Författaren Dan Slott har nu officiellt gått ut med att han kommer att lämna serietidningen Amazing Spider-Man i juni. Slott har varit ensam författare över Spider-Mans huvudserie sedan 2010, och har lyckats kasta ur sig många underhållande berättelser med hjälten genom åren (som exempelvis Spider-Island, Spider-Verse och Superior Spider-Man). Men nu är det dags att gå vidare till nya projekt hos Marvel. Det är nämligen bekräftat att Slott, inom kort, kommer att skriva på en helt ny serietidning med Tony Stark/Iron Man. I en intervju med Vulture så pratar Slott mer om valet av att lämna Amazing Spider-Man:
"This was a decision that was made way long ago. I gotta feel like a jerk, because whenever someone would interview me, or whenever it would come up on panels, I would look out at people and say with a stern look that I was never leaving. Very much in the same way I was saying, "Peter Parker is never coming back. I killed him" [during The Superior Spider-Man]. I lied. I lied horribly. But that's what us storytellers do, we spin lies."
Slott avslöjar även att han, ända sedan 2014, har haft en färdig planering för vilket nummer som skulle bli hans sista med Spider-Man:
"I kept having these benchmarks to hit. And then I realized, once you hit ten years and then issue 800, the next benchmarks were way too far away. [Laughs] So I always knew that was the zone. Anyone who follows my Instagram account, every now and then I would post these cryptic numbers from my whiteboard. This running tally, of which, that tally starts in like, July 10th of 2014, where I knew what I was counting down to and no one else knew what I was counting down to. I wanted to lock that in so I could prove I wasn't lying."
"There was only one benchmark left that I could hit and it felt forever away, and that was more issues of any Spider-Man comic than anyone. That was the one benchmark that was very much dangling out of reach like Tantalus. The reason why was Brian Michael Bendis. He kept writing, so it was a moving benchmark, and I just assumed he was never leaving. If I had known, if I had only known that Brian was gonna jump to DC I would've stayed on. [Laughs] I bet you I would have stayed on."
Ingen kan argumentera emot att Dan Slott, på både gott och ont, har lyckats koka ihop många intressanta seriekoncept tillsammans med Spider-Man. Men efter flera år med samma författare så kommer det nog att bli uppfriskande med ett nytt namn bakom spakarna. Men hursomhelst så ska det bli riktigt spännande att få se vad Slott har planerat för spindeln inför författarens sista nummer, Amazing Spider-Man #801, som släpps i juni.
Dan Slott har skrivit många spännande Spider-Man-berättelser genom åren. Som exempelvis Spider-Verse, från 2014