9/21/2023 0 Comments Fan expo philadelphiaTD: The indie market has diversified intensely during the 21st century as independent comics have become mainstream in their own way. Spider-Man, he’s supposed to be scrounging for a living, trying to get a date, and taking pictures for the daily bugle!’ Suddenly, he isn’t anymore. It’s like ‘What? That’s not Spider-Man! That’s like Fantastic Four stuff. So suddenly I’m the science and dimension hopping guy. Or the fact that you have a Spider-Man who keeps hopping into other dimensions. Or, you have him build the suit in Stark’s jet in Far From Home, or using the equipment in Happy’s apartment in No Way Home, and so much of that comes from the comics. You play a PS4 Spider-Man video game, and those special webs he’s using, those come from the comics.You get all these different suits and those come from the comics, and everything becomes part of the mythos. Suddenly, we were building all these different suits and all these different gadgets and different kinds of webbings, and it’s interesting for me to see how that’s been done in other places. To have him finally get his dream job and be a scientist in a lab where he’s allowed to follow his dreams and incorporate that stuff into his spider life. So, I thought it’d be fun to give him access to all the toys. The first time he fights the vulture, he builds that device that disables his wings, but he stops doing that. That kinda bugged me because he was a science whiz. Once he’s got his stuff, once he’s got his web shooters, his spider-tracers, his spider signal, he just kinda stops creating stuff. It always bugged me as a kid that Peter Parker created all these great gadgets and gizmos for the first seven or eight issues, and then he stops. Out of all the adaptations that have used your work specifically, which of those do you hold most dear?ĭS: I’m very weird about this because there are certain things I’ve done in the lore that weren’t really done or overly done by me, and somehow worked their way into the lexicon because I wrote the book for ten years. TD: So, your work on Spider-Man has gone on to irrevocably change core tenets of the characters mythos. So yeah, Moon Knight, I’d love to do some Moon Knight someday. It was Evan, and he went ‘Don’t ever do that fanboy shit again.’ This hand came out from nowhere and smacked me upside the head. The minute the door closed behind him, I started cabbage panting, chanting ‘I met Bill Sienkiewicz’ over and over. They introduced me to him and I told him how big of fan I was of his work. Back then his assistant editor, Evan Skolnick and I were in the office alone one day when Bill Sienkiewicz stopped by the offices to say hi to everyone, and when he popped into ours I was trying so hard to keep it cool. When I was a college intern at Marvel, I was working in Fabian Niceza’s office. ‘You co-created Moon Knight!’, and he went ‘I guess I did.’ It meant way more to me than it did Don Pearlman. I went, ‘You’re Don Pearlman!’ and he was like ‘Yeah’. At one point I went to work at Valiant, Don Pearlman, the guy who first drew Moon Knight in Werewolf by Night and Marvel Premiere, was their art director. My comic book collection is like way too much Moon Knight. I’ll go follow Nova, and then I can have every appearance.’ That’s how I was with Moon Knight. But when you’re a kid growing up, you tend to latch onto characters created in your era. It’s really hard to have a complete set of Fantastic Four, or every appearance of the FF, or every appearance of Captain America, you just can’t own ’em. I picked up Contest of Champions because he appeared in a tiny little background panel. I even followed the Dave Sim book Cerebus because it had a parody of Moon Knight in it. Now I get this sense of anger when I see you can get it all in one spot now! All that work! I had to get on my hands and knees and crawl through back issue boxes in weird places around comic stores to get all that. Moon Knight had backups in stuff like the Rampaging Hulk black and white magazine. When I was growing up, they just didn’t exist. Nowadays, you can buy like, an essential edition that has it all collected. Back in high school, the Bill Sienkiewicz and Doug Moench run was everything to me. What haven’t you done at Marvel yet that you have to do before you can call it quits?ĭS: Oh man, it’d have to be Moon Knight. Your work on She-Hulk defined the character for a generation of people, and you’ve penned more Earth-616 Spider-Man than anyone else. Slott, you’ve had you’ve written The Silver Surfer as well as the Fantastic Four. Dan is famous for his work at Marvel comics, having worked on The Amazing Spider-Man for a decade alongside career defining runs on She-Hulk, The Fantastic Four, and more. Right after his wonderful Marvel Fanfare panel at Philadelphia Fan Expo 2023, Dan Slott sat down to chat all things Spider-Man, Marvel, and the woes of avoiding repetition with our very own Tyler Davis.
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