"Spider-Man" comic book fans were fuming with the creative time for allowing the evil Dr. Otto "Octopus" Octavius to get his hands on Peter Parker and "switch" brains with the Marvel superhero in 2012.
Since then, Doc Ock has been parading around as Spider-Man and fans believed Parker was dead. However, "Amazing Spider-Man" writer Dan Slott recently revealed to CNN Parker is "alive" and back in his body. Slott explained why the writers decided to go forward with the controversial story line.
"With 'Superior Spider-Man,' we took Peter away from everybody for a year. And we showed you how having someone who should never be Spider-Man be Spider-Man, how much you'd miss Peter Parker. And now he's back! Just in time for the movie. It's almost like we planned it," Slott told CNN.
"Originally, when we were planning out Superior Spider-Man, editorial was like 'This is a six-issue arc,' and we said 'No, we can go longer than that,'" he added. "Then it was 'OK a year,' and then we said, 'You know if we go a little further, we can make it to the movie!' It was a lot of faith from Marvel editorial, and I'm grateful they let me try it."
Though Parker is back from the dead, don't expect the superhero to be the same "mopey" guy he was in previous comics, according Slott. Parker has left the negativity behind him and rises above the challenges he is faced with, including dealing with the new life Doc Ock has stuck him with.
"It's very much the old Chinese curse of 'May you live in interesting times.'Peter Parker is coming back to interesting times," Slott told CNN. "Doc Ock broke it off with Mary Jane. Mary Jane is now dating this fireman. Also, Doc Ock was dating this scientist, Annamaria. She moved in with him. And suddenly Peter Parker wakes up to that! What does he do? We also learn that there was another person bitten by a spider at the same time as Peter. We never knew this all this time, and now this mysterious person is gonna show up."
