« Home | Reading comics on tablets like the iPad » | New GN addresses housing issues » | Marvel still employs a most unsuitable and reprehe... » | Nottingham's first InkBlot festival » | University of Wyoming sets up exhibit of Stan Lee'... » | 23rd East Coast Black Age convention » | Former X-Men 97 producer confirms he deliberately ... » | A planned Marvel TV show based on a Dan Slott crea... » | Jerry Seinfeld regrets late 2000s animated movie b... » | Don Perlin passes away at 94 » 

Saturday, May 25, 2024 

J. Michael Straczynski sadly returns to write a Spidey story

Superhero Hype announced there's a new Spider-Man anthology special being published focused on the 80s era of the black symbiote costume, and look who one of the contributing writers is:
The second story finds Peter Parker coping with a vestige of the symbiote that stayed dormant for years, waiting to attack when his guard was down. This story will be scripted by J. Michael Straczynski. The art will be provided by artist Sumit Kumar in their Marvel Comics debut. Finally, Dustin Nguyen will write and draw a spine-tingling story about Spider-Man being hunted by an unseen enemy.
What a groaner. JMS was never qualified to write any of these creations, definitely not since the turn of the century, and now, following his pretentious setups for Captain America, he shows up again at the Spidey doorstep, and is bound to be as unfaithful to the wall-crawler's history as he was before. It won't be shocking if, at this point, he not only doesn't make use of Mary Jane Watson, faithfully or otherwise, but doesn't care either.

What this makes clear is that Marvel is way past the point where they could excite anybody in the know how awful JMS's Spidey run was over 2 decades ago. What true Spidey fan wants to check out a story by an overrated Hollywooder who could only think of "getting inside Peter Parker's head", and whose pretentious run ended with the Spider-marriage dismantled? This new special is not something to care about, and anybody who liked the 80s era would do better to search for the stories written in those times 4 decades ago, whether in pamphlets or paperback/hardcover reprints.

Labels: , , , , , , ,

About me

  • I'm Avi Green
  • From Jerusalem, Israel
  • I was born in Pennsylvania in 1974, and moved to Israel in 1983. I also enjoyed reading a lot of comics when I was young, the first being Fantastic Four. I maintain a strong belief in the public's right to knowledge and accuracy in facts. I like to think of myself as a conservative-style version of Clark Kent. I don't expect to be perfect at the job, but I do my best.
My profile

Archives

Links

  • avigreen2002@yahoo.com
  • Fansites I Created

  • Hawkfan
  • The Greatest Thing on Earth!
  • The Outer Observatory
  • Earth's Mightiest Heroines
  • The Co-Stars Primer
  • Realtime Website Traffic

    Comic book websites (open menu)

    Comic book weblogs (open menu)

    Writers and Artists (open menu)

    Video commentators (open menu)

    Miscellanous links (open menu)

  • W3 Counter stats
  • Bio Link page
  • blog directory Bloggeries Blog Directory View My Stats Blog Directory & Search engine eXTReMe Tracker Locations of visitors to this page  
    Flag Counter Free Hit Counters
    Free Web Counter

    This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?

    make money online blogger templates

Older Posts Newer Posts

The Four Color Media Monitor is powered by Blogspot and Gecko & Fly.
No part of the content or the blog may be reproduced without prior written permission.
Join the Google Adsense program and learn how to make money online.