the watcher
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I guess this is as good of place as any to put this since the Clone Saga is where all these characters will appear. I just received my newest issue of Wizard and they had a brief interview with Brian M. Bendis. In the article Bendis talks about his plan for the Clone Saga giving us the five steps he's using for this.
Step 1. Don't Get Carried Away. It took me six issues of Ultimate Spider-Man to tell the story Amazing Fantasy #15 did in, like, 11 pages. In which case, retelling the 52 issues of the original Clone Saga would take me until 2069. But this will be eight issues, #97-104. Our story is radically different. I'll just flat out say it: If people are looking for a retelling of the Cone Saga,' they probably be disappointed. But I don't think there's a lot of people loking for that.
Step 2. Blind'em With Science. I love modern science parables, and cloning certainly is one for us There's a gigantic moral conundrum over it that's in the headlines every single day. So I did some research, figured out what cloning is, why people are cloning, what yo can do wrong with it and what's just about the worst thing you can ever imagine happening to Peter. That's our Clone Saga.
Step 3. Tie It All Together. A lot of secrets of Peter's life will come forward, and people who've hung in there for a long time-people who've read the Carnage arc and saw that Peter Parker blood sample being snuck out, people who saw the blood sample taken from Norman Osborn in the first arc-those people will be rewared for their patience.
Step 4. Know Where You're Going. Before it becomes a punchling, the original Clone Saga was a great idea. The overall theme, the idea of Peter fighting himself, worked. the premise worked, But they really didn't know where they were going. Ihad pieceds of this storyline in mind since the very beginning. I didn't have the clone aspect, but once that locked into the story...there's a lot of things that have been ready to go since before I wrote the fith issue, I'd say. You can't promise people things. You've just got to deliver when it's time. And now it's time.
Step 5. Make It An Ultimate Blowout. Scorpion, Tarantula, Spider-Girl, Spider-Woman-you'll be seeing Ultimate versions of thiese characters for the first time. You'll be seeing someone make their Ultimate appearance that you never thought you'd see. It completely breaks a taboo of all Spider-Man stories that have com before it. I had to talk [Editor] Ralph [Macchio] off the ledge on this one. And you'll be seeing the Fantastic Four, The X-Men and The Ultimates. They'll all make appearances and have active roles in trying to help Peter-or stop Peter-from whatever's going on.
Step 1. Don't Get Carried Away. It took me six issues of Ultimate Spider-Man to tell the story Amazing Fantasy #15 did in, like, 11 pages. In which case, retelling the 52 issues of the original Clone Saga would take me until 2069. But this will be eight issues, #97-104. Our story is radically different. I'll just flat out say it: If people are looking for a retelling of the Cone Saga,' they probably be disappointed. But I don't think there's a lot of people loking for that.
Step 2. Blind'em With Science. I love modern science parables, and cloning certainly is one for us There's a gigantic moral conundrum over it that's in the headlines every single day. So I did some research, figured out what cloning is, why people are cloning, what yo can do wrong with it and what's just about the worst thing you can ever imagine happening to Peter. That's our Clone Saga.
Step 3. Tie It All Together. A lot of secrets of Peter's life will come forward, and people who've hung in there for a long time-people who've read the Carnage arc and saw that Peter Parker blood sample being snuck out, people who saw the blood sample taken from Norman Osborn in the first arc-those people will be rewared for their patience.
Step 4. Know Where You're Going. Before it becomes a punchling, the original Clone Saga was a great idea. The overall theme, the idea of Peter fighting himself, worked. the premise worked, But they really didn't know where they were going. Ihad pieceds of this storyline in mind since the very beginning. I didn't have the clone aspect, but once that locked into the story...there's a lot of things that have been ready to go since before I wrote the fith issue, I'd say. You can't promise people things. You've just got to deliver when it's time. And now it's time.
Step 5. Make It An Ultimate Blowout. Scorpion, Tarantula, Spider-Girl, Spider-Woman-you'll be seeing Ultimate versions of thiese characters for the first time. You'll be seeing someone make their Ultimate appearance that you never thought you'd see. It completely breaks a taboo of all Spider-Man stories that have com before it. I had to talk [Editor] Ralph [Macchio] off the ledge on this one. And you'll be seeing the Fantastic Four, The X-Men and The Ultimates. They'll all make appearances and have active roles in trying to help Peter-or stop Peter-from whatever's going on.
