First. Yeah. You're a ranting fan boy.
First off don’t call me a ranting fan boy, its not nice.
Second so what if I am?, how is that any different from anyone else here who expresses an opinion.
You contradicted yourself in the sense that you praised DKSA for being "Different" when you're sitting there complaining at how many things differ from a "true" spider-man story. But anyhoots....
Nice try but no cigar.
I did not contradict myself.
I vaguely praised DKSA by saying I liked it because it was different to the first one.
DKR redefined so much and was such a landmark work that to write the follow up in the same style would have been like FM shooting himself in the foot. He had to do DKSA from a different angle.
Now being a non hardcore Batman reader I was entertained by the new direction, the extreme colour scheme, rough primitive art style and emphasis on the supporting cast.
With regard to Reign, it features ‘Spider-man’ a character I am very familiar with.
I was pointing out how the series does not read like a Spidey story and in fact is pretty damn depressing. You might not agree w/ me, but that’s how it is.
KLH for example was murky and dark , but it being bleak for the sake of it was not the sole driving force behind the narrative. With Reign it’s hard to see it any other way, unless you want to tell me what the point of this story is? What is it trying to accomplish that has not been done many times before in much more successful Spidey stories?, if it is indeed trying to do something other than be a lame DKR spin off that seeks to differentiate itself by being more depressing.
KA went on record himself to say that this series was ‘about making Spider-man feel some pain’ or some cheesy crap like that before #1 even saw print. Well congrats, its pretty depressing, just looks like he forgot the bit about how he was writing a Spider-man book.
You're basically saying that what’s been happening to Peter is statistically unrealistic? Are you saying NO ONE is able to have such a bad life? Please tell me this is not the intent of your unrealistic comment.
What I’m saying is once upon a time there was a kid called Kare Andrews who read a comic called The Dark Knight Returns. He loved it and thought to himself one day I will make a comic which takes it’s cues from DKR, but instead of Batman Il use Spider-man and make it really depressing to try and trick people into thinking it’s an original slant on the super hero format.
The end.
