Comics Kaare Andrew's Spider-Man: Reign

[Gamma Burst]

Here's the News:
[WWC EXCLUSIVE] ANDREW’S ‘REIGN’ SET TO BEGIN WITH SPIDER-MAN
Writer/artist plans to punish Spider-Man and his loved ones in December’s four-issue mini, ‘Spider-Man Reign’
By Jeremy James

Posted August 4, 2006 1:00 PM


After six years, history has caught up with Kaare Andrews, and the writer/artist of December’s four-issue miniseries Spider-Man: Reign found his story of the future is now the story of today.

Running parallel to current continuity, Andrews described his story as an examination of two questions. First, without power is there no responsibility? And second, what happens to a city that gives away its power and responsibility?

“It’s an option,” Andrews revealed. “It's an opinion. This is me using the characters I love and making them suffer in a world that could or could not happen. This is not an alternate reality. This is my reality. It's happening and I invite the readers to explore it with me. My whole world at one point in my life was Spider-Man and now, or for a brief moment in time, I get to live in that world again.”

And Andrews is only taking “responsibility” for his book. He asserted this as an opportunity to look beyond the major rumblings in current Spider-Man books, and really explore the characters further than anyone else in today’s continuity. He plans on looking at a variety of aspects of Spider-Man’s world. He will explore what the life of a woman who marries a man with radioactive blood is really like. He also plans to touch on topics like what makes a man stop fighting and then brings him back and what happens to a world that no longer needs heroes. But more than anything else, he explores characters he insists he truly loves.

“I want them to know how much I love Spider-Man, Peter, Jonah and Mary Jane,” Andrews stated. “And then I want to apologize. I'm going to make them all hurt. I'm going to make them age. I'm going to make them suffer. And when they need to find strength most...I'm going to give them pain.”

The four-issue miniseries will be 36 pages an issue because, Andrews maintains, because a larger story needs a larger format.

Check out these preview pages from Spider-Man: Reign below.

http://www.wizarduniverse.com/magazine/wizard/001229221.cfm

 

[USMC]

Please explain...
who is he? it's been awhile since I've read Spidey, other than online stuff.

 

[MyPokerShirt]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaare_Andrews

does everybody put the black spider suit on a cover to promote a new series now??

 

[Citizen_Kaine]

WTF, is this supposed to be!? The preview pages are so random, I can't keep track. Can anyone give me an idea of what this is supposed to be about???

 

[Gamma Burst]

WTF, is this supposed to be!? The preview pages are so random, I can't keep track. Can anyone give me an idea of what this is supposed to be about???

Mate,this article is the only information I have about this story so far

 

[ragingdemon155]

I have no idea what the hell this series is supposed to be about,lol.

I've read that article over and over and it pretty much seems like its going to be a "dark" take on the character. That's all I've gathered from it and the preview pages suck.

 

[spideylover89]

^Me too!

Well I am sure of two things

1) Kaare likes the word pain
2) I have no idea what's going on

 

[Kool-Aid]

Do you suck good?

 

[spideylover89]

What?!?

Great add to the confusion!

 

[Kool-Aid]

It was just a joke.....you edited your post so now it doesn't make sense.

I refuse to edit mine though.

 

[Captivated]

I was intriqued...

And then I saw the art... What the hell!? Gross.

Not only is the art screwy (think Pat Lee on crack)... is this guy trying to say that Spidey, after beating a guy toothless, tosses him off a roof, turning him into a bloody, broken mess!?

Not in any universe I want to know...

 

[spideylover89]

It was just a joke.....you edited your post so now it doesn't make sense.

I refuse to edit mine though.

Oh ok haha I get it. I can edit it again so it will fit.

 

[Kool-Aid]

I was intriqued...

And then I saw the art... What the hell!? Gross.

Not only is the art screwy (think Pat Lee on crack)... is this guy trying to say that Spidey, after beating a guy toothless, tosses him off a roof, turning him into a bloody, broken mess!?

Not in any universe I want to know...

I read your posts with a Texas accent.

Spoiler

I just thought you should know

 

[spideylover89]

Haha

 

[Kool-Aid]

That was a pity laugh wasn't it?

 

[spideylover89]

No pity here. Despite knowing that she was from Texas for a while now, I have never thought about reading her posts with an accent. Now I'm not going to be able to read them without one anymore.

 

[Kool-Aid]

 

[spideylover89]

There seems to be a smiley craze in the forum right now.

 

[Kraven]

I was intriqued...

And then I saw the art... What the hell!? Gross.

Not only is the art screwy (think Pat Lee on crack)... is this guy trying to say that Spidey, after beating a guy toothless, tosses him off a roof, turning him into a bloody, broken mess!?

Not in any universe I want to know...

I agree, this was something that really made me mad. Spider-Man as an intentional murderer (unless there's something I'm missing) will keep me from buying this.

 

[spideylover89]

I think the art itself (minus the violence) just plain sucks.
I just can't read books with bad art, no matter how good the story is. If you can't accompany good writing with good art then it should just be a regular book not a comic book.

 

[ragingdemon155]

I agree, this was something that really made me mad. Spider-Man as an intentional murderer (unless there's something I'm missing) will keep me from buying this.

Come on now, Marvel has messed up alot with Spider-man but that's pushing it. They wouldn't have the character just out right kill someone.

 

[spideylover89]

*****ng? That's one of the best typos.

 

[ragingdemon155]

*****ng? That's one of the best typos.

Lol!!!

Didnt even notice that.

Time to sneak in an edit.

 

[spideylover89]

Cheater!

Seriously you should have left it, it adds a whole new perspective to your original point.

 

[Dangerous]

^Me too!

Well I am sure of two things

1) Kaare likes the word pain
2) I have no idea what's going on

Hheheh, yeah I could neither gather too sense much from that 'synopsis'.
Andrews is a fine artist sometimes, and the preview pages look good so I will likely be picking it up. I expect the black costume to be featured at some stage too since it is on the cover to #1