Dan Slott Leaving Amazing Spider-Man, Will Write Iron Man Series

IT' FINALLY HAPPENING. NOW OFFICIALLY.
vulture.com/2018/01/dan-slott-leaving-amazing-spider-man-will-write-iron-man.html

He actually might be pretty good with Iron Man desu

Time for a fucking party.

Variant cover for Amazing Spider-Man No. 799 by Ed McGuinness

>Tony Stark to become freelance photographer for Daily Bugle

God, Slott really is a hack isn't he?

Ooh God, I'm crying!

now who'll clean up the augean stables worth of storylines?

I thought Slott said they'd have to fire him to get him off Spider-Man?

Oh god, please tell me the darkness is ending.

>Slott leaving ASM
>America cancelled
>Iceman cancelled
>Actual editing of comic dialogue

I-is Weeabooman the chosen one?

>I never thought I’d see you walking away from Spider-Man. Was this a hard decision to make?
This was a decision that was made way long ago. I gotta feel like a jerk, because whenever someone would interview me, or whenever it would come up on panels, I would look out at people and say with a stern look that I was never leaving. Very much in the same way I was saying, “Peter Parker is never coming back. I killed him” [during The Superior Spider-Man]. I lied. I lied horribly. [Laughs.] But that’s what us storytellers do, we spin lies.

>At least you’re open about it.
Oh, totally. This was a long time coming. I had all these benchmarks I really wanted to hit. I was talking to [former Spider-Man writer] Gerry Conway about how long I had been on the book at one point, and he was talking about the speed with which the book was coming out. And he was going like, “You’re running a marathon.” I’m like, “Yeah, we’re running a marathon of sprints.” Because the book is coming out three times a month, or two times a month, 18 times a year. Spider-Man was coming out so rapidly. Like, when we were on the “Brand New Day” team, we had a team of four writers and I was one of them and we were doing it three times a month and we burnt through three writers and we needed to reload up with three more for the second phase. And everyone, the other guys were like, “You know, this was fun for a while, but this three-times-a-month thing was whoosh.” And I was like, “But, it’s Spider-Man!” And they’re like, “Dan, do you want to go too? Like, you know, you get four new writers.” I’m like, “No. It’s Spider-Man!”

Wait a minute....wont this mean Slott will finally have Mary Jane fucking Tony?

>symbiote's weakness is fire

I guess sweeping them under the rug is cleaning, in a way.

i haven't read mainstream capes in years, what's wrong with Slott has he just been really shit on Spiderman lately?

>will write Iron Man

I could always see the next furlong, I could always see what was ahead. Like, Get this far and I’ll make it to the next wave of “Brand New Day” writers, then, If I make it this far I get to one out of every five issues of [The] Amazing [Spider-Man ever published]. If I get it to this far, I get to [issue No.] 700. And so on. So I kept having these benchmarks to hit. And then I realized, once you hit ten years and then issue 800, the next benchmarks were way too far away. [Laughs.] So I always knew that was the zone. Anyone who follows my Instagram account, every now and then I would post these cryptic numbers from my whiteboard. This running tally, of which, that tally starts in like, July 10th of 2014, where I knew what I was counting down to and no one else knew what I was counting down to. I wanted to lock that in so I could prove I wasn’t lying.

>So 2014 was when you did the math and realized that sometime around 2018 you’d be stepping off?
It was also around the time that we were doing “Spider-Verse,” and it was such a big undertaking. It was the research you had to do, reading all the different Spider-Men of all the different iterations. And because we were working with two artists who were going in two different speeds, and also we had so many tie-ins from so many other writers where they needed to know how certain issues ended, all of “Spider-Verse” was written out of order. There were no two issues that were plotted in a row.

>Yikes.
[Laughs.] Yeah. And in the middle of all of that I was like, Aaaaaah. That was it. I was very much aware of, like, Okay, I think something inside me broke. But I am going to make this, man. If Spider-Man can lift that heavy thing off his back, I can do this.

Will my suffering as a iron man fan never end?

>And that old heavy-lifting story was called “The Final Chapter,” so hey, it all comes full circle. Were there times in that three-year span since 2014 when you started to go, Maybe I should keep going even longer? Or were you pretty dead set that whole time on finishing around when you’re now finishing?
This was pretty much my end game, was to hit 800. Well, not … We’ll get to it in a bit, but not really 800 but 801. And there’s a reason for that. I have all this math worked out where you hit this number you get to there, you do this you get to there. Eight-oh-one is special for me, and I wanted to get to there. There was only one benchmark left that I could hit and it felt forever away, and that was more issues of any Spider-Man comic than anyone. That was the one benchmark that was very much dangling out of reach like Tantalus. The reason why was Brian Michael Bendis. [Editor’s note: Bendis currently holds the record for most issues written of any Spider-Man comic, thanks to his runs on Ultimate Spider-Man and Spider-Man.] He kept writing, so it was a moving benchmark, and I just assumed he was never leaving. If I had known, if I had only known that Brian was gonna jump to DC I would’ve stayed on. [Laughs.] I bet you I would have stayed on.

>That’s funny.
Yeah, I had already told everyone like, three or four retreats ago and already cleared it with Marvel so they could get another writer ready and all the machinery was in motion. And Brian left and I was like, Nooooo. That put it within reach! Like, climbing all the way up to Everest and seeing someone else’s flag up there and going, I’m like 20 feet away, but I’ll turn around and you head back home. But, you know, there’s … for this master plan to work, it doesn’t have to be Amazing Spider-Man. Who knows? Like, two, three years from now, I could go back and go, “Hey, let me do Web of Spider-Man. Let me do a new version of Untold Tales of Spider-Man.” I just gotta hit that for 18 or 20 issues and we’re good.

>Extremis vampires hunt Tony Stark's across the multiverse

...

>And Surfer is over, too, so you’re really entering uncharted territory now. It’s all new.
We know where we’re going. We’ll get there. It was like I had a different flavor with Surfer and that just kinda cinched it. It’s fun to have the different flavor, it’s fun to do the different thing. One of the neat things about this is when you are writing Amazing, you start finding out you are part of a fraternity. A good one, not one of those creepy Skull and Bones ones, but this fraternity of Spider-writers. And you’ll do a panel with some Spider-Man writer of old and you have so many stories you can swap back and forth with each other and notes that you really need to take, because these are guys who’ve gone down the path first. I just had the best talks with Gerry Conway, and with Roger Stern, and all these different guys. [David] Michelinie, [Tom] DeFalco. And one after another, there was a common denominator, there was a common bit of advice they would all give, which, to paraphrase it, was, “Don’t leave. If you get a chance, you ride that as long as you can. Don’t leave.” It made me go, “Wow, okay. I am taking this to heart. I’m gonna go as long as it’s fun and just enjoy it.”

>What have you learned about the character over the course of your ten years of writing him? What are some crevices or nuances that you weren’t really aware of until some point during your run?
A lot of people have one take on Spider-Man. They go, “When he’s Peter Parker, his life is terrible and he puts on the costume and then it’s this great release and he gets to swing through the skies and be Spider-Man.” And other people have this take of, “His Peter Parker life would be so much better if he didn’t have to become Spider-Man. Spider-Man is a curse.” You start realizing, just the way you’re not the same person every day, Peter Parker and Spider-Man aren’t the same person every day. They have so many different flavors, they have so many different facets. There is no one way.

For the past near decade Slott, in combination of Bendis, has been this autistic writer who has basically sabotaged Peter's character for the sake of abiding Marvel's status quo. Peter is now a colossal manchild fuckup, and Slott was a supporter of abolishing Peter's marriage with Mary Jane. He's also very mean spirited, as seen killing off "Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends" universe for shock value

He will surely be better than Bendis.

And in a shocking turn of events, nobody will read Iron Man. Just like always

When I grew up, one of my favorite books was Marvel Team-Up. And in that book, Spider-Man would be with Adam Warlock on the moon. And then the next month he’d be with Doctor Strange in a mystic dimension. And sometimes you’d have people write stories where they want you to believe that Spider-Man is only a street-level character. You know, Spider-Man can do anything. Spider-Man can go anywhere. What it is, is he brings that street-level sensibility and that sense of humor with him. That if you make him the fish out of water, he’s still Spider-Man. It’s how he deals with that weirdness. So many people were so upset about Peter Parker’s CEO arc of “Worldwide”: “That should never happen to Spider-Man.” And to me, the fun of it is, what if it did? How would Peter Parker react to that? And the one advantage I had was, I knew it wasn’t going to last forever. I knew I was going to knock the legs out from under him and knock him down even lower than before and get back to that core Peter Parker. I knew what was coming up. So that gives you the freedom to do weird things. To swap brains with Doc Ock, to make him work at high-tech lab, to whatever you want, really, as long as you know you’re going to put the toy back in the box.

>I always wonder about this with comics writers, is there something frustrating about the fact that you do have to put the toy back in the box and that some version of the status quo has to return? That you can’t fundamentally change the character? Is there some part of you that wishes you could really shake up the status quo permanently?

I’m not that selfish. I think you do have to, every now and then, refresh and restart. Every now and then, you do have to go back to ground, because every generation deserves to have Spider-Man with them. He’s one of the greatest characters of all time, of all of fiction. If some 8-year-old kid is growing up now, he deserves to have Spider-Man go on the journey with him. It feels kinda selfish to go, “No, Spider-Man should age just with my era, and he should track with me, and he should go through these moments with me. And then he should grow old and then he should die.” No, it’s important that everyone has a shot to have Spider-Man be their Spider-Man.

>So, we can’t get into much detail I would imagine, but what’s next?
Oh, we’re jumping all the way to end, eh?

>Well, no, we can come back to Spider-Man.
Good. I’m gonna feel like a dick if I don’t go, “Thank you, Steve Wacker. Thank you, [editor] Nick Lowe. Thank you, all these writers and artists.” Can we save the “what’s next” until the very end?

>All right, all right. Do you have a particular favorite Spidey story among the ones you’ve written?
Ooh, that’s horrible because you’re supposed to go, “I love all my brothers and sisters equally. I love all my children.” But, yeah, of course, you’re gonna have favorites. I really love the story line, “No One Dies,” with Marcos Martín because we touched on so much Spider-Man history and put it into this cohesive story about how Spider-Man feels about every time he fails to save someone. The artwork on that was so gorgeous. And working on that two-parter was just such a highlight that while we were working on it, I made Marcos Martín make me a promise that he would come back and do my last story when it was time to end. And that was many years ago, because I already knew what my last issue was and I ran the story by him even back then and he was like, “Okay, I will come back for that. If I leave, I will come back for that.” And that’s 801.

I wonder how it feels to be so reviled that people are cheering about you finally leaving

>Ooh, enticing.
Yeah, but there’s so many I loved doing. I loved the whole “Dying Wish” arc and how much it freaked everyone out. And just the labor of love that Humberto Ramos put into that, especially the giant-size 700. I loved working on “New Ways to Die,” with John Romita Jr., because he’s John Romita Jr., for God’s sake. The final Superior arc with Giuseppe Camuncoli, the “Domination.” I’ve been spoiled working on these books, in that, for ten solid years, I got to work with the best people in the industry. Some of the nicest people, too. The most talented. Whether it was some of the guys I mentioned, or [Mike] McKone, or [Barry] Kitson, or Ryan Stegman, or Adam Kubert. So much of the entirety of what I’ve done has been with Humberto. That man’s amazing — how much he does and how well he does it. You could have easily done a book with Humberto Ramos without dropping a stitch that could run twice a month. He could do two issues a month on his head.

>Wow.
Yeah. People do not realize the amount of — not just talent but dedication and drive that he has. He will hit that deadline, damn it. Giuseppe Camuncoli is in the same boat … he will break himself. He will be bent over that art board. He’ll be, like, breaking his wrists. He’ll be doing whatever he can to get everything in. This was a daunting book because it’s not just Marvel’s flagship, it also has to come out at an accelerated pace and never miss a deadline. That takes people’s candle and burns it down to the wick. You have no idea how much blood goes into this book.

So, the Samurai is really cleaning the house, huh?

>Along those lines: It’s no small responsibility to be the premier writer for one of the most famous characters in superhero fiction. How do you not let that pressure get to you?
Oh, you do. You do let it get to you, and you do let it drive you crazy. What you do is you have these very wonderful editors like Steve Wacker and Nick Lowe, who then have to also act as your counselor. On top of everything else, they have to walk you off of every crisis and calm you down and get the pages out, and then, other days, they have to crack the whip and tighten the vise. If you’re gonna be an editor on the Spider-Man book it takes a superhuman ability, and Wacker and Lowe just killed on this.

>How do you think you’ve grown as a writer over the course of those ten years?
Waistline. This is how I’ve grown. [Laughs.] Yeah, it’s really been an honor. There is that part of me that would like to keep going because I’d like to call it the salad days, but as I just said, there was no salad involved. This is the best job I’ve ever had, doing something I very much love. And there’s that point where you just have to be grateful for everyone that you’ve gotten to work with and everyone who’s decided not to pull you off a book. Whether it’s [former editors-in-chief] Joe Quesada or Axel Alonso, or just … yeah. That was a weird thing, to go to Axel and say, “Yeah, this is when I’m leaving, I think,” because he was very nice. And when [new editor-in-chief] C.B. [Cebulski] was brought on, the day everyone found out the news, I got a call from him within five minutes of seeing it. Like, “What?” And he was like, “So, you know, I’ve talked with everyone. I heard you’re now going to be on this. I think that will be a great book for you.” And I was like, “Okay, cool.” So, yeah, I was kinda scared because it was like, “Oh, I’m leaving Spider-Man and we have the next book lined up, but now here’s a new EIC.” And he was okay with me going to that book.

>in the long awaited iron-verse event, Tony stark has to team up with a multitude of alternate universe versions of iron man
>they all look the same and are boring as fuck
>riry starkems is the mtf trans iron-myn who replaces 616 tony in an all-new, all-different series

The Shogun is swift and just

>Speaking of which: Now, can we talk about what’s coming next?
Sure. I am going from the flagship character of the Marvel Comics of my youth to the gem of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The linchpin. I am going to Iron Man.

>Hey, now!
Yeah! Tony Stark: He makes you feel; he’s a cool exec with a heart of steel. I’m all excited. They’d asked me to do Iron Man a while back, but by then I was at Surfer and I had Spidey and I was already overcommitted, so it kept gnawing at me. Like, Oh, man. I really do want to do Iron Man. This would be fun. And when that came around again, it was like, Okay, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I want Iron Man. I want this. I want this really bad. I grew up in a world where you could ask a layman on the street, you could ask the guy in the deli carving the meat, you could ask anybody, “Who’s Clark Kent?” and they could go, “Superman.” Who’s Bruce Wayne?” “Batman.” “Who’s Peter Parker?” “Spider-Man.” And that was about it. And now, we live in a world where people know Tony Stark is Iron Man. Everyone in the world knows who this character is, and everyone in the world knows who Tony Stark is. This is Tony Stark, Iron Man. This gonna be about technology in the Marvel universe in a very specific way and it’s gonna lead to very big things.

>"I want Slott off Spider-man and Bendis off Iron Man!"
>finger on monkey's paw curls

>What makes Tony an interesting character to you?
Reed Richards explores the universe. He wants to know everything and go everywhere. Tony Stark builds the future. It’s not that he’s not out to discover the next big thing. But he’s gonna take his own two hands and he’s gonna build where he wants to go, or what he wants to do. He looks at a challenge and goes, “How do I machine my way out of this?” When you’re a kid reading comics, there’s a feeling like, if you really wanted to, you could be Batman. You could dedicate your life, you could train and train and train, and you could be Batman. And you read Marvel books and there’s a feeling like, “If you did get superpowers, you would be Spider-Man. You’d be that guy, you’d be Peter Parker. Peter Parker is the guy like you.” Tony Stark is somewhere in between, in that we are not all that kind of … How often is there that level of genius in any person? But more than any character in the Marvel universe, he is the self-made man. You take him out of that suit? He’s a normal man. He makes himself the superhero. He makes himself into the thing he wants. There will be a very unique cast in this book of characters: Iron Man characters you love and Marvel characters that you haven’t seen folded into the Iron Man cast. So, at the end of the day, there’s Captain America with super-soldier serum, and there’s a god of thunder, there’s all these characters around him with these amazing abilities. But his abilities came from his own two hands. He made it, and he stands amongst the gods because of what he can imagine and what he can make. That’s exciting.

Old Sup Forums would have storytimed his run

If you bothered to read the email, he said he got tired after spider-verse and just kept saying that for shits and giggles.

Slott shouldve left after Superior. Honestly his run wouldve been mocked for the lows and stupidity of Superior but overall hed have been ok

We have in its entirety minus the 6-8 months that are lost to time

>old Sup Forums did it before
That's my point, new Sup Forums won't do it again

Does that mean someone will fix what he did during Spiderverse?

>Dan Slott gets his revenge on Bendis by writing out Riri and dumping her on the Champions
I hope War Machine gets brought back.

>that’s what us storytellers do, we spin lies.
What a nihilistic way to look at storytelling. It says a lot about Slott in just a handful of words.

>Slott stops writing a washed-up character to write a character no one cares about

Surprised this didn't get a sticky.

It's a demoralization of a lie, it's typical Liberal bullshit they do to make themselves feel better about being morally corrupt.

>Slott out of Spiderman
>Bendis can't take him

WE TRULY LIVE IN THE BEST TIMELINE

that was pretty obvious. We can argue that he got tired after Superior Spiderman, his last legit ogod storyline

I wonder what hack will take over Spider-Man?

That's kind of a low bar.

YYYAAAAAAY! there is a god!

Probably not
sorry

Nick Spencer maybe?

I’m actually ok with this. Hopefully he does a good job, but he can’t be worse than Bendis.

>This gonna be about technology in the Marvel universe in a very specific way and it’s gonna lead to very big things.
It's gonna be good.

I really wanted Slott on a C or D list character or a team of D listers cause he's great with those. But he could really clean up Iron Man from the mess Bendis left. He will streamline it down to a solid story.

>I don't read comics but I want to be mad about this

Don't spoonfeed the outragefags.

I hope Ewing gets Spider-Man. Duggan or Spencer would be good also.

You're all acting as if Spider-Man comics will immediately become good once he steps down. I remain skeptical, because knowing Marvel, they'll get someone just as bad on the book.

You only say that because anyone can do a better IM than Bendis

>Bendis dislikes Slott
>Now he is going after Iron Man after raping the shit out of Spidey
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>Spider-Nazi
I wouldn't be surprised. At all.

>Slott on Iron man
Makes sense after Big Time and Parker Industries
Cautiously hopeful

SCOTT LANG HAD THE POWERS OF AN ANT, NOW HE HAS THE POWER OF A SPIDER!

Honestly he could make it work.

It's not even entertainingly bad, it's just boring, we'd kill off threads just for 250 pages at a time with no replies

Would Dan Slott bring the Mandarin back?

>bendis leaves
>slott takes over

Sorry man but sacrifices have to be made.

So Silk's basically a non-entity now and can someone retcon OMD?

This is all you need.

Slott isn't a bad writer he was just on Spidey far too long. Silver Surfer was the best book at Marvel for a while IMO

>yfw it's Jeph Loeb
>yfw it's Ed McGuinness
>yfw he undoes OMD

I'm not mad at all but I was curious because I always glance and see a ton of people giving shit to Slott and was interested to see why

I guess it depends on how much stuff Bendis decides to undo before he leaves. If we're lucky, he'll have MJ find another job and distance herself from Tony. That or whoever takes over on ASM hopefully calls dibs on her.

I know Loeb hasn't been as bad as he was when he first got to Marvel but that dude needs a REBIRTH more than anyone else.

of course it won't, you're new Sup Forums and you won't do it.

no content, just bitching.

he going to get kill off and slot will retcon her away.

>yfw they miraculously get Morrison
>and Quitely to do the first story arc

At least there's hope for one of those characters now.

People keep using this page to shit on Slott, HOWEVER it was actually written by Christos Gage, a regular partner of Slott's when his schedule gets overloaded and he needs somebody to write the script for him.

Someone will be butthurt about this.

>constant twitter fights and banning anyone that criticizes him
>even stalking people that didn't even @ him
>constantly taunting and mocking fans, saying he's going to piss everyone off and then acting surprised when everyone is pissed off
>made peter job like a chump to otto so that he could swap bodies
>kept saying spidey is dead and people would forget about peter (even though nobody believed him)
>character assassination after assassination as otto fools everyone as peter while not even trying to act like peter aka stupid pills for everyone
>do an ending so bad that even fans of superior spider-man hated it
>make mj a bitch and have her date a guy that literally cannot make up his mind as to with ethnicity he is
>rotating cast of OCs that are dropped after a year of being hyped up
>spiderverse has peter and all other spiders jobbing to a family of vampires that peter magically forgot the weakness to until the very end (radiation)
>starts off spiderverse by killing off various spiders, including spider-man and his amazing friends and then threatening to kill the dog (probably as a joke... probably)
>constant lackluster stories after spiderverse
>peter becoming more of a manchild and acting pathetic
>shacking up with mockingbird who is the same sjw bitch she was in her cancelled ongoing

And that's just the short list.

Unless Slott kills her off in his final arc, she might still make guest appearances. As for OMD, I doubt that's getting undone any time soon.

>Priest will never get to write that Iron Man book that he's been wanting to for years

They're co-writers and that doesn't excuse Slott in the slightest. That's the final page to the arc and you have your crony do it for you? Oh and I know Gage was also shit during all this. He did the backup that shit all over MJ and had her using her iconic pose to sprinkle some salt on that wound.

Let me state she says this RIGHT AFTER Peter tells her for the first time that Otto took his body over. Peter's life is seemingly ruined and she uses this to distance herself from him. And Carly fucks off as well.

He won't be able to make Ironman sell. No one can for very long.

Kelly really was going at OMD in his Deadpool/Spider-Man run. Oh man, if Kelly took over ASM that'd be the best.

Finally, I can buy Spidey again.

Not since Carnage got infused with Chthon's magic.

After the complete failure that was Secret Empire, I don't think that Marvel is letting him touch a big title, not even with a ten foot pole.
He's probably gonna stick with shit like pic related and if it doesn't succeed, he'll move on with his Image titles.

>implying I'm new
Kek I'd do it if I wasn't using mobile hotspot

Yeah ok user, keep telling yourself that. Spencer is a company man and Marvel rewards loyalty.

>I wanted to keep writing until I hit 801 for bragging rights.
Why is he such a piece of shit?

Secret Empire consistently outsold every other Marvel book each month (except maybe Star Wars, but that outsells everything anyway)

how is that a failure?

How casual are you? Spencer proved himself with Superior Foes. Besides Cates is on Dr Strange

I've got a lot of mileage out of Normie's face in that last panel

>lied. I lied horribly. [Laughs.] But that’s what us storytellers do, we spin lies.

No it doesn't you fat piece of shit

>Secret Empire consistently outsold every other Marvel book each month
And yet it had a really hard time staying in the top 5 sales each month. Speaking of which, there were no other Marvel titles in the top 10 at all during that time. Maybe Star Wars, but that’s it. When you’re the king of an ant-hill, you’re
not a success.

I read Superior Foes. The only thing it proves is that Spencer like writing about shitty people and losers. Keep him away from Spider-Man.

How low are the chances of undoing Sins Past?

Sorry, but Gage also produced the best page of the whole SSM arc, so he is forgiven.