Many thanks to Comic Book Resources for the following excerpts from their extensive Q&A with Amazing Spider-Man writer, Dan Slott. Make sure to click on the link below to head on over to the site in order to read much, much more about the "Spider-Island" story-line and what we can expect in upcoming issues.
After the opening scene you move to the Mayor's office where you briefly check in with J. Jonah Jameson. Going forward, how big of a role will Jonah have in "Spider-Island?"
You'll see more of Jonah, more of his assistant, Glory Grant, and more of what's going on in the Mayor's command center. Jonah isn't the mayor of New York any more; he's the mayor of Spider-Island! He's going to be very busy throughout this story.
You also check in with both Jonah's father, J. Jonah Jameson, Sr., and his stepmother, May Parker-Jameson. We know May and Jay are moving to Boston, but they're still in New York as of #666. Will they also play a part in "Spider-Island?"
Between you and me and the CBR readers, and no one else, keep this on the QT guys [Laughs], the last thing in the world that I wanted to see was Aunt May swinging around New York with spider-powers. There was NO way that was happening. There are levels of this that can be goofy here and there. But at some point things are going to get brutal, and it's gonna be the Spider-pocalypse. So the idea of Aunt May wall-crawling was a step too far. You think of that issue of Marvel Team-Up where Aunt May got the Power Cosmic and became The Golden Oldie, and three words flash before our eyes: "Assistant Editors' Month!" And that's perfectly fine for something like that. All laws of possibility can go out the window and things can just be silly. But that is NOT "Spider-Island." You're never going to get a scene with Aunt May's spider-sense going off.
Jackal is accompanied by a hulking monstrosity he calls Kaine through most of the issue. Is this the same Kaine that appeared to die at the end of the "Grim Hunt" arc of "Amazing Spider-Man?"
He did not die at the end of "Grim Hunt." Go back to the final issue of that story line and turn to the end. There's a final scene with Kaine crawling out of the grave -- in a new, mutated body. I've read that some people have been confused by the scenes with Kaine. If you go back and look, the Jackal clearly calls the creature that's with him Kaine though. If you want to see HOW the Jackal and Kaine reunited? That's the second story in the DEADLY FOES one-shot. And wait 'til you see who else shows up in that one! Longtime Spidey readers are in for a shock.
We've also have to wonder about the identity of the guy shown floating in an opaque tube in the Jackal's lab...
Don't you just hate that when someone is in a tube and there's mist or liquid in there that makes it cloudy and you can't see who it is? Who designs these tubes anyway? Why can't you just have a CLEAR tube, darn it?! I saw someone online call that character inside "Tubey McGee." That's a great name for this guy. He IS "Tubey McGee!" We should make that canon [Laughs]!
We know that some readers are hoping that the man in the tube is deceased Spider-Man clone, Ben Reilly. We imagine you can't confirm this one way or another, but can you discuss your thoughts on Ben as a character? What do you find interesting about him?
I feel it's a shame to waste any thought on Ben as a character because, well, he dissolved into a pile of goo. So why waste time thinking about goo? I mean HOW COULD THAT GOO POSSIBLY EVER COME BACK? How? It's goo! It's almost like you'd need a Jell-O mold in the shape of Peter Parker to bring him back [Laughs]. Wait a sec... Look, all we know about "Tubey McGee" is that he is a guy. The biggest clue we have about him is what the Jackal says, "He's perfect. Down to the last cell. For all my years of obsessing over Parker's DNA, I have to admit I always dreamed of studying this prime specimen." Hmm... Interesting.
It's also interesting that the Jackal says, "Parker's DNA." Does the Jackal know that Peter and Spider-Man are one in the same? Or was he too affected by the events shown in "One Moment in Time," which wiped Spider-Man's secret identity from the minds of almost everyone on Earth?
"Amazing Spider-Man" #668 will answer that question.
You end the issue with a quick glimpse of a mysterious female mastermind who appears to have some authority over the Jackal. The fact that you're hiding this woman's identity seems significant. Is she a character Spider-Man fans have met before?
Yes.
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