Quote Originally Posted by Mister Mets View Post

If readers go for authentic classic Spider-Man, Marvel's going to notice. If more people read the Todd McFarlane comics or DeM atteis/ Buscema Spectacular Spider-Man than anything by Dan Slott, it's going to show up in the internal figures.
But that would have nothing to do with their job, as they see it - they're not responsible for selling old comics, they're responsible for a non-stop supply of new comics, at a quick rate they've chosen for themselves. Some dude running a server has more to do with selling those comics than they do.

We already know more readers have gone for that older stuff just because of their initial sales, their continued collection in TPBS and archives, their pseduo-sequels published today, and how much those readers grew up to try and copy them now as writers. We also KNOW that ultimate Spider-Man has been thrashing Amazing in sales.

But none of that would impact what they see their job as - rote, repetitive content generation, ad infinitum.

That's what you've been arguing they need to focus on, after all.

And that's not a head space conducive to looking for quality, ambition, progression or details - because those things require more time spend caring about the product, reviewing it for strengths and weaknesses, and taking risks, all things that they regard as hindrances, ignorable options, or potentially dangerous

Now, when the industry was healthy and Spider-Man climbed to dominate it (along with the rest of Marvel), quality, ambition, progress, and details were what the franchise was about.

Now, editorial believes it's about an assembly line of tried and true tropes, and refusal to rock the boat with established character, a collection of interchangeable love interests, and a contempt for details or psychology.

Other stuff working because it doesn't follow their demands for infinite content production will never matter to them - much like how most of their stuff will never matter to the larger franchise.