Interview with Christos N. Gage
SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL Brings Ock-Spidey & Aunt May Closer Together
One of the ickier moments of Peter Parker exploring the memories of Dr. Otto Octavius after being mind-swapped was him "experiencing" Otto's feelings for his own Aunt May, whom he once nearly married.
However, Otto has proven, in Peter Parker's body since Amazing Spider-Man #700 in December 2012, that he is a better - superior - nephew to Aunt May than Peter ever has been. He checks in on her more often, makes sure he's there when he says he will be, and generally just pays more attention to the dear, sweet woman who raised Peter as her own.
That relationship will be played upon much more in the Superior Spider-Man Annual #1, coming November 2013 from the team of writer Christos Gage and aritst Javier Rodriguez (and cover artist J.G. Jones, as seen above). Rodriguez has had experience with Spider-Man in the Amazing days, and Gage has co-written issues of Superior Spider-Man with Dan Slott, so both are well versed with the character, but Gage tells us that there is so much more to explore now that Otto is in the costume. In this first conversation with Gage, he tells us about what makes Superior such a compelling notion, who the dangerous villain in the story is, and why the Otto-Spidey and May relationship is a lot less creepy than it may seem at first.
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