dan1
Sidekick
- Joined
- Jun 15, 2000
- Messages
- 1,051
- Reaction score
- 0
- Points
- 31
Gregatron, the Ultimate Line of Spider-Man was created for the purpose of "starting young again, pre-marriage, etc." and should have been enough to satiate those that want a young Spider-Man and, at the same time, make sure the 616 continuity stays as perfect as possible, where he would keep growing.
That would seem to have been the initial reasoning for Ultimate Line.
Spider-Man comics, to me and many others would have been very boring if he always remained young or if he was retrofitted as such.
I think you make a lot of valid points, everyone knows that, but your wish is/was an extreme one. There has to be a compromise and everyone who knows the history knows that if the writers and editors just respected 'it ' and wrote within continuity, insteading of making up whatever their lazy behinds want to make up, then you could have Young Spider-Man and Growing Spider-Man both being successful publications for two completely different markets.
Instead, it seems the Ultimate line is mostly read by the same jaded 616 history buffs that are just happy a comic is staying within its continuity.
Well, it isn't that hard to do that in 616, as we have all posted to death.
-Clone Saga, we know it dragged to long.
-Found a scapegoat in Norman
-Turned Norman into Spider-Mans' 'Joker.'
-Mackie burnt out writing too many issues, with management telling him what the major plots will be.
Those things happened, but they could have been easily rectified.
Instead the Snowballing hype and guaranteed success of the movies, and an editor and writer that care very little for theme and continuity crapped all over Spider-Man 616 comics, instead of quickly and easily fixing the above missteps, within continuity.
JMS and Quesada lost Spider-Mans' timeline, personality, supporting cast, and individuality from the movie counterpart(made for the masses).
Spider-Man comics could have been returned to Silver Age glory, which was still present well within Peters' marraige (IMHO).
You don't have to go back to Young Spider-Man only, to acheive that.
That would seem to have been the initial reasoning for Ultimate Line.
Spider-Man comics, to me and many others would have been very boring if he always remained young or if he was retrofitted as such.
I think you make a lot of valid points, everyone knows that, but your wish is/was an extreme one. There has to be a compromise and everyone who knows the history knows that if the writers and editors just respected 'it ' and wrote within continuity, insteading of making up whatever their lazy behinds want to make up, then you could have Young Spider-Man and Growing Spider-Man both being successful publications for two completely different markets.
Instead, it seems the Ultimate line is mostly read by the same jaded 616 history buffs that are just happy a comic is staying within its continuity.
Well, it isn't that hard to do that in 616, as we have all posted to death.
-Clone Saga, we know it dragged to long.
-Found a scapegoat in Norman
-Turned Norman into Spider-Mans' 'Joker.'
-Mackie burnt out writing too many issues, with management telling him what the major plots will be.
Those things happened, but they could have been easily rectified.
Instead the Snowballing hype and guaranteed success of the movies, and an editor and writer that care very little for theme and continuity crapped all over Spider-Man 616 comics, instead of quickly and easily fixing the above missteps, within continuity.
JMS and Quesada lost Spider-Mans' timeline, personality, supporting cast, and individuality from the movie counterpart(made for the masses).
Spider-Man comics could have been returned to Silver Age glory, which was still present well within Peters' marraige (IMHO).
You don't have to go back to Young Spider-Man only, to acheive that.