Acclaimed Amazing Spider-Man and Mighty Avengers scribe Dan Slott is in the hot seat this week on MySpace Comic Books (www.myspace.com/comicbooks) as he takes over MyCup o’ Joe for something we call MyCup o’ Slott! What does he have planned for the all-new, all-different team of Avengers led by Hank Pym? What will happen when the Human Torch and Spider-Man collide? And just what does Dan think about continuity? Find out the answers to these questions, and all your fan questions, as Dan sits down with journalist Jim McLauchlin! Plus, exclusive art from Exiles, Mighty Avengers, Dark Avengers, Avengers: The Initiative and more!
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DS: Yeah. If you’re doing a book in the Marvel Universe, everything you’re doing is built on continuity. You’re standing on the shoulders of Lee, Ditko, Kirby, Romita, Thomas, Mantlo, Frenz, and Stern, everybody up till now
And in this day and age, especially in the era of a Wikipedia or Marvel’s Digital Comics Unlimited, it’s easy to just take five minutes and do a quick check, and try to get your stuff right. You don’t have to have an encyclopedic knowledge of comics. The tools are there. Just do a quick check. And the continuity can be an asset to your story; it doesn’t have to be an obstacle. It’s not a lead weight around your neck, it’s a building block.
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