In any rate, they're not bringing the central premises of Clone Saga back...that the Peter we've read all of our lives is a fake. That's the part the fans didn't like, or couldn't stand. And was meant to be forgotten. The core of Clone saga, thus, was in the end, created to be forgotten. I meant, it was an idea or plot, that was horrible, at it's foundation, not meant to last the test of time obviously.
Well, it's still not forgotten because you just brought it up again.
And, of course, they are not going to bring that part of it back into the continuity of Spider-Man. But it's certainly not forgotten by the fans. Personally I loved that Ben Reilly was the "original" and the Peter Parker going around for years was "the cloned version". I enjoyed the dynamic that it set up in the Spider-Man books at the time.
It's unfortunate that fans didn't seem to understand what those writers, under much pressure from the Marvel marketing department, were trying to get across to the fans. The moral of the entire story to me was, "Just because he was a 'clone' does not mean that he was any less of a man or a hero. That if it were the real version or the clone version the decisions would have still been the same." Many fans didn't want to understand that, and still don't, because "The Peter Parker I read for all those years was a clone? THAT'S JUST BLASPHEMY!!!". It was STILL THE SAME GUY.
But I don't think this "era" of Spider-Man will be forgotten. It's nothing like the Clone Saga. Personally I think this "era" is meant to take Spider-Man into the future.
You know why they changed the Clone Saga? I'm sure you KNOW why they did it. The fan letters helped. Though the SALES DROPPED. They dropped badly. Bad enough for Marvel to go, "Well, we better fix this.". They did.
Now after One More Day, and then into the Brand New Day storyline, the sales didn't drop. They stayed, pretty much the same. It hasn't warranted them to "change things back to the way they were.".
If they do one day, then they do. If you're waiting for Joe Quesada to leave and for this "unnamed Editor in Chief savior" to come in you are absolutely kidding yourself.
You want it to be forgotten, nudie. You want it to change back? Well, write Marvel a letter. In fact, write them dozens of letters. Why? Because in this day and age a comic book company is going to take a letter more seriously than a bunch of rants on message boards. It's easy to come on a message board and say, "One More Day was trash! This new direction is trash! They are regressing the character back to the 1970's and the 1980's! He's getting drunk and sleeping with women now! This is just wrong!" The guys who make the decisions on these changes are not going to come on a message board to read the reactions. They'll have interns do it, even if they do that. But a letter? They will take that more seriously because you sat down and took the time to write out your thoughts with a pen, or pencil, put it in an envelope, put a stamp on it, and mail it. And if it's still, "This new direction is trash! etc". Well, it probably still won't be taken seriously.
To the people who are Joe Quesada's boss it's about the sales. The sales have not gone down for them to warrant this "change back" that a lot of the people who dislike it want. The only way for it to change is if the sales keep dropping. They aren't. There are more people out there that like it than dislike it.
To Joe Quesada, to Marvel, to a lot of creators who work hard to make entertaining stories...you know what they see when they see people complain over and over again about stories? Because it's what I see from a lot of posters sometimes, and I'm not talking about you, nudie, just trying to give some insight to others who ARE guilty. They see little children who are pounding their fists on the floor in a department store because their mommy won't buy them the "Cool action figure". And most of the people who sound like that are, most times, grown men.
Opinions are opinions. Everyone has one just like we all have *******s. Though this whole, "If we don't stop complaining about it they will think that we like it" doesn't really make a lot of sense to me. Because it's been almost two whole years now...nothing has changed. And in the coming months, it's still not changing. They have stories planned almost a year in advance, and there are no talks of anything changing.
So from one Spider-Man fan, who enjoys the Spider-Man comics he's reading month in and month out...Good luck with your complaints and opinions.
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