Themanofbat said:
I don't know. I don't know. Why do people call "Sins Past" "Sins of the Past" half the time?
The "the" migrated on me, I guess. I'm lucky I can spell my own name half the time.
Themanofbat said:
I wish I could have read your initial response. I like angry retorts.
I don't. At least not from me. All too often I start thinking I'm being childish. I'd much rather logical, intelligent, cool headed responses.
Good luck getting that from me.
Themanofbat said:
Listen... maybe I did come off strong, and I didn't mean to insult you as a person. I have; however, lumped you with the anti-JMS crowd that has sprung up here since Sins Past and perhaps I tend to leap to conclusions when I read "insert ad nauseum about JMS here" statements from that anti-JMS crowd. I certainly don't recall anything positive you've said about the Spidey-writing since then, but then again, I don't read everyone's posts. I apologize for the assumption.
Well, I have said positive thimgs about JMS post-"Sins Past". Once. Briefly. Which was why you missed it. But it's on this forum some place, darn it.
He's a good writer. I just don't think he's been doing that great on Spider-man. Or most of the other super hero comics he's been doing, come to that.
Incidentally, this makes twice you've done this to me. I don't want you to think I make a running tally of these sorts of things. But I do.
Themanofbat said:
Having said that, you are definitely entitled to your opinions about May's character development, as well as anything that goes on in the Spidey books. If you don't like the direction May's going into, who am I to say that you should. I think you are in the minority, but it's still your opinion nonetheless, and one that should be respected.
It should be respect up to the point I can't back it up and no further. I'm not asking for any special treatment here. I give an opinion that's completely off the wall and can back it up, I should be shut down.
But kindly, I hope.
Look, I'm not saying the "majority" is wrong in their opinion, or that my way is the right way of looking at things. (Course, I kind of did last post, but that was in the heat of the moment.) All I'm saying is that I don't like the way May's being handled by JMS. No more or less.
My original comment was a bit of a non sequitur, though. What I
should have said was "I don't like JMS's take on May, but if it leads to more moments like the one in SS#31, I might be able to live with it." It's what I meant, in any case.
Themanofbat said:
So enough rants... we've seen far too many of them from everybody.
No more rants? What am I going to do with my time now?
I have a blog. I've been trying to keep my rants there, where no one'll read them.
Themanofbat said:
I haven't liked a LOT of things in the Spidey books over recent years, and as I said, as a continuity buff, I would have preferred a dead Aunt May because, for all intents and purposes, she died. But since she was brought back, I do like the depth they've given her character and it's nice to see her beyond an always sick old woman doting over her nephew... which, by the way, she still does.
Cheers...
What they've give in place of the sick aunt doting on the nephew is the nephew whose overprotective of his clearly strong aunt, which I don't think is much better.
But I'm all for depth, I'm all for good stories. With this issue as a potential exception, I'm just not seeing them.
But hey! There's always the Future right?
(See, this is why I edited/mellowed my response. Nice discussion, no hair pulling. At least, none
on my end.)
t: 
He clearly doesn't think much, know how to write, or has the most positive views of younger women, but he seems to 'get' older women, big time
