>>98186345I’m not that selfish. I think you do have to, every now and then, refresh and restart. Every now and then, you do have to go back to ground, because every generation deserves to have Spider-Man with them. He’s one of the greatest characters of all time, of all of fiction. If some 8-year-old kid is growing up now, he deserves to have Spider-Man go on the journey with him. It feels kinda selfish to go, “No, Spider-Man should age just with my era, and he should track with me, and he should go through these moments with me. And then he should grow old and then he should die.” No, it’s important that everyone has a shot to have Spider-Man be their Spider-Man.
>So, we can’t get into much detail I would imagine, but what’s next? Oh, we’re jumping all the way to end, eh?
>Well, no, we can come back to Spider-Man.Good. I’m gonna feel like a dick if I don’t go, “Thank you, Steve Wacker. Thank you, [editor] Nick Lowe. Thank you, all these writers and artists.” Can we save the “what’s next” until the very end?
>All right, all right. Do you have a particular favorite Spidey story among the ones you’ve written?Ooh, that’s horrible because you’re supposed to go, “I love all my brothers and sisters equally. I love all my children.” But, yeah, of course, you’re gonna have favorites. I really love the story line, “No One Dies,” with Marcos Martín because we touched on so much Spider-Man history and put it into this cohesive story about how Spider-Man feels about every time he fails to save someone. The artwork on that was so gorgeous. And working on that two-parter was just such a highlight that while we were working on it, I made Marcos Martín make me a promise that he would come back and do my last story when it was time to end. And that was many years ago, because I already knew what my last issue was and I ran the story by him even back then and he was like, “Okay, I will come back for that. If I leave, I will come back for that.” And that’s 801.
