Themanofbat
Never Mind the Buttocks...
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Of course they aren't going to give the new guys a chance. Haven't you heard the old saying, "a spoiled apple ruins the bunch" or "You're going to ruin it for everybody"? How can any of us read this new stuff with the premise that was given for it in OMD? How can long term fans just ignore the fact that Spider-man now makes deals with the devil for purely selfish reasons and can never develope as a character? Why not drop the book when the guy we're reading about is still the same guy but only in name only? The instant the retcon happened, with how it happened, everyone who dropped the book were completely justified, especially since OMD was solid proof that agendas can be passed off as stories now a days.
As a long time fan who has been reading Spider-Man monthly for almost twice as long as you've been alive (and that does not make me a bigger fan... just lucky enough to read the old books when they came out), I can answer this in a few sentences.
First of all, what's done is done... I've seen ugly scenarios in Spider-Man comics, and the first one that pops into my head was the unecessary ressurection of Norman Osborn, which happened solely because they needed a "quick fix" to the mess the Clone Saga had become... and what was worse is the fact that they made Norman responsible for ALL the bad things that had happened to Peter since 1973 (our time)... what a fiasco.
And I've seen lots of highs and lows in the Spider-Books in 33+ years of reading, and while OMD is an EXTREME low, BND is delivering on it's promise of good storytelling, and I can't go through yet another bad "quick fix" retcon of this mess that might occur in 18 to 24 months. So I can live with some of the glitches thus far, with the hopes that SOME (or all hopefully) will be explained as we go on this path.
And while you might be looking at the "spoiled apple" ruining the future, I look at it as the "spoiled apple" being the cream of the pile of bad apples I've been reading for a long time.
And finally, if you want to think that it's Peter Parker in name only, that's your decision... but it is the Peter Parker that we all know and love, and that's why I'm keeping on reading the books.
Cheers...
