I don't think I'm missing out on anything really. That's my choice to make. The art may be good, it may even be well written, but they've sacrificed too much. They've wiped over too many stories and too many years of continuity. If I read the books, no matter how well written they are, it simply wouldn't sit right with me that Peter isn't married to MJ - has never been married to MJ as far as he is concerned. Harry's alive. Everyone forgets the identity.
Their new "status quo" seems like an obvious attempt to get rid of older fans in favour of bringing in newer fans. I can't give my money to people that would reward my loyalty with such disrespect.
Of course it's your choice to make. I'm not here to tell you what to do. I'm allowed to express my opinion too and say that people are missing out. And Harry may be back. But where else have they wiped out stories? If you would have read the book maybe you'd have a better understanding of what exactly happened.
And it's unfortunate that you are looking at it that way. That Marvel wants to get rid of "older" fans for "newer" fans. That's absolutely ridiculous and asinine to even think. That's just an excuse. Why would Marvel, a business, want to purposely push fans away? Do you realize how ******ed that is?
Maybe instead of thinking that Joe Quesada and the "evil" Marvel are pissing in your cornflakes maybe you could think, "Hmm, maybe they are trying to clean up some things and give us the Spider-Man that we've all been asking for for the past four to five years...hmmm".
But, no...of course not. Joe Quesada is raping "your" character, right? He's raping "your" childhood. Is that what he's doing to you? Because I read Brand New Day and it was really good. It had old school Spidey mixed with something new. Yes, it felt weird. Any kind of drastic change like retconning the marriage is going to give you an odd feeling reading the book.
The fact of the matter is that if all people are going to do is cry like little babies over their poor ol' Spider-Man than they can do it. It's your opinion, right? To be grown men crying over a fictional character? You're allowed to do that. Because you've invested years and years of emotions into this character. And you feel that spending all that money and putting all that time into the character makes you have some kind of "ownership" over it, right? That you kind of get to have a say in where the character goes, right? It's sort of like buying stock and you get to go to the meetings and give advice where the product is going to go. Well, it's not like that. As I said in another thread...if Joe Quesada really gave a damn what you or anybody else thought...he wouldn't have done One More Day. In fact, he wouldn't have made half the decisions he made over the past four years if he gave a damn about any of you.
So, here's a clue....get over it. Go read something else and maybe if you all would stop complaining about it so much, maybe something would get done. Because this board has been NOTHING but complaint after complaint. The same boring arguements over and over again. Wah, this isn't MY Spider-Man. Wah, Spider-Man would never do that! Wah, Wah, Wah. And now it's going to get even worse. Wah, they ended the marriage. Wah, it's an alternate reality Spider-Man. Wah, Wah. Boo hoo, poor me. I'm an adult and the only thing in my life I have to complain about is the ficitonal character of Spider-Man. There are people homeless on the streets. There are people who won't eat today. There are children being used as slaves. Yet Spider-Man's marriage has more concern to some of you than real life. It's pitiful. It's sad. And it's really going to be humorous if it continues. I'm sorry...WHEN it continues....
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