depending on the work/school setting, there are legions of folks who aren't around anymore, their initial usefulness decided by writers and editors and understandably each successive writer wants to not "have to" include everyone before their tenure starts. so at this point..
in some cases, people would have to be given new jobs.. or old jobs.. etc.
Glory Grant reappeared as a mayoral chief of staff after being gone from the strips for many years (and of course, why would she show up at TriCorp or some of these other work settings that weren't the Bugle?)
There's stuff Lee did well that no one was able to replicate. He made sure that everyone was connected, so that Gwen's dad is friends with Robbie & Jonah, that Mary Jane can often be found whenever Anna Watson visits May, that Flash Thompson will go to yell at J. Jonah Jameson, that Betty Brant & Liz Allen will get catty with one another, or that Norman Osborn would be in the same social club as Jonah.
Later supporting casts do have the problem of keeping with the earlier one, when the reality is that people change and lose touch with individuals they saw very regularly. But writers do seem to assume we're going to care about new characters just because they work with Peter, or go to school with him. And when that setting changes, those characters go away.
Granted, it would be pretty easy to bring back old characters for one storyline, either connected to an A-plot, or just showing up for a party.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
No love for Yuri Watanabe?
I had hoped that her appearance in the Playstation Spider-Man game would've sparked her return to the comics, but it didn't.
She's technically appearing currently, but it's in the Gwen Stacy book set in the past. I'd much rather see her present version return. Either as a regular supporting cast role of a police officer or back as her superhero persona, wraith.
#EmmaWasRight
Spencer would write the hell out of Yuri.
I don't blind date I make the direct market vibrate
See this type of list on a Spiderman forum and I have to include Cardiac. He's a hero that represents some much wasted opportunities not just for as an individual character but to expand the Spiderverse without having to keep making spidey dupes.
Definitely, especially given his motivation, which is rather relevant even today as the public at large has become more aware of how corporations abuse the influence and power accrued via their wealth to almost literally get away with murder by manipulating the law(s) in their own favor and thus leaving those they hurt with no legal recourse to redress the wrongs committed against them.
The spider is always on the hunt.
Yeah, it gets into a lot of interesting questions. Especially if he makes a bad call (IE- goes after a company's board for rejecting a medication, unaware that the cause was completely justified.)
She seems to have disappeared when May's life gets more interesting. When May knew Peter's secret identity, she could be a bigger part of Peter and MJ's stories, so Anna was no longer as necessary. Jonah Sr was obviously a character May interacted with a lot, but even when that wasn't in the book post-OMD, May was more active in charities, which could be tied to Spider-Man's adventures.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets