Dan, thanks for throwing some cold water on it.
Stillanerd you little pyromanic.....
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Or....or...I'll cry! Trust me, there's nothing more sad and uncomfortable than a big black Canadian dude in a makeshift Anti Venom costume crying on your porch holding a "Remember Brock" placard. 
Just don't do it Dan!
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I know, I know. I over-reacted...again.
But at least this time, I actually have a different "back-up" theory about MJ that I made a couple of weeks back...
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Yes. That's it. Because the 1st 250 times he's come soooooooooo close.
Seriously, after 4 years, it boils down to this: I am so f'ing sick of this pattern:
1. Mike posts a bizarre theory of something we're NEVER GOING TO DO.
And then people talk about how awful the book is GOING to be, when we do that that thing-- that we're NEVER GOING TO DO.
2. Eventually, after a few pages of this crap, the message gets muddled and people start actually BELIEVING we're going to do the thing that we're NEVER GOING TO DO.
3. And then Mike runs around the web like Paul-Frickin'-Revere posting his theory on multiple boards-- so the idea pollinates-- and people from ONE board use the fact that since people are talking about it on ANOTHER board-- it MUST be true. OY VEY!
4 years of this.
Seriously.
Mike has a gift for this.
I just wish he'd leave that gift wrapped and tucked away in the back of a closet.
Why would you kill off the Amazing Spider-Girl???
Silly goose.....
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There's no such person as mayday parker. If she existed she was stolen and disappeared forever.
Dear God, man! STOP! WHEN (outside of the times when future solicits SPOON-FED you the answers) have you EVER been right about ANY of your ASM predictions? Your track record on this is HORRIBLE.
People, this is a guy who steadfastly predicted Jay Jameson's death from his arrival in the book-- almost 100 issues ago-- that he would die "next issue." (Still waiting on that, ain't ya?
Yes. That's it. Because the 1st 250 times he's come soooooooooo close.
Seriously, after 4 years, it boils down to this: I am so f'ing sick of this pattern:
1. Mike posts a bizarre theory of something we're NEVER GOING TO DO.
And then people talk about how awful the book is GOING to be, when we do that that thing-- that we're NEVER GOING TO DO.
2. Eventually, after a few pages of this crap, the message gets muddled and people start actually BELIEVING we're going to do the thing that we're NEVER GOING TO DO.
3. And then Mike runs around the web like Paul-Frickin'-Revere posting his theory on multiple boards-- so the idea pollinates-- and people from ONE board use the fact that since people are talking about it on ANOTHER board-- it MUST be true. OY VEY!
4 years of this.
Seriously.
Mike has a gift for this.
I just wish he'd leave that gift wrapped and tucked away in the back of a closet.
I don't think the issue is simply "guessing what comes next"... but more the fact that when people present their "guesses", and then people jump all over the board thinking these "guesses" are fact, then go on and on and on and on and on an on and on ad nauseum about how these "facts" (based on guesses) are going to ruin the book at all the haters come in and join the blood frenzy.
If you go back a few pages when all the "guesses" began, you see how it quickly (and ridiculously) turns from mere guessing to full blown attacks and hate towards the book.
I just read the book, and I'm pretty annoyed with it.
I don't really care how the outcome was handled, but as far as I am concerned, I am annoyed when the can of spray hate comes out... it goes beyond fun debates on a possible outcome, which I agree, used to be a LOT more fun before the internets.
But as far as how peopel conduct themselves on this board... that's a ship that has long sailed...
I like the book, so why wouldn't I enjoy "positive" comments?
An I've not liked everything since BND... and those recent FF team-ups in ASM were boring in my opinion (and those were just off the top of my head)... and people are definitely entitled to a negative opinion about anything that goes on in any book....however, when the haters (and you know who they are... people who dropped the book 3 years ago but yet look for any excuse to make their hatred of JQ and Marvel to voice there prosaic "Marvel sucks!!!" opinion yet again) just get pissed about something that isn't real, it's stupid an annoying. Bring something new to the table people. We know you hate the current Marvel admin for what they've done to "your" precious childhood idol (even though some people like the nw direction of "their" childhood idol), but if your just going to post repetitive angst that we've all heard before, then go to Spider-Man Crawl Space instead.
But I certainly don't get annoyed by a well crafted negative opinion. In fact, I like them because it enables me to see something from a differing point of view. I just wish I could read such an opinionmore often.
Internets debates are indeed quite fun. Let me know when an actual debate pops up in this thread. Perhaps one that doesn't involve Venom/Flash/Eddy Brock (that's the last one that I can remember that actually has some decent discourse in it)
If you think that the "hate" comments that followed the specualtion of MJ's demise to be actual debate worthy (my apologies to the one or two people that might have actually said anything worthwhile), then you need an english lesson to understand what a debate actually is.
How Dan Slott represents himself here (or anywhere for that matter) is irrelevant to me. However, if you think he's conducting himself ina childish and hypocritical manner, maybe it's because he feels the need to stoop that low so that the people he responds to understand what he's saying. I don't think it's fair that he has to subject himself to some invisible "professional standard" while the rest of us just poops on him... if people are allowed to sling feces where they want, then it's only fair that the person on the receiving end gets to fling it back... tit for tat.
I couod care less about SaN's theory about MJ dying... it was interesting to read, but until such an event sees print, I'll believe it when I see it.
I'm 44 years old... I never get upset by anyone's opinion on anything because I have learned a loooong time ago that people's opinions are just that.... opinions. And SaN's theory was interesting when I read it... I usually find most of his theories interesting... but they are what they are.... theories. Nothing more, nothing less. I am getting a kick out of your goading, but I have expected nothing less from you over the years.
In any event, you can say what you want, but it doesn't make it any more valid than anything I say. However, if you want to keep this "debate" going, keep it clean and I'll play with you for a long time.
Cheers.
Mike
Dear God, man! STOP! WHEN (outside of the times when future solicits SPOON-FED you the answers) have you EVER been right about ANY of your ASM predictions? Your track record on this is HORRIBLE.
People, this is a guy who steadfastly predicted Jay Jameson's death from his arrival in the book-- almost 100 issues ago-- that he would die "next issue." (Still waiting on that, ain't ya?
Big finger wag to ANYBODY here who takes ANY of stillanerd's predictions to heart. Seriously, I wag my finger at you.
And WORLD'S BIGGEST EYE-ROLL at someone who uses stillanerd's predictions to PRE-HATE the book for SOMETHING WE WIND UP NOT DOING. (I'm looking at you spideyboy_1111, ya big Pre-Hater.)
Jeez.
Yes. That's it. Because the 1st 250 times he's come soooooooooo close.
Seriously, after 4 years, it boils down to this: I am so f'ing sick of this pattern:
1. Mike posts a bizarre theory of something we're NEVER GOING TO DO.
And then people talk about how awful the book is GOING to be, when we do that that thing-- that we're NEVER GOING TO DO.
2. Eventually, after a few pages of this crap, the message gets muddled and people start actually BELIEVING we're going to do the thing that we're NEVER GOING TO DO.
3. And then Mike runs around the web like Paul-Frickin'-Revere posting his theory on multiple boards-- so the idea pollinates-- and people from ONE board use the fact that since people are talking about it on ANOTHER board-- it MUST be true. OY VEY!
4 years of this.
Seriously.
Mike has a gift for this.
I just wish he'd leave that gift wrapped and tucked away in the back of a closet.
