Comics American Son new image

[bryanss3]

So newsarama just posted a new image from the American Son arc we'll be getting some new Spidey info on sunday. here is my new favorite image from AMS 595

if only Osborn's suit was ripped exposing the Goblin Costume he wears under it everywhere he goes.

 

[Themanofbat]

It's after Romita Sr.... not Ditko... I hope they fix that before it sees print...

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

^^ Agreed!

 

[bryanss3]

ooh I didn't even notice that till you pointed it out

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I hope this is the arc where Norman finds out Peter's ID again. Their relationship is dull without that dynamic, imo. 'New Ways to Die' did nothing for me.

 

[Mutagen]

You got an awesome name Ulcer.

 

[kguillou]

I highly doubt ANYBODY will be discovering Spidey's identity for the foreseeable future. Marvel went through all this trouble to put it back in the bottle, i think they wana keep it that way. Plus i remember Dan Slott saying that spidey did something so that it will literally be impossible for anybody to discover his identity. If you ask me that takes all the drama out of the stories because half the fun of reading spidey comics is the suspense of Peter's friends and enemies finding out who he really is. oh well....

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I highly doubt ANYBODY will be discovering Spidey's identity for the foreseeable future. Marvel went through all this trouble to put it back in the bottle, i think they wana keep it that way. Plus i remember Dan Slott saying that spidey did something so that it will literally be impossible for anybody to discover his identity. If you ask me that takes all the drama out of the stories because half the fun of reading spidey comics is the suspense of Peter's friends and enemies finding out who he really is. oh well....

Not exactly. The problem was EVERYONE knowing Pete's ID. There needed to be a restart button. However, Slott and other members of the brain-trust have gone on record as saying (paraphrasing) "Well, we can't be selective about who remembers Pete's ID and who doesn't, so the only thing that makes sense is for everyone to forget, including Norman, MJ, Daredevil." I wish I could remember where he said it, but in that same conversation Slott or Wacker implied that it wouldn't be a problem for people who have known for decades like Norman and DD discovering it again because it adds a dynamic that has almost always been there. It only got out of hand in the last few years (even before the unmasking) when way too many people were discovering it (like the entire Avengers, the entire Fantastic Four, Aunt May, Ben Urich, Robot-Master, etc you get the idea...)

Oh and thanks Doctor Doom. I imagine ole JJJ's got medicine for that stuff.

 

[bryanss3]

Not exactly. The problem was EVERYONE knowing Pete's ID. There needed to be a restart button. However, Slott and other members of the brain-trust have gone on record as saying (paraphrasing) "Well, we can't be selective about who remembers Pete's ID and who doesn't, so the only thing that makes sense is for everyone to forget, including Norman, MJ, Daredevil." I wish I could remember where he said it, but in that same conversation Slott or Wacker implied that it wouldn't be a problem for people who have known for decades like Norman and DD discovering it again because it adds a dynamic that has almost always been there. It only got out of hand in the last few years (even before the unmasking) when way too many people were discovering it (like the entire Avengers, the entire Fantastic Four, Aunt May, Ben Urich, Robot-Master, etc you get the idea...)

Oh and thanks Doctor Doom. I imagine ole JJJ's got medicine for that stuff.

MJ totally knows. I find it silly that Dare Devil doesn't know cause of how he figured it out, but not that a big deal to me I'm ok with it.

I really liked a lot of stuff they did in the book after the unmasking, but they couldn't do that forever.

 

[kguillou]

The problem though is, now people like Norman, DD, human torch etc are going to eventually RE-discover his identity and when it happens its gonna feel real cheap and we as readers arent going to care because we know that they've really known all along. Thats the big problem OMD has created, it has cheapened any potential future stories of people finding out his identity. The moment where DD says "Wow, your Peter Parker?!" we're all going to roll our eyes cause we know better.

 

[Themanofbat]

I find it silly that Dare Devil doesn't know cause of how he figured it out, but not that a big deal to me I'm ok with it.

What's the big deal about how DD found out his identity?

Peter needed a lawyer and Aunt May called Matt Murdock, who upon hearing Peter's heartbeat, knew he was Spider-Man.

It was all quite coincidental.

Read it in ASM #219.

 

[Web-Head408]

Moving to Spider-Man, "Spidey brain trust" member Joe Kelly joined the panel and talked about "American Son," beginning in Amazing Spider-Man #595. It's a 5-issue arc written by Kelly and drawn by Phil Jimenez. "I'm very excited about this arc," Kelly said, adding that it's a "Dark Reign" crossover where the "father/son dynamic really explodes" between Harry and Norman Osborn.

"It's everything that I look forward to in a Spider-Man comic," said Jimenez. "It's one of the most fun things I've had to draw, literally, in years."

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=19951

 

[kguillou]

Godamn i havta admit the stuff coming up in ASM sounds exciting as hell. American son looks great then after that Slott and JRJR are doing ASM 600 with DOC OCK!!! They're slowly winning me over....

 

[Venom 1988]

Man that preview looks great, looks like Menace is going to be sticking around for awhile longer.

 

[bryanss3]

What's the big deal about how DD found out his identity?

Peter needed a lawyer and Aunt May called Matt Murdock, who upon hearing Peter's heartbeat, knew he was Spider-Man.

It was all quite coincidental.

Read it in ASM #219.

thats precisely why I think its silly.

 

[Jack O Lantern]

The problem though is, now people like Norman, DD, human torch etc are going to eventually RE-discover his identity and when it happens its gonna feel real cheap and we as readers arent going to care because we know that they've really known all along. Thats the big problem OMD has created, it has cheapened any potential future stories of people finding out his identity. The moment where DD says "Wow, your Peter Parker?!" we're all going to roll our eyes cause we know better.

First off they're actually going to deal with the fact that these guys used to know but now don't. That's new story potential.

Secondly, giving Osborns current position, it would be impossible for him to know who Spidey is and not arrest/kill him.

 

[bryanss3]

I don't think re-establishing his secret identity cheapens the story anymore than knowing any day any character that dies could escape hell/come back to life, reappear in a story but it turns out that it's an alternate universe version of that person, time travel, and so on.... I think over the past few month I've finally got over OMD I mean its no more ridiculous than half the **** other characters do in their comics. Its just the fact that it was Spider-man a character so many of us love.

 

[kguillou]

Yeah i think thats precisely what made OMD so bad, that it happened to SPIDERMAN of all heroes. If it had happened to Tony or Daredevil or Wolverine, i dont think the backlash would have been nearly as bad. I'm pretty much over OMD myself and im looking forward to alot of stuff on the horizon (american son, FF4 team up, doc ock in #600) BUT you just cant help but feel a little mad knowing that the devil helped create this new reality that spidey lives in, thats all.

 

[Sawyer]

This arc looks ****in awesome.

 

[bryanss3]

Yeah i think thats precisely what made OMD so bad, that it happened to SPIDERMAN of all heroes. If it had happened to Tony or Daredevil or Wolverine, i dont think the backlash would have been nearly as bad. I'm pretty much over OMD myself and im looking forward to alot of stuff on the horizon (american son, FF4 team up, doc ock in #600) BUT you just cant help but feel a little mad knowing that the devil helped create this new reality that spidey lives in, thats all.

it also didn't help the pre-OMD there were so many stories that emphasized exaclty how much Pete and MJ mean each other.

 

[ScottishFogg]

Godamn i havta admit the stuff coming up in ASM sounds exciting as hell. American son looks great then after that Slott and JRJR are doing ASM 600 with DOC OCK!!! They're slowly winning me over....

See, that's what is tricky about this situation.

They have returned to telling the kinds of stories that always made Spider-Man a whole heckuva lot of fun. There was a lot of drama in JMS' run and they've opted for a lighter, brighter Spider-Man. Which I'm on board with.

The problem still remains that they didn't need One More Day to get here. They could have just brought in this "brand new day" without removing MJ from the equation.

Truth is, I'd love to see her in these stories. It's really an "apples and oranges" kind of situation.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

I love that Menace appears to be getting a more feminine look.

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

I love that Menace appears to be getting a more feminine look.

Same here. Spidey needs a few more female rogues.

 

[bryanss3]

I really want Lilly and Harry to get married think of the covers they could do for that issue. lol

 

[JerseyJoker]

Im loving these images.

This new arch really looks like its back full swing into what a Spider-Man story should not only look like, but told. Those images alone have me more excited then the sneak preview images of NWTD or CA thus far.

Plus, just mixing Norman and Pete together always is a fun mix.