After 10 years and 189 issues, acclaimed writer, Dan Slott will move from the adventures of Peter Parker to Tony Stark. The end of an era is here, as Don Slott will be ending his epic run on The Amazing Spiderman with #801, and preparing to begin guiding the next chapter of Tony Stark’s life in the pages of Invincible Iron Man.
Stuart Immonen art for The Amazing Spiderman #797
Stuart Immonen art for The Amazing Spiderman #797
As for his new gig on Invincible Iron Man, Slott tells said, “I’m all excited. They’d asked me to do Iron Man a while back, but by then I was at [Silver] Surfer and I had Spidey and I was already overcommitted, so it kept gnawing at me. Like, ‘Oh, man. I really do want to do Iron Man. This would be fun.’ And when that came around again, it was like, ‘Okay, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I want Iron Man. I want this. I want this really bad.’”
Stuart Immonen art for The Amazing Spiderman #797
Regarding his thoughts on Tony Stark, Slott explained, “Reed Richards explores the universe. He wants to know everything and go everywhere. Tony Stark builds the future. It’s not that he’s not out to discover the next big thing. But he’s gonna take his own two hands and he’s gonna build where he wants to go, or what he wants to do. He looks at a challenge and goes, ‘How do I machine my way out of this?’”
Stuart Immonen art for The Amazing Spiderman #797
Stuart Immonen art for The Amazing Spiderman #797
Slott promises, “There will be a very unique cast in this book of characters: Iron Man characters you love and Marvel characters that you haven’t seen folded into the Iron Man cast.”
While it will be difficult seeing Dan Slott leave Peter Parker after so many years, it may allow someone with some fresh ideas to take our friendly web-slinger in a new direction, and it sure sounds like we can expect interesting things from Slott’s new take on Tony Stark as he takes over Invincible Iron Man!