Dan Slott Goes Whole Hog for Spectacular Spider-Man
We chat with Dan Slott about revisiting his Brand New Day and Big Time eras in The Spectacular Spider-Man, the new ongoing series from Marvel Comics.
This week, Dan Slott joins us for a giant-sized conversation about The Spectacular Spider-Man. Thanks to a little MCU synergy, Slott finds himself back in his early days, writing Spider-Man during his “Brand New Day” era. He’s dancing between the raindrops, attempting to fill out a previous Spider-Man epoch while hopefully expanding current continuity. Sounds like quite the magic trick.
Five months ago, The Spectacular Spider-Man: Brand New Day was a five-issue miniseries. Today, it’s an ongoing series, moving beyond Brand New Day, pushing into the Big Time era, and maybe soon The Superior Spider-Man? Not so fast. We get into it.
But seriously, with Dan Slott revisiting stories from nearly twenty years ago in The Spectacular Spider-Man, how will he reckon with his most iconic storyline? If he wants to bring this new Spectacular Spider-Man into modern continuity, he'll have to address Doc Ock. And in reflecting on Superior Spider-Man, Dan Slott reminisces about that catastrophic launch and the controversy that followed. Whatever the case, Slott is throwing everything into this new monthly book. He's going "hog wild."
The Spectacular Spider-Man: Brand New Day issues 1 - 5 were written by Dan Slott, illustrated by Marcus To, colored by Alex Sinclair, lettered by VC’s Joe Caramagna, with Tell-All pages by Marcos Martín and Munsta Vicente, and published by Marvel Comics. The Spectacular Spider-Man #7 arrives in shops on 11/25 (FOC is Monday 10/19).
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