Quote Originally Posted by Snoop Dogg View Post
Spider-Man already died and was gone for like 16 months.
And there were no spider books during that time? Don't be daft. The topic was killing dead wood, which implies basically cancelling off the character, not doing a clever switch to another book only to have him come back at its conclusion.

No, not really.
Micky Mouse is the face of Disney. And part of an entirely different medium and genre with its own set of rules and tropes. The comparison doesn't work.

Spider-Man (any of them) is one of many parts of the larger universe.
Sure, and Batman isn't the face of DC. Lets pretend Marvel doesn't have its icons or household names, and the continuity is all that matters. Cool story bro.

On top of that, Marvel killing off Peter Parker would be a cheap marketing thing. He'd be gone for a few months the we'd get something stupid like "Return of Peter Parker: a 6 part mini-series" turning into a new #1 of one of the Spider-Man books. There would be no question about whether or not Peter would be back, just how dumb his method of not being dead would be.
That's not killing off dead wood then, is it? That's just leveraging valuable IP to sell more books.