Did JB consider using the Shaper of Worlds to reboot the Spider-Man books?
JB: Okay — I’m going to slightly bend one of my rules, and spell out for you what Howard and I briefly — o, so briefly! — considered for our Shaper of Worlds “fix” (to reboot the Spider-Man books). In a nutshell, Peter Parker’s life goes completely to hell. Cut his life into the thinnest slices you can, and there will be something very, wrong with every slice. Everything has gone wrong. He finds himself once more on top of the Brooklyn Bridge. This is the point where it all went to hell, he thinks. When Gwen died. Or when Captain Stacey died. Or when Uncle Ben died. Or when that damn spider bit him. There’s no way to pick a point. It’s all just blackness, blackness and more blackness. And He falls from the bridge. Did he slip? Did he jump? We’ll never know. Because the last shot in that issue is him falling like a limp rag wrapped around a rock And next issue he wakes up back in Queens, back in Aunt May’s house, back in high school.
JB: Okay — I’m going to slightly bend one of my rules, and spell out for you what Howard and I briefly — o, so briefly! — considered for our Shaper of Worlds “fix” (to reboot the Spider-Man books). In a nutshell, Peter Parker’s life goes completely to hell. Cut his life into the thinnest slices you can, and there will be something very, wrong with every slice. Everything has gone wrong. He finds himself once more on top of the Brooklyn Bridge. This is the point where it all went to hell, he thinks. When Gwen died. Or when Captain Stacey died. Or when Uncle Ben died. Or when that damn spider bit him. There’s no way to pick a point. It’s all just blackness, blackness and more blackness. And He falls from the bridge. Did he slip? Did he jump? We’ll never know. Because the last shot in that issue is him falling like a limp rag wrapped around a rock And next issue he wakes up back in Queens, back in Aunt May’s house, back in high school. Along with everybody else in his supporting cast,
