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Comic book writerDan Slottwears his love forDoctor Whoon his sleeve . Or , rather , his carpus . He travels to shows , he gets photos of himself with masses who have been in the TV serial publication doing " thwipp " gestures , but his sole Marvel contract bridge has meant he has n’t been able-bodied to indite matter of theDoctor Whocomic . Unlike , you know , me .
But that ’s okay ! He writes Silver Surfer and has made that amusing , fundamentally , the same as writing Doctor Who . He told CBRthat Doctor Who had tons of influence on his Surfer comedian
When Tom Brevoort and I first talked about doing the Surfer book , we both approached it from the same slant . We both enunciate , " Would n’t it be neat if you did a soft reboot the same way Russell T Davies did a soft reboot of ' Doctor Who ? ' " ¨All the past continuity stall , but here ’s a nice Modern way to bet at it . The canonic chemical element we wanted to " adopt " — STEAL ! [ Laughs ] was giving the Surfer a human companion ; someone that grounded him , because for the most part . you look at Surfer and he ’s this Shakespearean - spouting guy cable from the top of a bowling trophy . It ’s hard to literally get under his silverish skin . sacrifice him a human companion though , a role who ’s middle - level to the reader , grounds him . As much as this book is about exploring the universe , it ’s also about exploring the Surfer ’s humanity .
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What ’s very authoritative is how well Surfer and his companion Dawn interact . While it ’s impossible to ever be on an equal foothold with a world who exert the Power Cosmic there ’s a clear-cut story of reciprocal respect and realize the two characters have and it ’s clear they love each other ’s caller . The dynamic is also toy for laughs such as Surfer ’s thwarting at the restriction of a human body and Dawn ’s continual defeat at Surfer ’s cold-blooded aspects . With this sort of dynamical there ’s always going to be doubtfulness about why this tremendously potent alien would take to spend their time with a totally normal human being . Doctor Who of late tried to answer this by surrounding cosmic mystery around the woman , handled very well with Amy Pond and treat incomprehensibly with Clara . Silver Surfer does n’t even attempt to plow the interrogative sentence . It lets the natural likability of Dawn verbalize for itself . She ’s here because she ’s charming and witty and canny and can take maintenance of herself in a chip . Oh and because we necessitate someone to explain the plot to .
And Spider - Man ? Well Dan Slotthad a Doctor Who / Spider - Man crossoverblocked on him ..
Speaking at the late Wizard World Philly 2015 event , Slott recounted how he devoted five class to make grow the concept , which would patently have seen proto - Silurians , Sontarans and even ' sonic vane - shooters ' realise on the page as the Doctor and Spidey ’s worlds collided .
Sadly the estimation is , accord to Slott , ' pretty much dead’even though the BBC and theDoctor Whoproduction team were say to be keen . He say it was unspecified ' reasons ' which killed the labor , darn it …
There have been reference , cameo note and nods to the wise towardsDoctor Whoin hisAmazing Spider - Manrun . But reading this week’sAmazing Spider - Man#22 , I noted something more . It ’s not the only time this kind of thing has been done .
But throw Ben Reilly revived from the death as a clone , down , and then revived again and again … .
… did prompt me a little of the episodeHeaven Sent …
Admittedly twenty - three versus many gazillion is n’t that comparable … but still .
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