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Darragh Greene
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At his blog http://peterdavid.malibulist.com/, a fifth of the way down the comments
thread on Civil War, PAD writes:
Which is pretty much the status quo in both "Ultimate Spider-Man" and
"Spider-Man Adventures," which I'm going to writing for a bit, by the way.
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Oops! Looks like a spot of amphiboly played a part in my thinking that he
was going to be writing both titles; on closer inspection, it looks like
he's only going to be writing the latter.
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Mike Bunge
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"Marvel Adventures Spider-Man is according to Marvel its biggest
subscription comic"
And isn't Spider-Man in that book unmarried and more in line with the classic concepts of the character?
Mike
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Darragh Greene
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Yup! Imagine if, between Walmart and subscription forms in toy
packaging, etc., it started selling more than ASM?
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Jay Matthews
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What's the story on that book and "continuity?" Does it just leave out all the stuff that doesn't work? Not Ultimate, but not the regular universe (I refuse to use 616)? Is the "Adventures" line a separate kid-friendly universe or something?
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Matt Linton
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Marvel Adv. Spider-Man is pretty much self-contained light-hearted Spider-Man stories with little to no continuity. Starts from the origin and goes from there. It reads a bit too much like a Spider-Man cartoon aimed at younger kids (7-10) for my tastes, but I'm glad it's around. Not bad, but not much substance either. Honestly, if you crossed it with Ultimate Spider-Man you'd probably end up with a damn good Spider-Man comic book.
*I just checked out the Marvel website to see if they had an issue as one of their digital comics, but inexplicably they have Marvel AGE Spider-Man instead. That's the manga-fied versions of Lee/Ditko stories. Marvel Adventures is much better than that.
Edited by Matt Linton on 19 June 2006 at 5:41pm
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Dennis Calero
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Not bad, but not much substance either.
There's just no satisfying some people! ;)
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Matt Linton
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It's mainly the lack of subplots. Don't get me wrong, reading it is a fun five to ten minutes, but there's just something missing (and don't say growth and change, darn you!). I am looking forward to seeing what Peter David can do with the book, though.
Ideally, and I know this is going to sound like I'm slamming the folks who've worked on the book but that's not my intention...uh..anyway, ideally Marvel would put some more seasoned writers on the book, folks who've written "all-ages" comics that are just that, for ALL ages. People like Tom DeFalco, Dan Slott, Robert Kirkman, Howard Mackie, Roger Stern, Tony Isabella, David Michelienie, Steve Englehart, Marv Wolfman, Doug Moench, and many others I'm not thinking of at the moment.
Right now they seem stuck in the trap that a lot of entertainment falls into of thinking that if you're going to try to get kids to read something it's got to have cartoony art and simplistic, goofy storytelling. You can look at the first ten years of just about any of the Silver Age Marvel comics to see that isn't the case.
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Rance Johnson
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Matt, you can add John Byrne to your list of "all-ages" writers.
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Matt Linton
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I'd love to see JB on a Spider-Man book, but he's made it clear that's not going to happen anytime soon, so I left him off the list.
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