Writer Rick Remender posted another pitch from his archives, this time focused on Marvel's flagship character Spider-Man. Remender notes that he made the pitch in 2009, although it was declined.
The pitch comes from a Spider-Man story titled "Pandora's Box." This arc would have focused on Spider-Man's origin, particularly in regards to the machine that irradiated the spider that bit Peter Parker.
Remender would have introduced a group of men who were injected with DNA from a different insect including a red ant, a parasite worm, a toxic beetle, and a black wasp. After the company behind the experiments was shut down due to downsizing, the men were left in their cells, slowly growing insane. Peter would have discovered them when he created a machine designed to track the specific type of radiation in his blood.
This is not the first time a writer would expand upon Spider-Man's origin; writer J. Michael Straczynski put forth the idea that Peter's powers may have been mystical in nature during his run, and most recently Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos introduced Cindy Moon, aka Silk, who was bitten by the same spider as Peter.
Remender would eventually get a chance to write in the Spider-Man corner of Marvel's universe when he wrote the Venom title in 2011; his run saw Flash Thompson becoming Agent Venom.
Remender currently writes Deadly Class, Seven to Eternity, Low, and Death or Glory for Image Comics.