How long do you expect Dan Slott to be the lead/ sole writer of Amazing Spider-Man?

[Schmed]

Dan Slott = Chuck Austen.

They know they've made a mistake, we know they've made a mistake, and sales are in freefall... but they're somewhat committed to the big lie, the notion that things are going well.

For a while, at least. Austen was shuffled out the door at the first decent interval, I expect that what we'll see here.

Within a year.

So this is what Whiteshark sounds like in Bizarro land....

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Well, typically, the average time a comic book writer spends on a series is usually about 2-3 years. And that sounds about right to me (meaning I'd have to vote for 3-4 years). I imagine that, at the very least, Dan Slott would like to be on Amazing Spider-Man until at least issue #700, which, including #648, is a good 52 issues under the current schedule. Unless something happens that makes Marvel have to change the writer and the format yet again during that time, especially as the date for the Spider-Man reboot movie and Spider-Man's 50th Anniversary gets closer.

Thats what I voted , 3 to 4 years...many writers don't stay on books on such a long term anymore. Geoff Johns seems to be exception (5 years on Green Lantern).

[SUPERECWFAN1]

Dan Slott = Chuck Austen.

They know they've made a mistake, we know they've made a mistake, and sales are in freefall... but they're somewhat committed to the big lie, the notion that things are going well.

For a while, at least. Austen was shuffled out the door at the first decent interval, I expect that what we'll see here.

Within a year.

Well even Austen got 3/4 years on Uncanny X-Men and X-Men. Til he got black balled.

[RDMacQ]

I don't know. Four years. Maybe five. Kind of depends on a lot of things.

[CloneSaga]

I think if the title of this thread were "How Long Do You WANT Slott to be the Sole Writer" we'd have some very different responses. (On both sides! )

Then 3-4 years would not have been chosen at all

[sirvk]

I agree all the way around. I think if the title of this thread were "How Long Do You WANT Slott to be the Sole Writer" we'd have some very different responses. (On both sides! )

I would've voted the same. I like Slott, but I like to see the creative teams changed up a lot. Maybe two titles and he could stay a bit longer on the second title.

[dreyga2000]

Thats what I voted , 3 to 4 years...many writers don't stay on books on such a long term anymore. Geoff Johns seems to be exception (5 years on Green Lantern).

Bendis (USM 10 Years, Avengers 6 Years....) Just saying...

[Dan_Slott]

It is jus a paycheck for Slott anyway. He's not a real fan.

As a guy who turned down a side job this year for a paycheck that would've been over a third of his yearly income-- BECAUSE it would've meant cutting back on his not-so-lucrative comic book writing career-- and get in the way of working on his Spider-Man dream job...

...and the guy who slept less than 12 hours over the course of 4 days this week working on a script while he was sick... a guy who finally had to be ORDERED off it by his editor to go see a doctor... and is still in a good deal of pain today...

...this is the first time I think I've ever said this to somebody over a comic book message board:

Go fuck yourself.

Seriously.

Go. Fuck. Yourself.

[djsweet]

because Dan just told someone to Fu ck off, am i allowed to make a Hobbit joke about the lucrative job he turned down?

[RyanParkerMan]

It is jus a paycheck for Slott anyway. He's not a real fan. A real fan would never work for a company that betrays fans that way.

Now I usually don't stick up for creators because i don't want to seem like a kiss ass but you are just plain wrong buddy. And this is coming from a guy that felt let down by OMD.
If you took the time to listen to any Dan Slott's interviews anywhere, either audio, video, or print, you'd be able to tell immediately that he is a giant Spider-Man fan. He knows the history of ASM as well as any other scribe out there.

A few years from now he'll be working in some other medium and telling people how he was there for the dying days of the comic book. He'll proud of it claiming he gave it a viking death. He'll be laughing at all of us who ever cared for a drawn character owned by a huge corporation that we couldn't influence.

He has said elsewhere that he has turned down other work to work on Spider-Man.You'd know this is you took the time to read, listen, or watch his videos.
Listen man, i hate one more day just as much as the next guy but Dan Slott didn't write one more day. He actually wrote a married and very pissed off Spider-Man in Avengers: Initiative in which he set up a parachute for the unmasking. He's writing the character in a status quo that didn't pick. He endorses it and i guess that's your problem with him.

The fact of the matter is i think Dan would gladly write ASM with a married or nonmarried Peter Parker.

"Simps," he'll call us. Then he will go back to scripting whatever reality show has hired him to be a staff writer and go home to his supermodel wife and have amazing multipositioned sex. And he'll get letters from his kids in Ivy League schools and he'll brag about how he dragged the last few dollars out of SPider-man before he become just another guy in costume a disneyworld.

I cannot even argue this. What's gotten into you? Your busting the man's balls for what reason? Comicbooks don't pay all that well. He's just trying to make a living.
Geez...
Why not go after Steve Wacker instead?
(Just kidding Steve...not really...)

Yes I am laying it on heavy.

You are kind of being an A-hole. I think your frustration lay elsewhere.

[RyanParkerMan]

Wow, holy shit. I didn't see Dan's post when i wrote mine.

Wow...

So forget that post and i'll just make a new post that says...

[Dan_Slott]

because Dan just told someone to Fu ck off, am i allowed to make a Hobbit joke about the lucrative job he turned down?

Sure. Go for it. :)

*Shutting off computer. Sipping soup in bed. Going back to sleep.*

[RyanParkerMan]

Or what Dan said.

[Ramage]

As a guy who turned down a side job this year for a paycheck that would've been over a third of his yearly income-- BECAUSE it would've meant cutting back on his not-so-lucrative comic book writing career-- and get in the way of working on his Spider-Man dream job...

...and the guy who slept less than 12 hours over the course of 4 days this week working on a script while he was sick... a guy who finally had to be ORDERED off it by his editor to go see a doctor... and is still in a good deal of pain today...

...this is the first time I think I've ever said this to somebody over a comic book message board:

Go fuck yourself.

Seriously.

Go. Fuck. Yourself.

If only it were anatomically possible.

Jesus Dan, did you read the whole thing? It was so over the top what with the supermodels and ivy league schools and the mustache twirling, I thought it was obvious that I was doing schtick.

Well let me do something I never do on an internet message board either:

I am sincerely sorry if I offended you. I come here to have fun and get some information and sometimes give some feedback. I am relatively new here. I don't know you personally and or anything about you too much. I saw that you and Wacker are vocal defenders of the One More Day revision and I have an honest dislike of that revision. So I just went off from that.

I don't come here to get people mad at me and don't consider it a badge of honor to get told eff you by a comic book creator.

I sincerely apologize. And wish you well. Hope you are on the magazine as long as you want to be.

(I still wish you'd bring back the marriage and answer the deal with the devil problem)

[RDMacQ]

If only it were anatomically possible.

Jesus Dan, did you read the whole thing? It was so over the top what with the supermodels and ivy league schools and the mustache twirling, I thought it was obvious that I was doing schtick.

Well let me do something I never do on an internet message board either:

I am sincerely sorry if I offended you. I come here to have fun and get some information and sometimes give some feedback. I am relatively new here. I don't know you personally and or anything about you too much. I saw that you and Wacker are vocal defenders of the One More Day revision and I have an honest dislike of that revision. So I just went off from that.

I don't come here to get people mad at me and don't consider it a badge of honor to get told eff you by a comic book creator.

I sincerely apologize. And wish you well. Hope you are on the magazine as long as you want to be.

(I still wish you'd bring back the marriage and answer the deal with the devil problem)

If you wanted Dan to be sympathetic to that request, you might have wanted to reconsider your opening joke.....