Re: OMD Irony

On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 01:45:20 -0800 (PST), Tony <TonyJ1675@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Dec 6, 12:16?am, grinningdemon <grinningde...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 10:04:16 -0800 (PST), Tony <TonyJ1...@xxxxxxx>
wrote:





On Dec 5, 9:55?am, hank.drisk...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
And right or wrong, you have to respect that.

jms

Y'know what? ?Not so much.

I work in a similar field, and you really don't have to respect people
who claim they love the characters even as they destroy what's made
you love those same characters. ?I've grown up with Peter, I love
where he's gone, ups and downs, and I read both the young Peter in
Ultimate Spider-Man and the adult Peter in the 616 stories. ?His
relationship with Mary Jane is a fundamental part of where Peter has
grown as a character.

The events of the OMD arc have made me stop buying Spider-Man comics.
For 20+ years, I've bought all the Spider-Man titles, and I had the
comics up through the end of OMD pre-ordered before I knew the details
of its conclusion, but for everything after OMD I've turned off pre-
orders. ?I'm sure these events have done the same for many others...
the only way to genuinely be heard is to stop handing money to Marvel
for this character, not to yell loudly on internet groups while
continuing to buy the comics. :(

I have great respect for you as a writer, but the last issue made my
stomach turn.

--thank you.
I'm glad to hear there are others who are actively dropping the
Amazing Spider-Man in protest over this junk. ?Maybe enough of us will
and Marvel will be forced (ala the Clone Saga) to relent.

Tony

I'm going to get the last OMD issue just to cap off my collection and
sufficiently sicken me so I won't buy another issue...after that,
Ultimate Spiderman will have to hold me over until/unless this madness
subsides...I hate to do it since I too have been collecting Spidey for
almost 20 years (the Clone Saga didn't even drive me off) and because
I think some of the new creators coming on could actually do a decent
job under other circumstances but I'm done.- Hide quoted text -

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--I too wasn't driven off by the Clone Saga (largely b/c many of the
elements of it were intriguing). I was partially driven off by JMS'
insistence on the Totem related stories on ASM, but at least I had
Peter David's FNSM book to read. Now I won't be reading any Spider-
Man titles (except Ulimtate SM in trades).

Tony (who was sufficiently sickened just by reading OMD part 3)

Despite common opinion, the Clone Saga did have it's moments.

I was pretty happy with JMS's Spiderman up until Sins Past...I didn't
care much for the spider totem stuff either but I loved his
characterization (with Peter, MJ, and May)...I loved the way he had
May discover the secret (actually made her interesting for the first
and only time in the history of Spiderman)...and I loved the way he
brought Peter and MJ back together...Peter's interaction with his
students was fun too (I thought teaching was a perfect fit for
him)...and I especially loved the little moments he would throw in
with Spiderman encountering average New Yorkers (bumming popcorn off a
guy in his balcony, getting a ticket from a cop for riding on the hood
of a car, etc.)...I just wish JMS had worked in some of the other
traditional supporting cast (he still could have taken some pics for
the Bugle on the side or something)...after Sins Past, JMS just didn't
seem to care anymore...the stories and characterization went downhill
fast.

I liked some of Peter David's FNSM (I really liked the way he reset
Flash Thompson and brought in some of the other supporting characters
that hadn't been around in a while)...but I think he would have done
so much better if he hadn't been hampered by crossovers and the events
of other books.

My favorite Spider-book lately has actually been Sensational
Spiderman...it hasn't been great but it has been consistently
entertaining (I could have done without Black Cat hooking up with Puma
though)...and I really loved the Annual by Matt Fraction...it was just
about the only really good story to come from all this Back in Black
nonsense.

Oh well, at least I'll have a little extra cash each month from now
on.
.

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