Absolutely not. Undo everything that Slott has built up to this point? That would be a terrible decision. Peter is doing great right now. The ONLY thing Marvel needs to do is cancel out OMD somehow and put Peter and MJ back together and everything will be right again.
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You were Spider-Man then. You and Peter had agreed on it. But he came back right when you started feeling comfortable.
You know what it means when he comes back.
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And accepted even more so by it still being allowed to matter in a much more natural and logical continuity.
I don't see a downside. How many stories outside of Superior can you objectively say were remotely memorable from this era?
Also, in-story Peter's not "doing great" at all.
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You know what it means when he comes back.
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I consider the whole Slott run as great and they're all memorable. To me. Maybe not to you, and that's okay. But IMO, Slott has taken Peter from a working stiff doing work at the Bugle to a character who has completely tapped into his potential and created a global company on par with anything Stark has done.
In addition to that, he has grown in his ability to enhance his tech and thereby making him a much better hero, which is a natural progression for someone with his brilliance.
You want him going back to working at the Bugle? Wondering how he's going to pay his rent? The same villains kicking his butt because he doesn't adapt and improve? The 'old Parker luck'? If that is what you want, then yes, I'm sure you want a hard reboot.
Me? I prefer a character constantly moving forward, maturing and progressing into what he should be doing. You don't see Stark working at Radio Shack do you?
“Now faith, hope, and love remain, and the greatest of these is love.”--1 Corinthians 13:13
“You had a dream; I have a plan”--Cyclops
“There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.”--The Doctor
Depends what your definition of ‘young’ is
This is a person who has been married, published a novel, been on trial for murder, fathered a child, got a doctorate and both ran and destroyed a global company. You can’t say that person is still 25.
If you do, look to his peer group. Are Harry or Flash or Betty written like early 20s people ?
i think it's even moreso the idea that a bleeding memory can be objective that finally killed poor old pav
and my two cents as a creator: reboots are cleaner. i'd do what the cartoons do and start a whole new take every few years.
but, you can't reboot spidey without a universe wide reboot.
as a reader though, i can see why so many would want to hold on to decades long continuity. i guess it makes them feel like all those stories "matter" more and there's maybe some level of comfort in dipping back into the same well every month for 30 years.
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I dunno, As long as you ignore the clone saga and body swapping shenanigans of Superior Spider-Man I don't think his history is all that complicated.
If they DID do a hard reboot though, then they better hard reboot the entire Marvel Universe, not just Spider-Man. He's too connected to the other superhero characters to reset and not have any effect on their previous adventures together.
Dude, it's just comics, you need to chill or quit reading.
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Let's see:
New Ways To Die, American Son, Shed, Grim Hunt, Big Time, No One Dies, Spider-Island, maybe Ends of the Earth, Dying Wish (though I guess that counts as Superior), Spider-Verse, Worldwide. And that's only in the main ASM. Outside of that, there's been stuff like Flash Thompson Venom, Scarlet Spider Kaine, Spider-Man 2099, Spider-Gwen, etc. that have all been awesome as well.