Dan Gvozden, co-host of Superior Spider-Talk and a super-friend to Chasing Amazing, has yet another interview to share from last weekend’s Baltimore Comic Con. In Episode 15 of Superior Spider-Talk (a special Superior Spider-Talk and Our Amazing Friends episode), Dan speaks with Paul Jenkins, a writer best known for his run on Peter Parker: Spider-Man in the early/mid-2000s. Download the podcast on our iTunes page or through our PodOmatic site.
In this episode:
- Paul discusses why he is a writer
- What does he think is important about writing Peter Parker and how he approaches the character
- Gives us a college lecture on writing
- Talks about breaking into the industry through Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- His personal relationship with the Peter Parker character
- Working under a deadline and how that inspires him
- What he thinks makes his run special
- Discusses several fan-favorite issues from his run
- Writing in the late 90’s and reviving Spider-Man
- What makes a death permanent in comics
- Why he thinks the Spider-Man marriage should have worked
- The importance of humor in his Spider-Man comics
- The worst character ever created in Spider-Man, Typeface
- Norman Osborn’s suicide
- Working with Mark Buckingham and Humberto Ramos
- Why mainstream comics are failing their audiences
- What does it mean to him to have been a Spider-Man writer
A special thanks again to Paul Jenkins for being amazingly generous with his time, and of course Chasing Amazing thanks Dan for being a superstar in Baltimore this past weekend. Make sure you download Dan’s interview with artist Ron Frenz from Baltimore Comic Con.
