Daredevil scribe Chip Zdarsky admitted that it was highly unlikely he would ever take up writing duties on The Amazing Spider-Man.
"I guess I shouldn't say 'never,' but I can't picture the scenario where I'd take that job," Zdarsky said in an AMA on Reddit, in response to a fan asking about a potential run on Marvel's premier comic series. "It just seems to be a ludicrous amount of work for a readership that has too many specific ideas of what should happen, and get too angry when their expectations aren't met. Maybe I'd get to a place in my life where I could handle it, but it sure isn't right now."
Another Redditor in the thread joked that Zdarsky's bluntness was the "sound of a thousand fanboys' dreams being crushed." The writer's name frequently comes up in discussions of who might be a good fit for The Amazing Spider-Man, which is currently penned by multiple writers, including Zeb Wells, Cody Ziglar and Kelly Thompson.
While Zdarsky might not touch the mainline Spider-Man book, he has scripted out-of-continuity books starring the webslinger -- notably Spider-Man: Life Story, a 2019 six-issue series which had Peter Parker age in real time and imagined his history throughout the decades, from the '60s onwards. According to Zdarsky, the scope of the series was originally even more ambitious.
"I originally pitched it as the entire Marvel Universe, but the wise editor Tom Brevoort talked me down to focus on Spidey, thank god!" Zdarsky wrote. "It was a lot of work, but a lot of fun."
Along with The Amazing Spider-Man, Zdarsky added that he probably wouldn't touch the X-Men books. While he'd been given "an open door to pitch titles" by X-Men's group editors, Zdarsky said he honestly preferred "to read those books instead of write them."
"I genuinely think I'm too boring of a writer to bring anything new to what they're doing," Zdarsky said. "It's a line of big ideas and I'm kind of a small ideas guy."
Despite calling himself a "small ideas guy," Zdarsky's run on Daredevil since 2019 has transformed the character and seen Matt Murdock incarcerated, Elektra assuming the role of the Devil of Hell's Kitchen and the Kingpin wedding Typhoid Mary. Devil's Reign, a miniseries spinning out of Zdarsky's run, begins on Dec. 1 and will embroil a selection of heroes from across the Marvel Universe.
Source: Reddit