Spider-Man And His New Amazing Friend
I just got a press release from Marvel Comics that announces what could be the lamest team-up ever that will occur in Amazing Spider-Man #573:
Art from AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #573
From the press release:
Marvel is proud to reveal that Spider-Man and acclaimed television personality Stephen Colbert will join forces in an all new eight-page story featured in the extra-sized Amazing Spider-Man #573! Acclaimed writer Mark Waid and fan favorite artist Patrick Olliffe present Stephen Colbert, a candidate for the US Presidency in the Marvel Universe, teaming up with Marvel’s most iconic crime fighter. What could bring these two together? And what will it mean for both their futures? This issue also features a special Colbert variant by Marvel EiC and industry superstar Joe Quesada!
Don’t miss out on Stephen Colbert’s first full Marvel Universe appearance—in continuity!—and the team up that’ll have everyone buzzing! It’s the extra-sized Amazing Spider-Man #573—and no comic book fan can afford to miss it!
This has 'seriously bad idea' written all over it, creatively. Financially? Marvel can start printing the money now, I figure.
September 25th, 2008 - 00:01
Good God man. That’s all I have to say. There’s promotion, and then there’s selling your soul just to get comics plugged on basic cable.
I love Colbert, but even I think this is too far.
September 29th, 2008 - 14:35
@Brandon: Completely agreed. However, we can hope that this might get a few people who wouldn’t usually go into a comic store to go into one, and pick something up that isn’t a total mess of continuity, thus turning them off to comics forever.
Wait, everything that’s put out by DC or Marvel is stuck in a continuity quagmire… Crap!
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