

What is it that makes you gravitate towards this particular villain? Speaking of classics, the first story arc deals with Spider-Man regular Tombstone. And of course being able to see him on Zoom and talk to him and have him text you and ask you questions and seeing those pages come in. There’s no other artists that I’d rather be working with on it. To be able to do Spider-Man stories with John Romita Jr. It was right after Joe Quesada came back as the editor and was really turning things around, and was on the book making you think, ‘Wow, Marvel’s good again! Look at what he and JMS are doing!’ I still remember being in my friend’s basement and looking at that Daredevil and Inferno crossover, Enemy of the State, Kick-Ass, and then that Amazing Spider-Man arc. But other than that, you’re going to have to fork it over! It’s got nothing to do with Tik Tok, I’ll tell you that. What did Spider-Man NOT do? Well, he didn’t viciously murder anyone. So what did Peter do? That’s the question, right? Knowing that I wasn’t going to get any direct answers in this interview, I went the other way. So that will be some of the fun, unpacking that as we go along while we’re doing some back-to-basics street level adventures.” We know who Spider-Man is, so it wouldn’t have gotten that bad if it wasn’t something really important to really big that he was dealing with. Some of his relationships are fractured and we don’t know why, but we know something super intense happened.

We started six months after something big and pretty bad happened. I definitely did want to dig into Spider-Man as a street level hero for the first arc, but I also wanted to shake up where he’s at. Zeb Wells: I think it’s the status quo…that gets us back to basics, I guess. I had an opportunity to talk to Zeb Wells about the upcoming run, and we also got an exclusive first look at some new preview pages from the issue!ĭen of Geek: With a new Amazing Spider-Man #1 coming out, what kind of story were we getting here, exactly? A new status quo or back to basics?
