Spider-Man’s Tangled Web #15

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The Amazing Spider-Man #335

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Daredevil #33

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Way of X #4 - "Heirs and Graces"

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“What if the you who comes back isn’t the you who died?” is one of the most obviously unnerving questions you’d expect to be preoccupying people in a society like Krakoa, and when you’ve got Rockslide and Gorgon both coming back from the grave completely transformed…? Oof. Those worries only get deeper.

Quite what’s going on when this Otherworld stuff happens is something that we’ll collectively get to in due course, but the tabula rasa of it all is where the storyjuice lies, for me. Gorgon’s this monumentally powerful mutant with next-level martial skill and a lot of bad s--t in his past. When you erase the bad s--t but leave everything else, what do you get? Is all forgiven? Will the bad s--t come trickling back with predetermined predictability? What would you expect from a fantastically deadly individual whose most profound experience since he was “born” involves a fuzzy blue dude getting covered in ice cream? These are the big big questions someone needs to answer, dammit.

-- Si Spurrier

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Snelson #1

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"I’ve been writing professionally on the internet since the heyday of blog culture—so, 2006, 2007. And I’ve always had a sick fascination with trolls and the way that people are activated and radicalized by online communities. And in the last fifteen years, as internet culture has moved onto social media, that sickness has only accelerated. Like many Comics Beat readers, I’ve watched comics fans my age and demographic—white, middle-aged men—tip over into racist, sexist, and even fascist ideologies.

Writing is how I figure things out, and so I created Snelson as a thought experiment: What if, like many of my former high school classmates on Facebook, I believed I had peaked in the 1990s? What if my nostalgia for a perfect past that never actually existed caused me to hate the modern world? Once that frame was in mind, Snelson basically popped up, fully formed: A stand-up comedian who almost hit it big in the 1990s but who has spent the last 25 years on the downward slope of fame. Rather than accept his failures and try to grow, Snelson has decided to blame everyone else for his self-sabotage.

It is a huge challenge to write an unlikable lead. Like I said, I wanted to understand how someone becomes an embittered troll—but I absolutely do not want to make trolls sympathetic. Snelson is not the hero of this book, and I have a huge responsibility to ensure that I don’t glamorize him or endorse his beliefs in any way. If a reader were to send me an email saying “Snelson is my hero,” in the way that some misanthropic fans have unironically embraced The Joker or Thanos or Walter White as heroes, I would feel like I failed at my job."

- Paul Constant


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