I’ve Said My Peace and Counted to Three
One More Day?
IT’S OVER!
That’s the best thing I can say on it, but apparently, other people can say a heck of a lot more, most of it pretty damning. I hate to say this, but the more people get mad, talk about it and say what anyone with a history of reading Spidey books knows (that it’s a pretty lame idea to have your flagship character known for his moral compass to make a deal with the devil, that magic doesn’t fix everything, that erasing a major part of Peter Parker’s history is a unneeded plot twist, etc.)… the worse you make it for the new guys.
Now there’s a job you have to give some sympathy towards: try jumping on to a title after the EiC has set it on fire in front of the fans.
These new guys, from every interview and talk they’ve given, just want to write Spider-Man. They want to make him a good guy again and have some fun in our funny books. Have people forgotten that Dan Slott, one of the wittiest guys Marvel’s got, is going to be writing your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man?? When did this become a bad thing? Why aren’t people dancing in the streets that the reign of JMS is over?
Hey, says the reader, JMS did a lot of good for Spider-Man and put the book back on the map! Don’t blame him! Well, you know what? Gwen Stacy’s teen pregnancy by a man old enough to be her father. Whatever the heck The Other was supposed to be about. All that Spider Totem mombo-jumbo. He’s done some good, sure (I thought Peter teaching high school science was a stroke of genius, but you saw how much that got used in the book), but he’s also done some pretty lousy stories as well. We’re all human.
So he’s done. Brand New Day lies ahead. Accentuate the positive, people. And that’s all I’ve got to say about that.
