Warning: Minor SPOILERS for Amazing Spider-Man #40
For those who may have missed the latest Spider-Man twist, we’re pleased to report that after years of effectively inventing click-bait for the Daily Bugle, J. Jonah Jameson has moved on to the modern era of web reporting. Jonah’s newest career change has led him to become the Marvel podcaster fans deserve, scoring his first big interview with Spider-Man himself. The result is a podcast launch so powerful, one of the biggest podcasters in the world takes notice – Marc Maron himself.
WTF with Marc Maron is a podcast that started in 2009, with more than 1,100 episodes recorded to date. After rising to become one of the most popular podcasters in the industry (according to NY Times), Maron translated that success into interviews with comedians, actors, directors, writers, authors, musicians, and even landed a coveted interview with President Barack Obama. But where will those rank next to his latest achievement, now that he has seemingly been inducted in Marvel’s version of our world?
When the episode of Jameson’s podcast, titled “My Interview with Spider-Man” hits the Internet, people start listening. Like, really listening. It turns into a huge hit, skyrocketing to the top of the podcast charts. In terms of popularity, his lengthy career and superheroic secrecy have made Spider-Man a known quantity… but the interview gave fans a glimpse of the fireworks Peter and Jonah tend to bring out in each other. Which means nobody is more surprised than Spider-Man at the success of the podcast. Nobody except Marc Maron.
In a blink and you miss it frame, an unnamed man with a strikingly similar appearance to Maron in a podcast booth is shocked: “Really? That guy?” The surprise is understandable, given how the rest of the world had seemed to move on from Jameson’s brand of news and headlines. But it leaves readers to wonder: is the Marc Maron of the Marvel Universe shocked that a podcast newcomer personality like J. Jonah Jameson is capable of surpassing him on the podcast charts? Or is he shocked that J.J. was the one to land a coveted interview with the one and only Spider-Man, while he couldn’t?
Either way, the thought of a version of a great interviewer like Marc Maron existing in the Marvel Universe leaves more questions. In a universe with superheroes, would Maron book interviews with heroes over actors? Would he venture further, and throw caution to the wind by interviewing the villains, as well? We’ll let the fans suggest their own dream episodes now that they’ve just become a lot more plausible in the Marvel Universe?
Amazing Spider-Man #40 is available now at your local comic book shop, or direct from Marvel Comics. Listen to Marc Maron’s podcast here!
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