James Harvey
09-24-2001, 10:58 AM
A bit off-topic, but important nonetheless. The Amazing Spider-Man writer J. Michael Straczynski will be addressing the tragedy of September 11th, 2001 in a future issue of the Spider-Man comic series. <a href="http://www.comicon.com/newsarama">Comic Newsarama</a> quoted Straczynski on how he came to the decision to do a special issue of Amazing Spider-Man:
"I got an email from Marvel, who felt that in at least one of their books they needed to really address the issue of what happened at the WTC. Their feeling was that the one character best suited to this was Spider-Man because after all, he's a native New Yorker.
"So they asked me to write it. Unsure if I had the wherewithal necessary to pull it off without embarrassing myself or trivializing the situation through any inadequacies on my part, I asked for 24 hours to think it over. Figured I'd probably pass, since I just didn't know how I could handle it in a comic book format. Somewhere along the way that night, I found the words...and 24 hours after my mail, I sent in the script."
The issue will appear likely in early 2002.
"I got an email from Marvel, who felt that in at least one of their books they needed to really address the issue of what happened at the WTC. Their feeling was that the one character best suited to this was Spider-Man because after all, he's a native New Yorker.
"So they asked me to write it. Unsure if I had the wherewithal necessary to pull it off without embarrassing myself or trivializing the situation through any inadequacies on my part, I asked for 24 hours to think it over. Figured I'd probably pass, since I just didn't know how I could handle it in a comic book format. Somewhere along the way that night, I found the words...and 24 hours after my mail, I sent in the script."
The issue will appear likely in early 2002.