Spectacular Spider-Man #20 - SPOILER ALERT!!

[Kevin Boyd]

Since the organic webbing development was in the last part of an Avengers x-over (that wasn't really a crossover), and Spectacular was not a top seller for Marvel, what it's done is turn a forgettable issue of a dying series into another book for after market speculation as people will (hopefully) buy up what copies are left on the racks and increase demand for December's Spectacular Spider-Man Disassembled tpb.

 

As for Spectacular, it won't really do much for sales, although there will be a contingent of fanboys who will worry about missing the next major development by not buying it.

 

If they were serious of creating brand cohesion (i.e. revising comic book characters to resemble their "revised" movie counterparts) the time to introduce the organic webshooters would have been around the time of the first film, not months after the release of the second. Now it comes across as an afterthought.

 

And he still uses webshooters in Ultimate Spider-Man - where the web formula was a link to Peter's father.

[Ares]

Newsarama.com reports that this will be an ongoing effect that will affect all spidey books.

http://newsarama.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20536

 

 

 

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“I waited until they were all worked up and distracted over Gwen Stacy and Norman Osborn, and then tried to sneak it through the back door...”

And yes, despite the somewhat ‘disconnected’ feel of the Spider-titles, the changes to Spider-Man are not a Spectacular-only change. “These changes will be acknowledged in Amazing Spider-Man and Marvel Knights Spider-Man, but they will not be plot-points,” said Spider-Man group editor Axel Alonso. “They will not drive the story. Any major developments in that arena will be revealed in the remaining issues of Spectacular.”

 

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As for how long the organic shooters will stick around? “It's as permanent as anything is in the wonderful world of comics--which is to say that this wasn't done as a throwaway or as a temporary thing, but was meant as a permanent change,” Brevoort said. “But you never know what may happen down the road. That said, I think the fact that these characters can still grow and evolve and change is one of the highlights of their appeal--especially when we can sucker punch people with a change that they didn't see coming or read about months in advance. Keeps things interesting, y'know?”

 

With all these new powers maybey they are trying to make Spidey a Marvel Heavy hitter!