With Great Power....I got nothing

And that my good friends is the basis for the new Marvel Spider-Man comic, Spider-Man: With Great Power. Coming out in January of 2008, this is not a modern story, but one of Peter Parkers youth. For the astute reader, in Amazing Fantasy #15, there is a panel that shows many newspaper clippings about Spidey's fame. Obviously for him to get so popular some time must pass. Even today, with our pop-centered micro-second ultra fame reality shows and such, it still takes a couple of weeks before someone starts putting their names on the front page of a newspaper. So Spidey must have been big, really f'ing famous. All before Uncle Ben died. But how much time? No one's sure, not even the creators of the new series. But who are these mysterious uber-men who can pierce the veil of time so easily and pull stories from out of the ether? (That's ether in the Hunter S. sense, not the ethereal sense) None other then David Lapham and Tony Harris. But wait, isn't Tony Harris already doing another book? Something about machines or such? Where does he find the time? Oh, that might explain the one issue in how long?

On with it already! Anyway, this is supposed to be about Peter, after the bite, before the hero. All power, no responsibility. I think this is the guy they showed in those House of M tie-ins. A little money, some groupies, all the benefits of being a media darling. That's about it, they really haven't put out too many details about what will be happening in the book. Flash, Liz Allen, and Jonah will appear, but as far as any villains, no word yet. And I wouldn't be surprised if they don't even have any, maybe Kingpin and the like, but probably no Super-Villains. Just too early in his career. Oh, and the FF might show up. Maybe, I don't know. How about vampires, yeah, you like vampires, right? Yeah so some vampires. Maybe a zombie or two, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Seriously though, if you want to find out some real information about this, head over to the good folks at Newsarama. As always, they got the juicy interviews with both David Lapham, and Tony Harris.


Dan