GREG WEISMAN is writing AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #622!

[Persian]

Hi everyone!
this is probably stale news but according to solicitations for Marvel's February 2010 Releases, Mr. Weisman is writing ASM# 622 with Fred Van Lente! Isn't it just great?
Here is the official news from Marvel:

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #622
Written by GREG WEISMAN & FRED VAN LENTE
Pencilled by LUKE ROSS & JOE QUINONES
Cover by SIMONE BIANCHI

As the Gauntlet rages on around him, the spotlight is on Peter Parker's original archenemy-turned-best friend, Flash Thompson. Since losing his legs in service to his country, Flash Thompson's not been deterred by his physical limitations. But even a hero can have his limits. Greg Weisman, one of the brains behind the smash TV hit Spectacular Spider-Man, teams with Luke Ross (CAPTAIN AMERICA) to bring a touching story of Flash Thompson coming to terms with his new life. Then, Fred Van Lente and Joe Quinones (WEDNESDAY COMICS) bring Spider-Man face-to-face with Morbius, The Living Vampire!
40 PGS./Rated A …$3.99

P.S: the line "Greg Weisman, one of the brains behind the smash TV hit Spectacular Spider-Man" kinda shows that Marvel is aware of the show's success!

 

[Webhead2006]

yea read about it a few days ago.

 

[carnage899]

Why are they bringing back Morbius? Mysterio, Rhino, Sandman, Electro - good. But is Morbius considered a classic villain?

 

[Persian]

i agree with you. Morbius is not a good spider-man villain. all in all, supernatural and horror dont really mix very well with the fairly-grounded-in-reality world of our beloved hero. i also hope that in case spectacular spider-man is renewed, his ugly face wont pop up in the series!

 

[Webhead2006]

yea i like the mob bosses and aliens, and science base foes myself for spidey. Though i have no ill feelings towards morbius.

 

[Venom 1988]

Why are they bringing back Morbius? Mysterio, Rhino, Sandman, Electro - good. But is Morbius considered a classic villain?

Hey Morbius is cool
I usually count villains that appeared in the first 100 issues as classic, but Morbius might as well be.....he appeared in 101

 

[venom892]

So wait the living brain is a classic villain?

 

[carnage899]

@Venom 1998 - other classics not from the first 100 issues - Venom, Hobgoblin, Carnage, Jackal.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

^^ Agreed, though, I don't know if I'd consider Carnage a classic. He's awesome, but i don't think he's a classic.

 

[Venom 1988]

@Venom 1998 - other classics not from the first 100 issues - Venom, Hobgoblin, Carnage, Jackal.

Sorry but I wouldn't count any of these guys as classic villains.

So wait the living brain is a classic villain?

Classic villains usually refer to anyone in Stan Lee's run, which is the first 100 issues. So yes lol.....he's just not really important

 

[Webhead2006]

technically yea they are not classic spidey foes but some of them are good foes.

 

[Persian]

As I said above spidey's world doesn’t mesh well with supernatural or vampires. Let's not forget that when Roy Thomas replaced Stan Lee on Amazing Spider-man he so desperately tried to bring some freshness to webhead's stories e.g. by taking him to the Savage Land and creating Morbius. But freshness isn’t always good!​

 

[Persian]

In a lengthy interview with IGN.com, Greg had the following to say when asked about the possibility of continuing the show in comic book format and also talked about Amazing Spider-man #622:

Weisman: I would absolutely be willing to continue it in comic book form, but obviously that's not up to me. My first choice would be to make more TV episodes, but a close second would be to continue Spectacular Spider-Man as a comic. If Marvel's interested, I'm there. All they have to do is ask.
I will say this -- I'll do a little plug – I did write one issue of The Amazing Spider-Man for Marvel, that I'm told us going to be in issue #622, which should be out in February. It's obviously not Spectacular Spider-Man continuity, but Amazing Spider-Man, current day continuity. It focuses on the Amazing Spider-Man version of Flash Thompson and I'm pretty proud of it. I've seen the first nine or so pages of art and it's gorgeous stuff and I think the story is pretty sweet.
IGN: Who's the artist?
Weisman: Luke Ross
IGN: Having spent so much time with Spider-Man as a character, was it fun to get the chance to take a different angle on him?
Weisman: It really was. It's sort of like jumping ahead to the future. We tried to create a Flash that fit the high school mode of the way Ditko and Lee presented him, way back when. But also, having in mind where Flash and Peter's relationship would eventually go, we tried to drop little hints of a more complete picture of Flash as we went along in the series. So then writing this issue about Flash Thompson: war hero and what he's gone through recently in the comics, which I think is very powerful, it was like flash forwarding for me from where I'd been in these high school days to years later with Peter and Flash and Betty and all that they'd done through in the interim. That was just a kind of fascinating process for me. I had a great time working with Steve Wacker, the editor on this issue.​

 

[Webhead2006]

nice

 

[Congo Jack]

yea i like the mob bosses and aliens, and science base foes myself for spidey. Though i have no ill feelings towards morbius.

Morbius, despite his vampiric abilities, is a science based character.

In a lengthy interview with IGN.com, Greg had the following to say when asked about the possibility of continuing the show in comic book format and also talked about Amazing Spider-man #622:

Weisman: I would absolutely be willing to continue it in comic book form, but obviously that's not up to me. My first choice would be to make more TV episodes, but a close second would be to continue Spectacular Spider-Man as a comic. If Marvel's interested, I'm there. All they have to do is ask.
I will say this -- I'll do a little plug – I did write one issue of The Amazing Spider-Man for Marvel, that I'm told us going to be in issue #622, which should be out in February. It's obviously not Spectacular Spider-Man continuity, but Amazing Spider-Man, current day continuity. It focuses on the Amazing Spider-Man version of Flash Thompson and I'm pretty proud of it. I've seen the first nine or so pages of art and it's gorgeous stuff and I think the story is pretty sweet.
IGN: Who's the artist?
Weisman: Luke Ross
IGN: Having spent so much time with Spider-Man as a character, was it fun to get the chance to take a different angle on him?

Weisman: It really was. It's sort of like jumping ahead to the future. We tried to create a Flash that fit the high school mode of the way Ditko and Lee presented him, way back when. But also, having in mind where Flash and Peter's relationship would eventually go, we tried to drop little hints of a more complete picture of Flash as we went along in the series. So then writing this issue about Flash Thompson: war hero and what he's gone through recently in the comics, which I think is very powerful, it was like flash forwarding for me from where I'd been in these high school days to years later with Peter and Flash and Betty and all that they'd done through in the interim. That was just a kind of fascinating process for me. I had a great time working with Steve Wacker, the editor on this issue.​

I hadn't seen this before. I had been waiting to see a writer from the SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN cartoon do something for AMAZING for a while now, and I'm glad it's Weisman. I think it's great that he's open to do SPECTACULAR as a comic if a third series doen't happen; especially since I think the show is a better reinvention of Spider-Man than even Bendis' lauded ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN.

 

[Webhead2006]

Hey guys i just wanted to give you all a heads up next wensday is when issues 622 comes out. So come on all webheads and support Greg Weisman!!!

 

[carnage899]

I hope this issue will be good, because Slott's Mysterio arc was kinda weak...

 

[Webhead2006]

i kinda liked it. As for next issue i believe its a one off with stories about flash and morbius. So should be interesting to see what greg has for these characters in present 616 spidey verse.

 

[carnage899]

Overall it was good, I guess, but Captain Stacy's appearance felt like a lazy writing to me. And at this point the Spidey/Mr. Negative feud seems like its going nowhere.

 

[Webhead2006]

well that was all a ruse by mysterio well i think they are building it up to have some big outing in a few months.

 

[Persian]

I have heard people complain about Slott's recent arc but I loved it and I do believe that he is the best writer on ASM right now.
And I also hope that the Greg Weisman issue will sell like hot cakes despite the fact that I have never even remotely cared about Morbius ​

 

[Webhead2006]

yea slott has been one of the writers i have liked in the current roster of writers, also like gale too.

 

[carnage899]

Isnt Greg only writing the Flash story? And the Morbius one is ny that Van Lente guy?

 

[Congo Jack]

Isnt Greg only writing the Flash story? And the Morbius one is ny that Van Lente guy?

That's right.

 

[Webhead2006]

yup i hope his flash story is good. though the only thing i havent really liked since the change in asm is that they made flash a paraplegic(spelling).