Was unmasking himself in front of the World really the best idea for Peter Parker?
Comics Continnum posted an article concerning the telephone press conference held by Marvel concerning everyone’s favorite wall-crawler, and his recent unmasking to the public.
"Spider-Man will discover that unmaking himself perhaps wasn’t the best idea," Amazing Spider-Man writer J. Michael Straczynski said Thursday during a Marvel Comics telephone press conference.
"He becomes more and more uncomfortable with this decision," Straczynski said, noting that Peter and Tony Stark have confrontations and Peter begins to doubt if he should trust him.
Staczynski was joined on the conference call by Sensational Spider-Man writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man writer Peter David and Spider-Man editor Axel Alonso.
Following are more highlights.
* David said that he will be focusing on Peter’s work at school in Friendly. Issues #10-12 will feature “several” Mysterios coming to the school looking for Spider-Man.
He said the story ties in to real-world concerns with teachers, and Peter will have to decide what’s best—staying at the school, possibly drawing villains, or staying away, unable to protect students if/when villains show up anyway, calling Spider-Man out.
David also revealed that a former girlfriend will write a tell-all book about Peter, not painting him in a very good light. “It’s a character that has not been around for a while, so fans should get a kick out of it,” he said.
* In Sensational, Aguirre-Sacasa said his first post-masking issue will also be set at the school as Doctor Octopus comes calling in a story with art by Clayton Crain.
Following that, is a three-isuue story called “The Deadly Foes of Peter Parker,” a nod to The Deadly Foes of Spider-Man mini-series. The Chameleon leads a group of what the writer called “a rag-tag group of villains” unaffected by the events of Civil War
.* Alonso said that Straczynski is providing the “macro” Civil War story in Amazing, with the major story beats located there. “Roberto and Peter are telling the nooks and cranny stories,” Alonso said.
* The writers were asked if Spider-Man’s activies that might have been litigatible will come back to haunt him.
"A lot of what he’s done over years that has not come to his door because haven’t known where to deposit it,"
Stracyznski said."Peter’s friends who didnt’ know anything about his double life are going to have enormous questions," said Aguirre-Sacasa.
David said he felt it was more interesting to look at how people view Spider-Man now rather than a stream of court papers being served.
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