June 23, 2010

McFarlane VS Quesada whose better with the character known as the Web head?


I happen to be thinking with the character of Peter Parker and his alter ego Spider-Man the biggest cash cow of Marvel Comics sinking for the past two and half years, something by a fan of the character has to be done to make things and by that I do mean "ALL Things Spider-man RIGHT!" (I have another post about how I want to fix that Said Problem and believe me I think it would work on two fronts see it here in "A Comic story needing to be told"), for now though I want to compare two men who have worked on the Web Wonder known as Spider-Man. One man I have met at a few times in the past at a comic con or two his name is Todd McFarlane. He worked on the art of the AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Vol.1 from issue #298 to 328 with only cover art for issue #324. Todd was wanting to write along with being an illustrator as well or he and six other artist were going to leave Marvel's employment for a chance to do their own stuff. The other six artists were Jim Lee who worked at the time on X-MEN titles with writer Chris Clairmont here is some of his work from back in 1990:
then there was Rob Liefeild (who to me was a copy cat of Todd who work on the then New Mutants & X-Force titles (the NEW Mutants title seen here is the first appearance of the NOW overused comic character DEADPOOL:
) there was also Erik Larsen who was a filler artist on most of Marvel's "BIG NAMED" titles. Erik became most popular by filling in for McFarlane on his Spidey stuff before joining this team of independent creators. That's three so far including McFarlane whom were starting this company and they are they main four of these seven that I know in someway but here is a group shot

of all seven creators that I found in a recent

,which the first cover as you can see was by Toddy as comic fans nicknamed McFarlane, Todd was able to get to please the spider-fans, one last time before leaving Marvel in February of 1992, when Marvel let him actually write, and do the art in his own stories of the non adjective less titled: which sold over one million copies of the issue seen here. Todd wrote two five parters and one two parter before as I said left Marvel's employment in fact here is his last comic cover and story of that series. Todd now does his own created comic character called SPAWN,
which I love just as much as the webhead because it is by McFarlane for McFarlane fans which is great! Now let's bring fourth the main destroyer of Spider-Man and I know that I am NOT the only one who thinks so his name is Joe Quesada. Now before I get going I must admit I have NEVER MET Quesada, yet when Marvel found itself in bankruptcy in late 1996 through 2000 Quesada had helped by bringing in new writers and artists for the floundering comic giant. With his book titled MK which stood for Marvel Knights with fellow comic creator Jim Palmiotti who was his independent partner, when they worked for themselves under the imprint "EVENT COMICS". Which was started in 1994 and ended in 2000 when Marvel contracted them for artists on the aforementioned Marvel Knights comic title, it was in September 2000 that Quesada was appointed Marvel's EIC which stands for Editor in Chief . At first when Quesada became EIC he left much everything as it was for all characters including Spidey. (Which was a good thing considering what happen a whole year later on the eleventh of September), let's now jump seven years ahead in time two great SPIDER-MAN films were made by Sony productions and Marvel itself was gearing up for promoting SPIDER-MAN 3, in the comics with a storyline titled "BACK IN BLACK" which featured the return of Spidey in his Black and White threads ,which were last seen in a HEAVY WAVE back when a fellow called McFarlane drew the comic icon in the late eighties. It was by the way Marvel's NOT SONY'S choice to have the third installment have the Black suit in the movie. Now the worst was yet to come for Spider-Man and it is really Quesada whose to blame for it ALL. He wanted kids to be able to relate to the Wall Crawler again, but felt the couldn't and why was this? it was because the character was "OLD" to relate to so what should they do Quesada DECIDED that there was only one way to make him relate able to children again take away over twenty one years of history and erase this! The character of Spider-Man/Peter Parker had been Married to Mary Jane Watson since June 1987.Which they did with a story titled OMD (One More Day)! Was there a Backlash IF this were to have happen to the comic icon everyman could relate to? Well here is the very answer it is STILL GOING ON TODAY OVER THREE YEARS LATER! Will Spidey or Peter ever regain a strong readership every again? I DON'T KNOW, but I DO know that this
is how McFarlane would have handled the debate over whether Spidey should be a true everyman hero relating to marriage. Giving fans a sense of hope in anything you do, whether your a superhero or not!

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