![]() Because everyone who wants to write comic books, probably wants to write within the Spider-Verse, right? That's like the golden ticket. When I first set out to flesh out the short pitch that I'd sent Marvel for my miniseries - which was ages and ages ago now - I had to think a lot about what I wanted to do. He's just having loads of fun being Spider-Man, and that's so cool. So when I saw the film, I was like, "I love this guy." I love this guy that they've portrayed, and within the context of the movie and within the realm of the movie, he's the happy-go-lucky Spider-Man. They can be different people in different circumstances. There's different facets of those characters. ![]() There is so much room for those different interpretations. There've been so many different takes of Miles, and there've been so many different takes of all of our favorite characters. We've seen so many different facets of Peter over the 60 plus years that he has been in the comic books. But the good thing is, I think there's room for more than one take on the same character. I thought the movie was awesome, and that clip of Pav had been circulating for a month or so before the movie came out, and it is a very different take from what I'm trying to do. Do you feel like that adds any sort of pressure, now that fans have a much stronger attachment to the character? Kind of going off of that, Pav is now a household name for a lot of people, thanks to Spider-Verse. So I've kind of just stayed away from the reaction a little bit. For me as an artist, the best thing I can do is tell the story that I set out to tell, if that makes sense. They're for readers to gauge what things are. I think I've just learnt the hard way that reviews are not for me, therefore they're for the readers. So I kind of wanted to not be swayed by what people might be thinking, especially now that Issue #1 and #2 are out in the world, and Across the Spider-Verse is out in the world.Īlso, having been a novelist for a long time, and also a writer who has written a lot about race and immigration, which is quite contentious and it attracts a certain kind of audience. The first issue came out, and I was still working on on the script for Issue #5. And I know how passionate people are about the Spider-Verse, and also Pav not having had that many stories sort of dedicated to him out there. ![]() Nikesh Shukla: I'm going to be honest, I haven't checked too much the reaction, because I am a fan too and I'm a reader too. (Photo: Roberto Ricciuti/Getty Images, Marvel Comics)Ĭ: What has it been like to see the reaction to the series thus far? We spoke about Spider-Man: India's reinventions of iconic villains, Pav's obsession with food, and what other Marvel characters he would like to take a crack at. In celebration of the publication of Spider-Man: India #2, sat with Shukla to talk about his reverential approach to the newest chapter of Pav's life. ![]() While Spider-Man: India is Shulka's comic debut, he enters the medium with a pretty formidable bibliography, including The Good Immigrant, The Boxer, and Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home. The new Spider-Man: India miniseries is brought to life by writer Nikesh Shukla and artist Abhishek Malsuni. ![]() 2023 has also brought the launch of a new Spider-Man: India comic series, the first for Pav since he first made his comic debut in 2004. Pavitr Prabhakar / Spider-Man: India has become one of this year's breakout characters, with the recent hit animated movie Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse introducing him to a whole new generation. ![]()
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