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I absolutely agree just restoring the marriage isn't enough, and I'd also argue USM is outperforming not just because of the marriage.

There are a lot of lesssons to be taken from USM, starting...

It worked for twenty years. It worked when Amazing Spider-Man was the best-selling comic in the late 80s/early 90s. Now USM is the best-selling comic.



This is your opinion.

It is not a...

I...didn't say that?

What it does is make people on top ask why aren't the other books are performing at the same level.

If Coke is dominating its market, then the question becomes why isn't...

They should be characters. I agree with Daibhidh this is probably too complex to discuss on a message board.

Even two dimensional representations of women shouldn't be treated as interchangeable...

The MARKET has said the preference makes more money.



No one who is a serious businessperson is going to say, "Better not make that best selling product any more, Bob, Twixxer user...

I agree about marketability.

But to get back to the original thesis, marketable doesn’t mean iconic.

Marketable just means there’s a big enough niche of buyers to turn a profit.

In this...

I agree about iconic. And it has a specific meaning.

Ask a rando on the street, "Who is Peter Parker's iconic girlfriend? Who is his iconic relationship?"

They are not going to say Felicia.
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Again, not saying she isn't a great character. Not saying she doesn't have an important place in the Spider-Man world. Not saying that Felicia herself isn't iconic.

But her relationship with...

And then Dan gets asked why the other books aren't perfoming up to the same level.

He actually has less cover than he did when ASM was selling neck and neck with Batman, because at least then...

I didn't say that Felicia wasn't great, in Noir or otherwise! She's awesome! She's a great character and can be and do a LOT more than just be the occasional rebound for Peter when MJ isn't around. ...

I agree investors don't care at that granular a level.

But Dan Buckley, as Marvel Publisher and now sole president of Marvel Entertainment (co-president Rob Steffens was let go in 2023 when Ike...

This entire run can be read as nothing but a collection of cynical, shallow, ultimately meaningless Robot Chicken sketches.

According to this, Marvel made a terrible mistake by commissioning Spider-Boy and Spider-Gwen when they did.

But it's doubtful they would agree with that assessment.



Right. Which is why...

Marvel saw dollar signs after one issue of Mary Jane and Black Cat: Beyond and put additional minis in the works.

Marvel saw dollar signs after four issues of Secret Wars: Renew Your Vows and put...

You’re not the only one saying that. People have been pulling for mind control as the reveal to why this run is so horribly off ever since Dead Language.

It really says something when a majority...

I agree. Felicia and Peter were never ever never “iconic” LOL. Words have meanings and that’s not one for iconic. And not even in Noir, where MJ is the established end game.

They outright said in...

Peter and Felicia were never a secret couple. They were either dating/sleeping with each other openly or friends, with a period of wariness when Felicia was dating Flash under the mistaken assumption...

Because we’re finally in the home stretch and the toys are being repaired to be put back in toy chest for the next child instead of continuing to break them under the mistaken apprehension that...

Gotta agree with you.

I do understand people wanting more "Spider-Manning" in a book entitled "Spider-Man" but I think Hickman is playing the long game here - maybe too long for some and that's...

Have to agree.

No matter what happens in the rest of the series, in the first issue Felicia condoned her girlfriend blackmailing nearly the entire city, causing emotional stress and damage to...

He admitted he shouldn't have approached an underage woman.

Denying the victims their dignity and veracity is even more uncool.

And this is the last I will say on the subject, which is now...

I think we’re supposed to infer that in the month(s) between the books Peter had been going out and doing his thing - Gwen talks about how he’s being portrayed in the media.

QFT.



Also QFT.

USM was such an amazing read. So much fun to read actual characterization in a comic for once. 6160 MJ feels authentic and alive - and also closer to the established 616 MJ -...

Piskor, 41, apologized for the messages in his note and said he never should have communicated with the teenager. He also addressed separate allegations from another artist, saying that they had a...

He groomed an underage woman. He admitted it. The woman provided proof.

He is responsible for his own behavior.

And repeating again because I don’t think it can be said enough:

“If you are...