I think I have enough snarky things to say about this topic to give it it's own blog post.
Marvel announced who the creators are on their new, three-times a month Amazing Spider-Man. They are:
Dan Slott, Steve McNiven, Dexter Vines and Morry Hollowell
Marc Guggenheim, Salvador Larrocca and Jason Keith
Bob Gale, Phil Jimenez, Andy Lanning and Jeromy Cox
Zeb Wells, Chris Bachalo, Tim Townshend and Antonio Fabela
CBR exclaims this about the group in an interview with editor Steve "I can do any comic that is scheduled more often than monthly" Wacker:
"Steve, the line-up that's been announced is fantastic – it's like an all-star team of creators!"
Hey! CBR! PSST! You lack of journalistic integrity is showing.
I will agree that the artistic line-up is worthy of the term "all-star", but the writing team, and I like stuff each and everyone of them has done, isn't quite at the all-star level in the realm of comics yet. I mean, Slott has been getting close but outside of their Hollywood pedigrees, Guggenheim, Gale and Wells are not even close.
This is what I think of the writer and artist tandems:
- Dan Slott, Steve McNiven: I love both of these guys: Slott from GLX and McNiven beck to his CrossGen days, but this tandem is essentially a recipe for lateness. And more on Slott's end that McNiven's.
- Marc Guggenheim, Salvador Larrocca: I love Guggenheim, but I am becoming progressively more annoyed with Larroca's artwork. He is one of the worst offenders in the area of using artistic swipes of famous people in his art. Take a look at newuniversal. In any issue, you can spot Leonard Nimoy, the cast of the Sopranos, James Cromwell and other actors I can quite place just yet.
- Bob Gale, Phil Jimenez: Bob Gale wrote Back to the Future, one of my favorite movies of all time. He also did a half decent arc on Daredevil. And Phil Jimenez is a great artist as long as he's not rushed.
- Zeb Wells, Chris Bachalo: I have been a fan of Chris Bachalo since Shade: The Changing Man. And I don't mind, as some other critics do, the way his style has changed since then. And Zeb Wells wrote a few good Spider-Man's towards the end of the Peter Parker: Sider-Man series.
Of course, this is only for the first time through. The teams will switch as the year goes on.
And what will these stories entail? Well, that depends on how "One More Day" ends. A popular rumor is that the series will reset it's continuity. No marriage to Mary Jane, Aunt May is alive, etc. Normally, I don't like these "reset button" stories that come out of nowhere, but if it gets rid of "Sins of the Past", I'll will be happy.
One of the preview pages Marvel released has that obviously-Mary-Jane 'Jackpot' character in it. Which means that 'Swing Shift' is going to be in continuity after all, it seems.
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