Droping Amazing Spider-Man

[TheCorpulent1]

Hobgoblin's being used left and right in Amazing Spider-Girl.

 

[The Mad Titan]

Like anybody reads that Crap anymore. Peter? Grown up with a wife and two kids? Poppycock!

 

[Egotastic]

I actually just started reading it. It's good.

 

[The Mad Titan]

I used to read it. Before the switch to Amazing Spider-Girl. Just wasn't as good as before.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I've been enjoying it on and off for years. I tend to go back and forth between loving the old-school feel of it and wishing someone would give DeFalco and Frenz a break and modernize it a little bit. It's good, but sometimes it's a little too old school, to the point that it reads as a bit hammy.

 

[Egotastic]

That's impression I got from the first volume. I haven't really had that problem with this new one, though.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'm getting a little bored of the Hobgoblin, myself. DeFalco used to spend a lot more time cooking up fun, new villains instead of using a classic one over and over.

 

[Egotastic]

Eh, I'm just enjoying a light hearted, controversial free Spider-Man story.

 

[Themanofbat]

Spider-Girl is great!!!

 

[Kitsune]

Spider-Girl is great!!!

I've been enjoying it for some time now.

 

[venom892]

Is it Rodrick Kingsly?Wouldn't he be really old?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, it's Roddie, and he is super-old.

 

[CorpusBlack]

I should start picking up ASG. Maybe once I finally drop ASM.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

ASG is good stuff.

 

[Egotastic]

Does anyone read Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man?

 

[CorpusBlack]

Does anyone read Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man?

I've picked up a few here & there.

 

[Egotastic]

Any good?

 

[CorpusBlack]

Any good?

Eh. It's okay, nothing special.

 

[Egotastic]

I wonder why Marvel didn't put this whole thing up for a vote. Let the fans decide.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Because the majority of the fans would have overwhelmingly voted to keep the marriage which was something Quesada did not want.

 

[Egotastic]

Then the next question is: What's so wrong about giving fans what they want?

 

[CorpusBlack]

Then the next question is: What's so wrong about giving fans what they want?

What's that Alan Moore quote about artists and the audience?

 

[Egotastic]

I don't know. I don't consider what Alan Moore does and Spider-Man books to the same thing, anyway.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Then the next question is: What's so wrong about giving fans what they want?

Because Quesada really, really wanted to get rid of the marriage badly.

 

[Themanofbat]

Then the next question is: What's so wrong about giving fans what they want?

Because most fans want "closure", meaning an end to Spider-Man, where they can watch Peter & MJ grow old with their children and live happily ever after...

We all secretly pine for it, even though we know it can't happen... but the direction that the Spider-Books had taken during the last decade or so was making that reality a lot closer than what Marvel Comics Inc. would have liked to have seen, as well as taking Spider-Man away from his "roots".

I know a few of you have been complaining about Pete's recent bad luck in BND, but that's how it used to be... the guy could never get a break... one of the BETTER parts of Spider-Man 2 (in my opinion) was seeing that Parker Luck come to life on the big screen, with nothing ever going right for Pete...

Marvel wants to ensure that their character, the one they own, is in a good state for many decades to come, and with a married Peter Parker (with the potential to have kids), they feel that have painted themselves in a corner, and despite what the fans want NOW, future fans may not be so interested in geriatric Spidey celebrating his 30th wedding anniversary, but being late for his son's college graduation because of a fight with the Rhino...

And if Marvel always gave the fans what they want, then we'd be seeing a Gwen Stacy/Peter Parker being married, and they'd have no love affair for MJ like they do now.