JMS- the "comics that don't suck" description is back!
Sean J. McLaughlin
the newest Rising Stars, the First Midnight Nation, and Avengers, (the only
three I still collect). While there, I asked the owner if Spider Man still
"sucked". Now mind you, I had stuck with Spider-Man since issue 200 of
Amazing. I'd stuck through all the extra titles they added, through the
McFarlane stuff, through the Venom Saga, through the clone crap, on through the
(ugh) relaunch at issue #1...but the final straw came for me when I picked up
an issue to find Spidey Homeless in an alley, waking up to find his clothes and
costume stolen.
The owner very graciously answered my question with the truth that it still
"sucked"...he then mentioned that Joe Quesada had been promoted and his primary
goal was to make sure that Spidey didn't "suck" anymore. A few weeks later, lo
and behold, I read about the rumors of JMS coming aboard. I was floored...this
is probably one of the only things that could havef brought me back to the book
and it actually happened.
Now, after reading the mission statement you copied on Psycomic for us, I'm
eagerly anticipating your first issue. I can't believe after all these years,
I'm actually going to start getting overly anxious again on my way home from
the shop waiting to read my newest issue of Spidey.
P.S.-you seem kind of soured on the Venom character...I take it this isn't
going to be one of the "old" villians you decide to still include along with
the newer ones you mentioned?
Thanks again
Sean
Jms at B5
jms
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Rich Johnston
says...
>
>Thanks, and no, I have no real interest in doing anything with Venom.
>
Eddie Brock. Peter Parkerused to wear the costume, and it kept that imprint when
it moved to Eddie.
Eddie and the suit are a couple. They belong together and are in love with each
other. The suit, however, still has longings for Peter Parker and he's used that
three-way relationship to defeat Venom before.
I think that's a pretty interesting situation to play around with.
Not to mention that the suit came from a piece of a planet stolen and stuck
together with lots of other pieces as a 'patchwork planet' in Secret Wars. Is
there somewhere a world of these suit creatures? Are they slaves to another
race? Is Eddie Brock really a white supressor of his black costume?
Oh gods, I'll stop now...
Rich Johnston twis...@hotmail.com
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Kim A. Sommer
Rich Johnston <twis...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>In article <20001022173351...@ng-ba1.aol.com>, jms...@aol.com
>says...
>>
>>Thanks, and no, I have no real interest in doing anything with Venom.
>>
Thank you Joe.
>Hmm, let me interest you... Venom is an alien that forms into a costume, worn by
[snip]
>
>Not to mention that the suit came from a piece of a planet stolen and stuck
>together with lots of other pieces as a 'patchwork planet' in Secret Wars.
Omigawd. "The Secret Wars".. advertised as an event that would change
the Marvel Universe forever. An early version of Survior without the
bug eating. No real reason given for the situation and at the end
everyone went home and Spidey got a new outfit. BTW - that was a comic
that sucked.
Eddie and symbiote (not even given a real nomenclature) should
accidentally get droppped into a plasma furnace. OR - even better and more
efficient, Marvel should exercise its own brand of RETCONN and never refer
to those characters again. That would be a much better universe shift
than what happened to the poor Beatles (strangely I miss the umlaut over
the 'a' and the double-t in their name the most) and the word epithet.
Kim
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jms...@aol.com (Jms at B5) wrote:
> Thanks, and no, I have no real interest in doing anything with Venom.
Good news, IMO. I admit I'm not a bit Spidey fan. Blasphemy, I know.
:)
I got enough teen angst in real life. I was always more into different-
kinda-world adventure characters like Dr. Strange and the FF.
But I'm a long time fan of John Romita jr's art (since his run on IRON
MAN, with David Michelinie & Bob Layton), am enjoying MIDNIGHT NATION,
liked what you said your plans were in your psycomic.com column
(superhero stories need to invest more elements of the real world to
help involve the reader and suspend their disbelief in the weird stuff,
and get back to being pricipled problem solvers for the sake of being
contemporary mythologiccal role models and generating stronger what's-
going-to-happen-next interest; too much of today's stuff has a thin
contrived plot and dumbs down the characters to get large doses of that
overrated angst), so that more than enough to break down my resistance
and give it a try. You'll have 3 issue to hook me. :)
scott tilson.
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