Comics Top 10 Reasons I Stopped Reading Spiderman

[USMC]

among other reasons:heart:

 

[spider greg]

wtf? when did jigsaw do that? Who wrote that fubar?

It was Bendis, and I agree that was really odd.

 

[Dark Spidey]

It was an admitted mistake.

 

[hex]

Ah thats why, I never read New Avengers

lol.. well as long as BMB admitted, it's cool

 

[Dark Spidey]

Actually I think the mistake was the artists, David Finch.

 

[spider greg]

It was an admitted mistake.

Yea, now that you mention it I think I remember hearing that. Did they at least try to come up with an explanation?

 

[Dark Spidey]

Yea, now that you mention it I think I remember hearing that. Did they at least try to come up with an explanation?

All I remember is that it was Piledriver who was meant to break Spidey's arm.

 

[hex]

Tee hee, 7 months later, and having finally read One More Day, and yet again...
Every 6 months or so and yet another reason "I stopped reading Spiderman" Thanks Joe!

 

[Infidel]

I don't think the editors really care anymore. I'm serious. Even after the 'clone saga' and 'Chapter One/ Reboot', Spider-man still had a great vibe to him, like he was really SPider-man. Then JMS got a hold of the book, I can't think of why any competent EIC would allow him to not only change SPider-man's origin but chang the book so it's almost unrecognizable and then end it all with gimmick after gimmick. Now they act like it didn't happen. It just shows that they don't care. THey could of done a really good Unmasking story, but they don't care.

There's my reason.

 

[moraldeficiency]

only the clone saga and this currrent SOS have caused me to stop reading spider-man. I'll start back up the issue they undo this the same as I did with the clone saga.

Even as bad as sins past was I didn't get upset enough to boycott.

 

[Captivated]

My top ten...in no particular order:

10- Relaunches. They continually relaunch the secondary books instead of just (gasp) changing the creative teams! There should stil be a Spectacular and a Web of...

9- No supporting cast. We have no one left. Marvel has either killed them, forgotten about them, or they feel that Aunt May, Mary Jane, and the Avengers are all that Peter needs.

8- Spidey is a tool. He has become a brainless baboon who follows Tony Stark to the bitter end. It's ******ed. Peter used to be his own man...now look at him.

7- Spider-Man...an Avenger?! This doesn't anger me as an idea, but Spidey has proven to be the most useless Avenger ever. The GLA are more useful than Spidey, at this point. It's pathetic. Not to mention he's on the "New" Avengers....not the REAL Avengers...

6- Spider-Man: Sins Past. This was the first shot Marvel really fired at fandom. It totally betrayed the characters it portrayed, and it was so ou of continuity that it wasn't even funny. On top of that, even if it HAD been good, the ending was so anti-climactic, that it was rendered useless.

5- The Other. This is the worst Spider-Man story ever. Nothing about it is good, and it lead to the next few problems I have with the Spidey-books lately. Also, it changed Spider-Man's ORIGIN. Argue it all you want, it plainly states that he is now powered by a magical pagan Spider-God.

4- Spider-Man killing Morlun. Morlun?! Of all the characters Spidey shoud have killed, Norman, Carnage, or even Morbius (out of pity), he kills Mr.Nobody, Morlun?! Not only does he do it, but it was uncalled for. If he can stab a guy through the arms and hold him down, then he can hold him until the Avengers arrive, as opposed to eating his freakin' head.

3- That damned ugly costume. How anyone can argue that this costume isn't hideous is beyond me. It was a joke when it was introduced, and it's a joke now. The fact that a good artist makes it look better is a testament to the artist, not the suit.

2- The unmasking. It is cool in the premise os Civil War. It works FOR THAT STORY. However, all this does in the Spider-man books is give the writers a little more time before their lack of creativity becomes evident again. Find me the last issue of ASM that didn't revolve around some sort of "Major change". That's what I thought.

1- The books are no longer fun for me. I used to enjoy reading a Spider-man book. Whenever the books came out, I couldn't wait to read them! They were on the top of the stack!! Every issue was chock full of gorgeous artwork and light-hearted, fun storytelling.

The hits just keep coming don't they?

AGAIN - I would ditto the above list with the following changes/additions...

I didn't mind Spider-Man becoming an Avenger, the way it happened seemed to make sense. What I HATED, and why I dropped the Avengers title, was that Spider-Man was made to look like an incompetent fool most of the time. I also find teams up to be tedious when they take time away from the character I like.

Tony and Peter becoming friends also made sense the way it evolved... for awhile. But that changed with the convoluted MESS called the Civil War. I really HATED that whole story arc. I can't believe in retrospect that I paid good money for it, just because I had a Spidey "habit" to support. (HAD being the operative word.)

My addition to list, and the real and TOTAL deal killer (as in I HAVE actually quit reading) for me was:

1 - The "erasing" of the marriage, by SATAN (aka JQ). I don't want to see Peter "dating" when he is STILL married, and I find the suggestion that Peter and MJ were just shacking-up all these years to be OFFENSIVE.

2 - The out of character deal with the devil. Which also falls under the "Peter is an idiot" category.

3 - The huge MESS they have made out of continuity.

It's a TOP 10 that still turns my stomach. I loved my little Spider-Man habit. And they RUINED it for me!!!!!!

 

[Trevor Goodchild]

The only thing that built me up to giving up on Spidey was the entire 2nd half of ASM, as it started with Sins Past.
Otherwise:
-JMS was alright as a writer for a while;
-Making Peter a teacher was a brilliant choice for me;
-The totem added perspective to the origin, it did not change it in my eyes;
-In my opinion the New Avengers shows how much influence and character weight Spider-Man really carries compared to all other much more glorious heroes. What I mean to say is that he fitted well, as much as a friendly neighborhood vigilante can;
-Loved the stingers, in FNSM:BiB to be precise;
-The iron spidey costume was ok…

ASM has always been that big important core title.
The real heart came from all those other runs that constantly died and were resurrected again - PP:SM, SpecSM, SenSM, FNSM…
Oh right, there was all that organic webbing and sins past sequel stuff too...but hey, it never got as bad as ASM. Mostly I'd allow those kinds of screw ups in side-titles because they are more loose in nature already. They don't have the obligations the core title has, which makes JMS and JQ’s ASM even more of a failure.

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

5. Joe Q
4. There is no good writing with Spider-Man anymore.
3. Peter has been written out of character. He is not an Avenger,and he does not obey Iron Man.
2. Core things related to Spider-Man has changed. Norman and Gwen are alive,etc.
1. The character has never matured. Like it has been said before,Peter never changes..he does not grow up. He can't live with Aunt May forever,he can't stay single forever,and he can't keep doing the same things forever.

 

[DACrowe]

1. Ending the marriage in the worst possible way by just not making a bad decision but having Peter basically sell his soul along with his marriage so as to save an already dying mother figure and thus retcon 20 years of history and bringing Harry Osborn back from the dead.

2. Peter taking off his mask willingly and joining the pro-registration side because he was Iron Man's *****. He had no comprehension of what was obviously going to happen and has a way too slow realization that he was wrong (as he was always on the law's side, obviously) and seems surprised that his family is targeted.

3. Rewriting the spider-origin into that totem god crap.

4. Peter turning into a real man-spider because it was destiny and magic that turned him into Spidey and so he eats Morlun's head, dies and his original body is digested by little spiders and he grows a new body in a cocoon. WHAT THE **** IS THAT ABOUT?!

5. Peter being a clone (I know it was retconned but still) and turning on MJ. Later on blaming the world and losing his powers.

6. Killing off baby May in rewrites and never having Peter or MJ really acknowledge losing a child other than a few initial issues in the early '90s afterwards and no mourning or discussing of the entire traumatic event.

7. Aunt May not really dying on her grace note and coming back and saying the original Aunt May was an actress and she has been captured by GG with a bomb in her head.

8. Gwen Stacy being Norman Osborn's ****e and sleeping with her friend's father while contemplating marriage with her boyfriend because he was "charismatic" and having his genetically altered children. She then apparently lied about it and they grow up at an accelerated rate and MJ knew about it all along. Riiiiight.

9. The complete removal of the supporting cast. Where is Flash? JJJ? Robbie or Randy? Liz? Betty? I could go on. It just is dull.

10. Peter just generally being Iron Man's lackey and the joke of the Avengers. Everyone makes fun of him and he gets powned by Logan twice and just looks like a tool. I'm going to add here that Peter would never join the Avengers anyway. He is too much of a loner.

There are just a few reasons right there.

 

[DACrowe]

I guess I forgot the obvious major reason, they turned him into a permanently stagnant and boring character who no longer grows. He is Charlie Brown now.