Humberto Ramos discusses the pressure of creating Silk

Silk’s appearance in the Amazing Spider-Man comics has been eagerly anticipated since people found out that there was a plan to include a second Spider-bite victim. It’s clear that she’s an important and fairly major character going forward and the people behind her inception, creation and realisation are Dan Slott and artist Humberto Ramos.

Ramos recently sat down for an episode of Comic Book Resources Television and gave quite an in depth interview. One of the things he discussed was the pressure of creating a new important game-changing character like Silk, who is sure to cause a stir amongst the Spidey comic book fans that could have taken her introduction badly (so far her reception seems to be fairly warm and well-received.)

"“It is a big character. She’s gonna be a main character in the Spider-Man Universe from now on. Strangely, I never feel pressure when I get to do stuff with Spider-Man. I remember people asking me about how did I feel when we “killed” Peter Parker in [“Amazing Spider-Man”] #700, I was like, “I don’t know…” It was a great book, I knew it was going to make people talk about it, but I never felt any pressure doing it or “killing” him. I feel joy. I feel really, let’s say pride, when my editor asked me to redesign or create a character for a book because that makes me feel like they trust me.”"

Ramos talked about a lot of other stuff, such as his parent’s reaction to him wanting to be a comic book artist and getting to work with Dan Slott. To watch the whole interview just click play on the video below.

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