Defenders #4 - "Fourth Cosmos: The Lovers"

[laughing_tree]

I say I have no desire to write individual Marvel characters, but that sort of falls by the wayside when you talk about one aspect of Marvel from the 70s, which is the idea that all of these concepts are these huge giant-sized humanoid beings that hang around and gab at each other, essentially. That's catnip to me. -- Al Ewing

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Devil’s Reign: Superior Four #1

[cyberghostface]

“I think about Dan Slott and Ryan Stegman's Superior Spider-Man all the time. It's legitimately one of the most brilliant ideas ever hatched in the House of Ideas. I have a real emotional attachment to that book and that era because I was reading it monthly while it was coming out. It felt thrilling and unpredictable.

As a long-time Ock fan, I was reeling month to month while waiting for the next chapter. In preparation for this title, I revisited the entire run. Looking at the ways Slott sketched Otto's character and trying to frame this series less as a recreation of Otto's journey throughout Superior Spider-Man and more of a response.

I know that's vague. But it's the best way to talk about it right now. Otto's time as Superior Spider-Man is massive, emotional, and genuinely pushed Ock's character forward in ways that we'll be unpacking for years. I see it as my duty not to recreate that era but to find a way to go beyond it, to push Otto into asking new questions about his existence and role within the Marvel Universe.” — Zac Thompson

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Amazing Spider-Man #85

[cyberghostface]

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Eternals #8 - "Hail Thanos, Part 2"

[laughing_tree]

On the meta side, people are less interested in death when it comes to Super Heroes now. What [Jonathan] Hickman did with the X-Men was just to take [death] off the table. My idea with the Eternals is flipping that a bit. They’re characters who are afraid to die because they are heroes. They don’t want that to be on their conscience. In the case of Ikaris, now he knows because Toby died, but how many other humans have died for him? Now they have the proper Marvel Universe guilt and shame and regret. That’s what I wanted to give them and that’s where we are. Ikaris has a line where he’s like, “How can I fight like I don’t care if I live or die?” He hasn’t cared about being punched in the face for hundreds of years. -- Kieron Gillen

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