recent comics they had
> pulled for me there was:
[snip]
I wish I could find a comic store around here that would pull comics. The
nearest store to me that carries Rising Stars is Another Universe and all
they offer is an email update list which I still haven't received anything
from after signing up several weeks ago. Add to that the fact that they
are not carrying Midnight Nation and you can see why I've gone to ordering
online. So far those are the only comics I buy, and buying RS only online
was too expensive what with shipping being about the same as the cost of
the mag. At least with two mags the shipping is a bit easier to deal with,
and the online store I buy from carries the alternate cover issues as
well, and at a good price.
Corun
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> Well, the other regular Spidey title is being written by Paul Jenkins right
> now (who's also writing The Incredible Hulk) and admittedly he's better than
> can be expected, but I've a feeling that Jenkins is trying for a return to the
> status quo of the 80's Spider Man...whatever...
That would be "Peter Parker: Spider-Man", right?
Could someone who's more into this than me explain what the difference
between the two titles is? Are they just Spider-Man in the hands of two
different writers or do they tell different types of stories? Does
events in one affect the other?
PPascal
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Pål Are Nordal wrote:
> Could someone who's more into this than me explain what the difference
> between the two titles is? Are they just Spider-Man in the hands of two
> different writers or do they tell different types of stories? Does
> events in one affect the other?
In the beginning of PPSSM, the new title was intended to focus more on the Peter
Parker point of view, and on secondary characters from Peter's private live. The
death of Jean DeWolf (a Peter David plot!) is a good example. Later, the title got
caught in the crossover madness and this side disappeared. Then I stopped buying
the SpiderMan titles.
I think that all will depend on the deal that will be done bw JMS and "Marvel
Characters".
I just hope that he will be able to do real plots without getting caught in the
myriad of stupid promo events thay always invent. The dismise of Chris Claremont
from the X-Men makes me doubt upon their good faith in all that.
Do they bring JMS in for the name or for the writing? As I have every confidence in
him, I know he will do for the better, but for me"creative control" and "marvel "
are are not compatible concepts - except for limited series...
Pierre