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.
January 4th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
It has nothing to do with the new guys coming in, its has to do with the horrible raw deal that Joe Quesada gave to the long time fans and their favorite character. Speaking as a fan who has collected Spider-Man for about 25 years, what Quesada did was not only a slap in the face to long time readers but disgraceful as well to a well beloved character who emotionally blackmailed his wife and makes a deal with the devil because he’s too much coward to face his responsibility and move forward in his life. Reading the interview Joe gave to Comic Book resources, he came across as an arrogant egomaniac who could care less about its loyal readers and he could not give an compelling reason why he did what he did other than the sad and illogical reason that he and his fellow writers could not write for a marred Spider-Man which i and many fans find to be nothing more than a lie that he’s using to not take responsibility for the fact that it has been his horrible editorial mandates that have hurt the book in its story telling and its coherency.
This has nothing to do with the new writers coming to “Brand New Day”, its about telling Joe Quesada that he was wrong and I’m going to vote with my wallet to not support what he did to the character and its loyal fans.
January 4th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
I can’t wait for Dan Slott. He wrote the three best Spidey stories of the last year with the free comic day one-shot and Peter Parker’s awesome guest appearances in Avengers Initiative.
January 5th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
I wish that was the case, Fred, but unfortunately the Spider-Man I’ve been dying to get my hands on, the everyman with the moral compass and heart who swings into action, has to come out of a rather crappy story and instead of people focusing on the positive change that’s coming, we’re focusing on the negative. Slott, Gale, Guggenheim and Wells are going to take the brunt of all this mess and they had nothing to do with what came before them. It’s a lousy deal.
January 7th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
You see, but JMS didn’t want to have Gwen with Osborn. That was Quesada. Sure maybe Gwen and Peter kids could be just as bad, but at least wasn’t creepy. I liked the mythological stuff. At least was well written, better than a lot that followed. Truth be told, I could even stomach a ill-planned retcon envolving but the Devil and one of the most moral heroes of the Marvel U. What I can’t stand at all is the smugness of Quesada. Every interview he gives, is like he is flipping the bird to the fans and saying: I did because I can and you can’t, so Bah!”
Seriously, Quesada has a pre-schooler mentality. Is like he is one these embarassing fanboys that troll on forums, except that is really worse because A) he has real power concerning comics (unlike any internet troll) and B) he does boneheaded editorial direction after another and the books keep selling. Is this karma?
So yeah, I feel sorry for Dan Slott or Guggenheim. They didn’t nothing wrong. But I hope the 3x a month Spider-man tanks and tanks hard. Because otherwise, this will become a corporative culture (if isn’t yet) and no editor should have such arrogance or be allowed such open disregard for the consumer base.
January 9th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
How it probably went.
Joe Q: Hey Dan, we’re gonna take you off of She-Hulk
Dan Slott: WHAT!!! BUT ITS SELLING WELL!
Joe Q: We want you on Spider-Man
Dan Slott: ITS NOT FAIR I…wait what? Are you serious?
Joe Q: Yep
Dan Slott: Wow thanks man.
Joe Q: Yeah you’ll have free reign *says under breath* after I undo Pete and MJs wedding in a deal with Mephisto to save Aunt May’s life
Dan Slott: What was that last part?
Joe Q: Um….BYE *runs away*
Yeah, I feel for Slott, dude has got a rough journey ahead of him.
January 15th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
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