Once bitten twice shy.

But from the ComicBook.com interview with Image Comics founder and creator of Spawn, Todd McFarlane.

"Are there any circumstances that I would draw Spider-Man 'with' not 'for' but 'with' Marvel?" Again, everything's possible. And basically I'm saying , "Is it possible that someday I'll wake up and have an itch to do a Spawn and Spider-Man crossover?" Yeah. Would Marvel be interested? I don't know. I'd have to present it to them at that point. Maybe under a circumstance like that I could sort of have my cake and eat it too.

With their follow up with Marvel head honcho Joe Quesada.

There have been a handful of creators who have worked on Spidey who have left a legendary imprint and he's is certainly one of them so of course we'd love to work with him again and doing a Spidey Spawn book sounds like a blast! Personally I just think the fans would love to see it and I think we'd all have a lot of fun doing it not to mention how much our retail community would welcome the influx of dollars brought in by the sheer number of people walking into their stores brought on by the media buzz alone. So the simple answer is yeah, absolutely, if the stars aligned, we'd love to work in conjunction with Todd on a Spidey Spawn project, it's a win-win. So Todd give me a call,

I believe you both have the requisite phone numbers… Could Bendis and McFarlane shelve their feud for this kind of project, reuniting the pair?