Spider-Man: Is It Reboot Time Already?

Maybe you haven’t heard yet that Sam Raimi is leaving the Spider-Man franchise, and Sony has taken the opportunity to reboot the whole thing and make a new series. Go ahead and take a moment to mourn or celebrate, depending on which of Raimi’s Spider-Man films is freshest in your memory. We can only pray to the fandom gods that J.K. Simmons is still on board.

If you’re interested in stories and the crafting thereof, Nick Nadel over on AMC’s SciFi Scanner has a great post on the dos and don’ts of rebooting a super-hero franchise.  After all, fans of the printed word and of comics especially have grown accustomed to seeing our interests appropriated, booted, digested, and rebooted by the mainstream culture.  Sometimes we even welcome it.  Now somebody go give the Batman Begins treatment to The Dark is Rising. Please.

(photo via Worth1000)

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

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