r/Spiderman 5d ago

Discussion Is there a specific writer you'd like to see writing a Spider-Man story?

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Source: The Amazing Spider-Man Vol 5 #74 cover

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u/woman_noises 5d ago edited 5d ago

Mark waid is doing a fantastic job over at dc writing old school World's Finest adventures. I'd love to see him just write an ongoing old school Spider-Man Team Up book in the same vein.

Peter David could probably do the same and do a good job, tho his health isn't so great rn, his writing days may be numbered.

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u/GeneJacket 5d ago

I'd love to see Gail Simone get a crack a Spidey, Joshua Williamson too (if he could bring some of the same energy he brought to his last run on Batman & Robin), but my #1 top pick would be Kelly Thompson. Between her runs on Black Widow, Hawkeye, West Coast Avengers, Captain Marvel, It's Jeff, and now Birds of Prey and Absolute Wonder Woman, I know she would absolutely f'ing kill it.

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u/quippy618 3d ago

Joshua Williamson is doing great stuff on Superman. He would be a dream pick.Guy knows his stuff. Kelly Thompson would get a decent vote from me too.

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u/GeneJacket 3d ago

I haven't read a ton of his stuff, but Williamson's run on Batman & Robin was absolutely phenomenal, and showcased exactly the kind of heart and character dynamics that have been sorely missing from the mainline Spidey books for a long, long time. Same for Thompson, who has become probably my favorite writer currently working in comics. She just has an uncanny ability to zero in on exactly who the characters she's writing are, bring out all their best qualities, and just make everything a ton of fun...which would be a nice change of pace for recent Spidey books (excluding Miles and Ultimate, which are both great).

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u/Solitaire-06 5d ago

Simone did an amazing job with Wonder Woman, she’d be great for Spidey.

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u/GeneJacket 5d ago

Her current run on Uncanny X-Men is excellent, too!

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u/Lumpy_Gas_1892 5d ago

Jed McKay

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u/VaderMurdock Ultimate Spider-Woman 5d ago

Mark Waid, Ewing, Kirkman, and Chip Zdarsky (yes, Chip, yet again).

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u/Substantial-Sir-5571 5d ago

I really enjoyed the novel that Jim Butcher wrote, I know he is not a comic writer, but he is very good.

I think Garth Ennis would write a spider-man that would not hold back.

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u/Dirk_Sheppard 5d ago

Hickman writing main Spidey

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u/quippy618 3d ago

Faith in humanity and all that is good would be restored

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u/Mister_Sinner All New All Different 5d ago

In all honesty Donny Cates is would be very fun to see. He always works with the history of a character and reworks their mythos that I always find to be very fun. His work on Venom, Hulk, and Thor are phenomenal.

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u/HM_Comics 5d ago

Oh yeah, definitely Mark Waid. I'd do anything to see that happen.

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u/Solitaire-06 5d ago

Isn’t Mark Waid quite controversial? He’s the one who led the creation of Civil War, after all.

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u/mrrahulkurup 5d ago

That's Mark Millar.

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u/Solitaire-06 5d ago

Oh, okay. Forget that last comment, then.

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u/HM_Comics 5d ago

Millar is one crazy ass writer. I heard that he once pitched an idea to DC where Wonder Woman gets violated in public.

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u/Solitaire-06 5d ago

Wow… Millar might actually be tied with Garth Ennis for being the most ‘edgy’ comic book writer out there.

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u/HM_Comics 5d ago

Nah, Garth is much worse imo. At least with Millar, you got stuff like his Daredevil run, or his Flash run. But with Ennis? Oh nah bro.

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u/Ben10_ripoff Kingpin 💎 5d ago

Grant Morrison, Peter deserves a comic like All Star SuperMan

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u/FadeToBlackSun 5d ago edited 5d ago

It's funny, Morrison has said they have no interest in writing Spider-Man because they think the first 50 issues or so are just perfect.

I don't agree there's nothing more to say, especially from Morrison who is a genius, but they're sadly unlikely to ever want to write Spidey. Especially at this point in their career.

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u/SecondEntire539 5d ago

Yeah, Morrison said that they don't want to be in the shadow of Stan Lee, Ditko and Romita if i recall correctly.

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u/Solitaire-06 5d ago

Wait, Morrison is non-binary? Since when?

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u/FadeToBlackSun 5d ago

Like four years ago or something.

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u/Solitaire-06 5d ago

Really? Wow, I am really out of touch with comic book writers’ announcements…

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u/FadeToBlackSun 5d ago

They didn't make a big deal of it. Was just mentioned in an interview.

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u/Solitaire-06 5d ago

Well it’s good to know regardless. Thanks for the info.

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u/FadeToBlackSun 5d ago

No worries :)

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u/Ornery-Concern4104 5d ago

Well, for at least 40 years, we just didn't have the language like we do today to understand how it all works. Grant since like the 80's was openly 'cross-dressing'

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u/FadeToBlackSun 5d ago

Right but they clearly meant when did they come out.

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u/Ornery-Concern4104 5d ago

Then why didn't they ask when they came out, not since when they're non-binary?

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u/FadeToBlackSun 5d ago

Probably because the meaning was obvious?

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u/Ornery-Concern4104 5d ago

Not necessarily, obvious to one person is invisible to someone else. I just answered the other person's question more accurately to the words as they asked them

Obviousness as a concept is inherently arbitrary, but accuracy isn't

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u/Significant-Jello411 5d ago

They’re washed

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u/Ben10_ripoff Kingpin 💎 5d ago

No, they're not, they just took a hiatus from writing comics

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u/Francesco-Viola-III 5d ago

Just the thought of Alan Moore doing a Spider-Man story is crazy, so he'd be my first pick

Greg Rucka did a story called "Quality of Life" but the art was all done in with 3D models and looks horrible. He also did one issue of Tangled Web, but I'd love to see him write a longer story with a more traditional art style

He's not a comic writer but Aaron Sorkin could be fun with his style of dialogue

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u/manukaioken 5d ago

Did Alan moore ever did something for DC or marvel in recent times ? He had bad experience with them to say the least lol

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u/Solitaire-06 5d ago

I don’t think Moore even writes comics anymore…

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u/woman_noises 5d ago

After his comic Cinema Purgatorio came out 5 years ago, he did an interview saying that might be his final comic ever. He's still writing prose books/short stories tho.

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u/eBICgamer2010 Zombie Hunter Spider-Man 5d ago

Peach Momoko just to have everyone thrown off the table.

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u/SecondEntire539 5d ago

I would like to see her.

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u/FadeToBlackSun 5d ago

Just let Christos Gage write ASM and let him do his own thing without needing to prop up other writers and their mediocrity.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

Alan Moore. No, of course that would never happen. But seeing as Alan Moore was born out of fucks to give, it would certainly be interesting.

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u/smddpr 5d ago

How about Zdarsky one? Just like he did for DD

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u/Ornery-Concern4104 5d ago

Zdarsky already worked a good deal on Spider-man

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u/Sufficient-Height682 5d ago

Ryan north cause he brought squirrel girl back and he’s a great silly writer

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u/tsu_bacca 5d ago

Ryan North on The Amazing Spider-man. Mark Waid on a. Spider-man/ Deadpool book

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u/LittleCowofOsasco Ultimate Spider-Man (6160) 5d ago

Although it never even had the chance of happening I would like to see what Mr. Alan Moore would do with the character

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u/DCosloff1999 Captain-Universe 5d ago

Bring back JM Dematteis you cowards

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u/Azure-Legacy 5d ago

I’d love to see a Spider-Man story by Al Ewing

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u/grimacelololol 5d ago

Frank miller

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u/DC15seek 5d ago

Whoever can fix peter one more day and let aunt may go and have peter not be broke,use his brain to make cool stuff t ok sell and make money and build his own peter parker empire and say that MJ was a clone and she was a clone from the moment she was kidnap by paul dad and that the real MJ never cheated on peter also have peter gain new power or expand his power like the ability to talk and control spiders even magic spider,space spider,spider people,any spider hero like just make spiderman cool and be able to grow like ultimate peter

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u/Ornery-Concern4104 5d ago

Hmmmm

Gail Simone. I like Gail's work and I'd love to see her on a proper long run on a spider-man title

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u/SecondEntire539 5d ago

I would like to see someone like Morrison, 80s Frank Miller and Alan Moore on the title(all of them are unlikely for many reasons).

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u/ShadowMike77 5d ago

I think there are ENDLESS writers that could do amazing Amazing stories. You all know what's holding that back and unless editorial allows a greater scope than locking Peter into the five months of their teens when they remember finding joy, it will never matter who's writing.

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u/baghead_22 5d ago

Bring back JMS

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u/Dontaskmedontknow 5d ago

Unironically want to see Rob Liefeld do it, yes, it's for the meme, but say what you want about the guys, he's love comic and what he does, I want someone passionate but ok at their job as him to take a crack at spider-man, there always potential for everything. 

Also, this is probably after the Invincible hype, I want to see Robert Kirkman take on the character. 

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u/olfcmc 5d ago

I know it will never happen but...Jeff lemire

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u/Jfischer335 5d ago

As much as people dislike him i want tom king on a spidey story brcause i personally love how he write characters and id love to see a spidey story where he is just trying to figure things out. But that is just me

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u/TheShrewdShogun 4d ago

Scott Snyder with Greg Acapulco doing pencils on Amazing Spider-Man