Originally Posted by
Lukmendes
It's actually funny that Brubaker remembered that BT is supposed to be super tough, since in Daredevil Annual#1 vol 2, Dakota says he's stronger than Spidey... But that became an informed attribute, 'cause in ASM, Spidey lasting longer against BT in the second fight only meant that he didn't get beaten up that bad, but was still clearly losing... Meanwhile in Daredevil he's, there, sometimes he fights well lol.
The idea of him becoming good is fine, problem is how they did it, since the story makes it look like he decided to do honorable shit now, when he had done so before, it ignores his ASM background (To the point he sold drugs in the Daredevil retcons, when he specifically was against them in ASM lol).
Of course, comics are comics, details won't match up that much, specially nowadays since they don't even bother to keep the previous version of the story in mind, but the whole problem I have with Daredevil's BT is that, his personality isn't even 10% as interesting as that awesome guy from ASM.
The problem is managing to make the mesh work, the differences between ASM BT and Daredevil BT are almost as big as Peter as Spider-Man, and Otto as Spider-Man, a lot of traits are really not compatible lol.
I mean, potential is cool, but ultimately I'm not going to like a story more for having it if it's never used, and Araņa is a huge case of wasted potential, but there's still cool shit there.
While making her deal with magic villains is a good idea, it's better to have themes and limits, somewhat, to avoid situations where Anya ends up doing something like punching Undra in the face, and winning.
Plus it's also worth wondering how Anya would even use magic if she were to get her powers back, 'cause even back in Araņa, she had this magic that is explicitly said to be stronger than Miguel's magic powers, but even then her fighting style was still a brawler at its basic, and it didn't really seem like other hunters deviated from that, so what should be done? Her still being a brawler dealing with magic? Or get a few spells of her own to deal with magic? And if she gets magic powers, what kind? Something straight forward like web shaped tendrils? Or get some magic power that is unusual for a spider?
Maybe just the Carapace and the Hunter power up are enough to set her apart, but if she's gonna be the "Magic Spider", maybe something else could be given, but not go too far, 'cause just like Peter with gadgets and weird webbing, magic can go out of control really quickly with the kind of shit characters can get.
Anyways, when it comes to expanding mythos, I would prefer Ewing's approach, Cates' approach with Symbiote is essentially "Knull is behind everything", while Ewing does something similar, but there's more going on to his retcons than "TOBA is behind everything".
I'd say the difference is that Knull is more restrictive since he has to be involved in everything that defined symbiotes (The evilness? Knull. Their weaknesses? Knull), while TOBA is used to explain important elements behind Gamma beings, but there's still enough room for stuff that isn't his doing.
Also for Sisterhood of Wasp, shit man, they need something, we don't even know what their hunter does since the fucker was in a coma all the time, plus they worked together with Spider Society once upon a time, but separated 'cause of different morals or whatever, but maybe something more could be added? 'Cause we could get cool possibilities, like say, is there a Wasp god somewhere that they worship who wants to kill/replace the Great/Master/Whatever Weaver? Or maybe to make them be more than "Evil Spider-Society", there isn't one, but maybe they want to make one? (Specially considering that Great Weaver may have been Anansi, a human, originally, and while Great Weaver is pretty much retgone, Master Weaver has essentially no divinity too, as he's just Karn, pretty much a lab made vampire, watching over the Web of life, so "making a god" in a way isn't far fetched) Maybe they could even have a more scientific angle for some stuff, 'cause mix of magic and science can be interesting.
If we're going for grudges to make a character an archnemesis, I think that Nina Smith chick is a better candidate, since she has the original Hunter powers, blames Anya for Miguel's death, and specifically is taking a darker path because she's butthurt Miguel died, she also said something about Anya only returning a power that was rightfuly hers, so I wouldn't be surprised if she was pissed at Anya for stealing the power too, and there's a lot of potential here for her to be a foil/evil counterpart or whatever, June by comparison had the potential power she could get from that Terrigen Coccoon "stolen" by Anya, which while still enough to piss her off, it's way less personal than Nina.
Not saying June wouldn't work as a good villain, or even as recurring villain, just that I feel Nina has more potential as an archnemesis.