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Yesterday was another banner day for Marvel as non-comic readers lined up to get their mitts on the Obama variant cover to Amazing Spider-Man #583. This was a limited variant, and some stores jacked up prices, which didn’t make too many people happy – including one ass of a store clerk.
What of other reactions?
Erik Larsen isn’t too happy over Marvel stealing his idea.
As far as Marvel goes– I can’t help but feel very betrayed. They duplicated the incentive cover–and preempted my upcoming one–and even used the “terrorist fist jab.” Clearly those in the “house of ideas” looked at what I did and found inspiration.
I hear that they’re even doing a story similar to the one I did four years back, where an image-altering villain disguises himself as the President (in my story the Impostor replaced President Bush and took his place for a speech–in theirs the Chameleon, the shape-shifting villain, is going to spoil a speech being given by President-Elect Obama). The whole mess just feels really underhanded. I feel betrayed and, frankly, ripped off and in the real world–the one outside our funnybook bubble–Marvel will spin themselves as these great innovators who came up with this terrific publicity stunt–instead of the thieves they are.
And I know what they’re saying when they’re called on it–”Presidents have appeared in comics before” and “Erik didn’t create Barack Obama” and blah, blah, blah.
The thing that Marvel is attempting to do is to frame the argument. To say “we’ve featured presidents in the past–this is what we do–it’s part of a pattern.” But that’s a false argument. The “stunt” was an alternate cover featuring Obama– which was something no publisher had done with any president in the past and one that received a lot of press when I did it. If Marvel had done alternate covers with Bush and Clinton or any of the others– they could legitimately claim that they were following a pattern and doing what they’ve done in the past– but that wasn’t the case. And theirs is not simply the appearance of a president in a comic book but one on an alternate cover– and one concocted to try and get some of the same attention that got. I did not create Obama– I did, however, have a character endorse him, long before he was elected while Marvel played footsie with Stephen Colbert– a joke candidate.
For those who didn’t purchase a $25.00 variant cover yesterday, Marvel has announced it is going back to press to make sure everyone has a chance to get on the bandwagon.
UPDATED: It’s the story you’ve seen everywhere from CNN to the New York Times to Fox News—Spider-Man and United States President-Elect Barack Obama meet for the first time—and to meet the unprecedented demand, Marvel is going back to press with Amazing Spider-Man #583 Third Printing Obama Variant.
The first two printings sold out immediately and Marvel urges retailers to place their orders by Monday, January 19th, using Diamond Code NOV088141.
Who is the biggest loser in this big media event?
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Or – “Wasn’t There Another Reviewer At Major Spoilers? Some Old Dude?”
It’s a little known fact that the month of December contains space-time anomalies that keep you from ever completing anything on time. Add to that a new paradigm at my office, wherein my team load has doubled and my patience halved, a tendency to want to spend time with my friends around the holidays, a scanner that works about half the time and my recent birthday, and I admit it… I may have been neglecting my reviews. Still, t’is nobler in the mind to beg forgiveness than it is to ask permission, so I’m back with a new batch of things you may have already read, but forgot to ask for my opinion on the first time.
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Marvel is set to releases a series of “Bad Guy” villain variant covers for the release of Thunderbolts #127 and Amazing Spider-Man #579.
Need we say more?
Really? Okay. Amazing Spider-Man #573, written by Dan Slott and Mark Waid, with art by John Romita Jr. and Patrick Olliffe, arrives October 15, 2008 for $3.99.
Oh yeah, there’s a zombie variant cover out there too…
Yeah, it’s been well documented, both in the Marvel Comics and on the Colbert Report, that Stephen Colbert is a nut for Marvel. Now the Marvel U presidential candidate gets to team up with Spider-Man in Amazing Spider-Man #573.
Marvel has announced Amazing Spider-Man #572 is going back to press for a second printing. The story arc features the Anti-Venom taking down Venom, and Norman Osborne thinking up “New Ways to Die” for our favorite web-head.
Take the jump for the variant cover featuring interior art by John Romita Jr.
Well of course he has – but not in the way you are thinking (although you are probably right there too), rather Marvel has announced Amazing Spider-Man #571 has sold out at the distributor level, prompting the company to go back to print.
The new cover features interior art from John Romita Jr.
Marvel has announced that Amazing Spider-Man #569 featuring the brand new storyline, New Ways To Die, has sold out Wednesday. That’s a one-day sellout release from an issue that not only has Norman Osborn returning to Spidy comics but the return of John Romita Jr. on art.
There’s no doubt in my mind that Marvel will announce it will go back to press, but for now the company says readers should check with their local comic book shop.
Damn dirty Skrulls are all over the place! Some in the very places we live and work. For Spider-Man, it’s time for friend and foe alike to join the fray and put those wrinkly chinned aliens in their place. Marvel has sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of The Amazing Spider-Man for you to check out.
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Here’s something you don’t see everyday – a 104 page comic that isn’t priced at $8.00! Amazing Spider-Man Family #1 looks like a Frequently Asked Questions on all things post Brand New Day. Plus the issue features the first look of the Marvel Apes universe. And we all know monkeys and comics mean gold!
Marvel has sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of the issue that arrives August 6, 2008.
Amazing Fantasy #15 is one of those seminal issue featuring one of the world’s beloved superheroes – Spider-Man. Marvel is letting you read that first issue again for free on the Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited site.
But hold on Dear Reader, this isn’t a read whenever you want type deal, the free read is for one week only, so if you want to check out the original story for yourself, best get your act together now.
Check it out! Not only does everyone’s friendly neighborhood Spider-Man have to worry about Venom, he now has to contend with the Anti-Venom.
Entertainment Weekly has the full photo, and a peek at the “New Ways To Die” story arc coming this summer.
It’s been announced at the New York Comic Con and over at the Myspace Comic Books page that Mark Waid will be taking a crack at the web head in Amazing Spider-Man.
Says Joe Quesada:
That is the beauty of [Spider-Man Editor] Steve Wacker. Steve and [Executive Editor] Tom Brevoort reached out to Mark, and I’ve always been a fan of his work. And I really loved the House of M: Spider-Man issues he did. It’s just a natural match, a natural pairing, to put him on that book if the timing and schedules work out. And they did.
I think what Mark brings to the book is a great sense of humor, and his ability to write young characters. Mark has a great “range” he can write in. He’s very well-rounded. But he has this light, airy style he brings when he writes young characters that’s great to read.
This is certainly an interesting turn of events. Looks like we’ll be seeing a younger Peter Parker, and with Mark Waid at the controls, the tales being spun should be “spectacular”. Lots more information can be found at the Myspace site.
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Okay, One More Day Fans… seriously, I know you are out there… Marvel has sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of Amazing Spider-Man #555 that features Spidey, Dr. Strange, and Wolverine teaming up to fight some new OMD bad guys.
One More Day continues in the thrice monthly Amazing Spider-Man, and things just seem to be getting worse for the wall crawler, as Spidey meets the Freak.
First, I had no idea Marvel was going to put me in as the villain, and second, I’m interested to see what Back to the Future scribe Bob Gale will do with this new story arc that is penciled by Phil Jimenez.
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