Not only has this guy been writing and drawing a monthly title since 1992 (His creator owned Savage Dragon); He is also the head honcho of Image comics, takes on side projects with other companies and has never had a late book come out(with the exception of his six month leave). Larsen is still the man...I've been a huge fan of his since his days on Amazing and the Hulk. But reading this from his One Fans Opinion just cracks me the hell up.
How many times are you guys going to fall for the whole "Spider-Man's getting a new costume that sucks and it's going to replace the old one that rocks" trick? Marvel has been pulling this one off for decades now and every time you guys take the bait-- every time.
This is not going to replace the old costume for the long haul. You will not see this costume on Spider-Man in 10, 20, 30 years-- by then he'll be wearing some other shitty costume and you'll be moaning about that.
Since I am just on a roll of good news. As of issue seven Daniel Knuaf of Carnivale, a damn great show that ended way too early, and Patrick Zircher (Cable and Deadpool) will be the new creative team on Iron man. You know what that means, don't you? We are back to monthly Iron Man adventures. After the hell that Ellis and Granov put us through there is a light at the end of that dark tunnel. I hate to see Zircher leave Cable and Deadpool, my favorite Marvel title, but this book needed some serious help. So enjoy this little piece of artwork teaser from Iron Man issue seven, just enough to get me pumped up.
Can someone please tell me; how the hell Kevin Smith is the #2 hot writer on Wizard's top ten writers list? How can a guy that took a total of four years to wrap up a six issue mini series be considered a hot writer. Who the fuck votes on these things? Kevin Smith and View Askew fan boys? We covered a bit of this in our last podcast; about fans that still support creators like this. I found myself guilty by supporting Whedon on Astonishing X-men, but to be fair the case there was a bit different. Whedon was working on Serenity the comics, wrapping up the movie, overseeing the Angel comics and of course working on AXM. Smith was just working on Spiderman/Black Cat and Jersey Girl.
Could there be something else to this story though? I did something I hadn't done in a while this weekend I went to his blog where he claims he hasn't been paid for any of the Spiderman and Blackcat: The Evil That Men Do books. Now I could understand if in the middle of writing issue 3 he found out Marvel pulled a Pat Lee on his tubby ass, but in his own words he found out a few days ago. I've been a fan of his movies for years, but how is this acceptable? Ahh the beauty of working in comics; I wish I could tell my boss its going to take me three years to finish a small project.
