Fred Van Lente

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Comic Industry Insiders · Fred Van Lente on Setbacks, Second Chances, and Surviving as a Comic Book Writer · 19 Mar 2026 podcast

So uh

Uh the but then finally, so years and years years and years of this and I I did spy was like on the webheads of Spider Man.

I d I did a lot of fun projects in Marvel and I wouldn't have the career right now if if Marvel typically Mark Peniccia, my editor, hadn't taken a chance on me.

But then uh I was working with Lauren Lauren Sangovich, who's fantastic, who was my editor on Taskmaster, the aforementioned Taskmaster.

That was a big

Critical head.

Uh and they wanted me to relaunch new warriors.

And so they were trying to give me Amineus Cho, who was in the Hercules book and

Speedball and uh Thunder Strike, the not Thor, who's the Thor, and Night Thrasher and like some real heavy hitters.

And

And it's like I never was the guy who'd like, You will give me Fantastic Four or whatever I quit or anything like that 'cause I I'm I was sm I'm I was pretty dumb but I was smart enough to know that's probably and I I have friends who did that and they their asses got damned really quick.

Uh and uh uh you know, know your value.

No, no what their value of you is.

You see that.

Yes, exactly.

I just said n I sa I developed I tried to develop this this new Warriors pitch and eventually I was just like

No you know, no.

I'm just I don't wanna d I mean, it's just like this is thing is gonna come out.

It's going to piss off the new Warriors fans because n name Namorita and Night Thrasher and

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