“I Don’t Want to Write It”: Marvel’s First Choice to Write Ultimate Spider-Man Explains Why He Refused the Job

Jonathan Hickman’s current reinvention of Spider-Man lore in the relaunched Ultimate Marvel Universe has been one of the year’s most exciting comic book stories but it was almost very different, as the company originally reached out to the equally influential scribe Chip Zdarsky about the project. As he explained in a recent interview, Zdarsky turned Ultimate Spider-Man down, saying, “I don’t want to write it, I want to read this.”

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