WWLA: Spidey News! ***BIG SPOILERS***

[Dan Slott]

Hi!
We just wrapped up the Big Spidey Panel @ the WWLA Convention!
Thanks to Marc's iPhone, I was able to call in from NYC and take part in all the fun (though, I swear to God, I could only hear half of what anyone was saying!). :)

Anyway...

LOTS of BIG NEWS!

LOTS of SPOILERS!

Consider yourself warned...

If you want to read what happened, here's a link to the CBR coverage:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=13365

If you just wanna see the super cool art, check the following post!

(Drum roll please...)

[Dan Slott]

Art from the SUPER-TALENTED MARCOS MARTIN!

From ASM #559:
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/DanSlott/ASM-Marcos-1.jpg

From ASM #560:
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/DanSlott/ASM-MArcos-2.jpg

The Cover to ASM #561:
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/DanSlott/ASM-MARTIN-Cover.jpg
Psst... Check out the newspaper clippings for Easter Eggs. :)

Pretty SWEET art, right?!

More on the way...

[Dan Slott]

Check out this fan-fave artist who's coming onto Spidey!

Hey! It's MIKE McKONE!

Check out a page of his interiors...
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/DanSlott/ASM-McKone.jpg
What?! A CIVIL WAR flashback?!! But how?...

Here's the cover to his first issue in GLORIOUS COLOR! :)
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/DanSlott/ASM562_cov.jpg
This is Part One of the story following my Peter Parker: Paparazzi arc.

And here's his second cover, which has got to be, hands down, the FUNNEST Spidey Cover in YEARS! :D
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/DanSlott/ASM-McKone-Cover.jpg

I am SO jealous that Bob Gale gets to work with him first! I so hope I get to use him on one of my Spidey issues! He's awesome!

One last batch of art to go...

[Dr. Hackenbush]

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/DanSlott/ASM-McKone-Cover.jpg

That is a great cover, Dan.

[Dan Slott]

Okay...
It's been said before, but we've been coy about saying it again...
But, yeah, you heard us right the FIRST TIME:

JOHN ROMITA JR. is coming back to AMAZING SPIDER-MAN!

And there's no dancing around it now! We're doing this! I am SO frickin' HAPPY!
It's our first big SIX PARTER! It's coming out in the LATE SUMMER OF '08!
A couple of SUPER-BIG-TIME SPIDEY VILLAINS!
And it's called...

NEW WAYS TO DIE

And at the con we confirmed that it's about NORMAN OSBORN bringing THE THUNDERBOLTS into NYC to HUNT DOWN SPIDER-MAN!!!!

So yeah, right there that gives you Norman
Venom
and some other guys, like BULLSEYE
But trust us, we've still got a trick or two up our sleeves... :)

I can't tell you how STOKED I am about this! This's is my FIRST six-parter since ARKHAM ASYLUM: LIVING HELL! And let me tell you, I'm pulling out the stops! Well.. Maybe I shouldn't tell you-- after all it's still a ways away. Maybe I should just shut up and let John Jr. SHOW you...

Spider-Fans! Feast your eyes on the first looks at AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: NEW WAYS TO DIE! And JOHN ROMITA JR.'S RETURN TO ASM!
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/DanSlott/ASM568001_col.jpg
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/DanSlott/ASM568002_col.jpg
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/DanSlott/ASM568003_col.jpg
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/DanSlott/ASM568004_col.jpg
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/DanSlott/ASM568005scol.jpg

:):spidey::):spidey::):spidey::)
I CAN'T WAIT!
ttyl
Dan

[Spidey616]

I LOVE YOU DAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!

:D

Is this the chase scene you've said at various cons that Bob Gale helped you out on?
From ASM #559:
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/DanSlott/ASM-Marcos-1.jpg

So those are the 6 beats you were talking about at the Big Apple Con. NICE!

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/DanSlott/ASM568001_col.jpg
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/DanSlott/ASM568002_col.jpg
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/DanSlott/ASM568003_col.jpg
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/DanSlott/ASM568004_col.jpg
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/DanSlott/ASM568005scol.jpg

I'm surprised that Bog instead of Marc or Zeb is following your Paparazzi story, since he already had one before it. I'm still not clear how the "passing of the batton" works with thrice montly Spidey, but looks like ANYTHING goes.

[Omega Flight]

I am so fucking stoked. The Thunderbolts vs Spidey? This in addition to the Enforcers taking him on.

[Amedeo]

JJR back on Spidey?! My day has been made.

[The Marvel Girl]

.........Oh my.

The pure awesome that is contained in this thread is mindblowing.

I mean...ABSOLUTELY mind blowing.

[Dingo]

Wow.



.

[Crimson]

And at the con we confirmed that it's about NORMAN OSBORN bringing THE THUNDERBOLTS into NYC to HUNT DOWN SPIDER-MAN!!!!


YES!

That means even if he is a Skrull now it still means he's in the TBolts.

Awesome! It's the first time he's been interesting in years, I was worried it would be retconned.

[tom daylight]

And now, Dan, you have to come up with dialogue for those pages :)

How come the "BRAND NEW DAY" logo is still there on #561? I thought it ended with #557.

I saw someone moan on another board about Montana having a whip instead of his "sacred" lasso... like Bob Gale said, get a life! :roll:

[brodieb]

Art from the SUPER-TALENTED MARCOS MARTIN!

From ASM #560:
http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g18/DanSlott/ASM-MArcos-2.jpg



Slott can make me chuckle without writing a word.

[brodieb]

NEW WAYS TO DIE

And at the con we confirmed that it's about NORMAN OSBORN bringing THE THUNDERBOLTS into NYC to HUNT DOWN SPIDER-MAN!!!!

:):spidey::):spidey::):spidey::)
I CAN'T WAIT!
ttyl
Dan

Ditto that.

Warren Ellis has been setting this story up since he took over TBolts (which, as good as it was with Fabian writing, is even better with Ellis -- one of my top 3 or 4 books right now). And I'm totally psyched that it's Dan who gets to write it.

[Ben Morgan]

Awesome panel, I was there

but the discussion was quickly derailed by some metathesis involving the word "gonad."

Oh god, that was hilarious!

[Dingo]

Awesome panel, I was there



Oh god, that was hilarious!

I was wondering about that, do share....

[Ben Morgan]

I think the character someone was asking about was called "Nomad" and Dan misheard and started taking about something called "Gonad". Much hilarity ensued http://forums.comicbookresources.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif