Comment from Alex R

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:48:37 -05:00

Saw it coming a mile away. Not only won't they even try to finish their own stories, but they find the worst possible way to get rid of the marriage. Man, that's the worst thing I've ever seen a comic. It's up there with the Hindenburg disaster.

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Comment from Fred

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:41:06 -05:00

I was a Marvel Comics junkie from the early '70s to the mid-80s and haven't really kept up with it since. Oh, I still enjoy reading the old mags and even some new comics that somehow happen to catch my interest. And through the magic of the web every so often I'd check in to see what's been happening to the various characters I once loved to read about over the last couple of decades. I was admittedly rather shocked to learn that not only had Norman Osborne been brought back, alive and well, but that retroactively he had had apparently consensual sex with Gwen and she'd gave birth to his twins. Aunt May's death and resurrection just struck me as amusing, but I found it touching taht after actually finally discovering that Peter is Spider-Man, rather than dying of shock she wound up having a heart-to-heart, adult discussion with Peter and stood by him. Maybe not exactly consistent with the Aunt May as characterized by Stan & Gerry and most of Spidey's chroniclers for most of his career but if she's gonna stick around why shouldn't she be able to grow and change? Which gets to the heart of why I originally so enjoyed Marvel Comics -- most of their characters were not static, cardboard cutouts. They had reasonably recognizable human personalities and frailties. They made mistakes that had serious consequences, but they also learned. Peter Parker's character had matured considerably between his introduction in 1962 and 1972, when I began reading his stories regularly, but in reading those reprints and what back issues I could get, the change in Peter's personality was depicted as a gradual process which all empathetic, intelligent people go through. That touch of realism amidst the pure fantasy aspects was what drew me to Spider-Man and the other Marvel characters.
With this latest development, however,it appears that old Spider-Man is really gone for good and has been replaced by a parody. Ah, well.
I'm struck by the thought that they should do a series depicting all the old heroes from the 60s as they would be if they had aged realisticly over the next 40 years and died or aged (as they did episodicly with many of the '40s characters, leaving out the 'big 3', during the 70s and 80s). Then they should just let that particular version of the Marvel Universe go and stick with one of the new versions they've created of late or even create yet another one, starting over yet again as if the world had not yet seen the Fantastic Four or Spider-Man, etc.

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Comment from Adam

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:12:30 -05:00

If you want realistic story development, fleshy characters and linear plots, try reading George Martin's "A song of ice and fire" books.

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Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:20:13 -05:00

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