Themanofbat
Never Mind the Buttocks...
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It's all good and fun to say that Joe has to follow orders and all TMOB, and i agree with you in general principle....HOWEVER....for over two years I've read all the Joe quotes and snippets everywhere, how he can't sleep at night due to thinking about having them married and all the other nonsense he personally shared about his life and thoughts about marriage.
Not ONCE have i read or seen any proof that the board of directors mandated to Joe a "single spider-man".
Many boards do dictate and micromanage their managers and so on,...while there are just as many boards who let their bosses make the decisions and dn't care just so the bottom line line of the company isn't suffering..or then they'd get involved.
So, when i talk about Joe...i am talking about the TON of stuff he has personally related to anti-marriage the past years.
And yes, previous EIC's and writers have also wanted a single spider-man.
But i have heard others support the marriage also in the past and present.
I have NOTHING to go by, in stating this is the BOARDS fault, as you say....because there is no proof of that...only speculation on our parts. Who really knows if they care one way or another on it. I doubt the board members give a fig about what hero is married or which is single, which one flys, or which one enjoys ice cream.
Back to the poll...........I wonder if BND has sullied and ruined the opinions of for those that were pro-mechanical web-shooters previously to the point that now people would rather just go back and have the organics?
Well, I know we haven't heard any concrete "proof" of what the Marvel BoD want... but we do know that there was a 6 month mandate to get a single Spider-Man back in the early stages of 1994 when we first saw Ben Reilly, which may have merely been an editorial mandate of that day as well... but I would like to think that if I were on Marvel BoD, I would want to make sure that if my creative teams decide to do anything "radical" to our flagship character, they'd have to get our approval first.
And yeah, the web-shooter/organic poll really surprised me as well... makes me wonder if many readers/poll answerers are "movie" Spider-Man fans...



