I løbet af vores tid på San Diego Comic Con Málaga for nylig havde vi den luksus at tale med de to vigtigste kreative kræfter bag Marvel Comics' seneste The Amazing Spider-Man-serier. Ud over at tale med kunstneren Pepe Larraz om de udfordringer, han er stødt på med at illustrere Spider-Man, fik vi også en snak med forfatteren Joe Kelly for at høre hans perspektiv på den seneste serie.
Under samtalen, som du kan se nedenfor med lokaliserede undertekster, spurgte vi, hvad der gjorde dette Spider-Man-projekt interessant for Kelly, og hvordan samarbejdet med Larraz har løftet serien til nye højder.
"You know, I really wanted to explore not just Spider-Man and his new status quo, but also why Peter is the way he is," begyndte Kelly. "You know, we always just think about Uncle Ben and great power and great responsibility. But we never look at his life when he was younger. And, you know, he's an orphan, right? I mean, he's an orphan who was adopted. And so part of this first arc is we get to see what middle school Peter was like and where he was a little bit angry and why he was angry and kind of a rebel, you know, not the nerdy high school kid that we know. That was very exciting for me. And then to have that directly linked to the story in the present. So we also have, I mean, Pepe [Larraz] does an incredible... The villains in the first arc, I don't want to spoil them in case people haven't seen. There's a classic and there's one that is classic for me, but it's still relatively new. And Pepe does incredible stuff."
Kelly diskuterede derefter nogle af de mere overraskende elementer i serien, som begyndte i april, og hvordan han måtte få speciel tilladelse fra Marvel til at bringe nogle af de mere dristige ideer til live.
"We got to... I had to get very special permission from Marvel to do some of the scenes that we did with Peter because of his history. It's really special, even though it seems like a small thing, especially in Europe, but it was a big thing for me to get to do. So that was... You'll have to look for that one. And Aunt May, I mean, it's just Pepe's Aunt May. And that relationship with Peter is unbelievable. And then after we have our first arc and J.R. comes on, everything gets crazy. Things get really crazy. So we set this stage... When Hellgate is introduced, things get pretty wild. And I think people will be shocked."
For mere fra Kelly, glem ikke at læse om, hvordan han er involveret i Marvel's Deadpool VR-spillet og de udfordringer, der fulgte med det projekt.
