well a good ongoing title would be a nice start
well a good ongoing title would be a nice start
I don't blind date I make the direct market vibrate
Well said.SM was the first SH book I started reading. And I honestly liked him in the 90's mature 20 something guy taking care of all that matters in life and building a life with MJ. Who wasn't just his 'wife' but his partner. I haven't touched the book since, especially with Slott as writer. I don't know how Nick Spencer is.
But I just don't have the stomach to read about a manchild. I get enough of that in real life.
That is the problem with comic books now. When Act 1 takes 58 issues, roughly 5 dollars a pop, and you have to pay over $290 to get a story that would have been told in roughly three old comic books, you are taking the nose of the plane and driving it right into the ground. Plus, the story was Peter starting over again. How many times have we seen that? Ad nauseam.
Miles being played as a “teenager” is a disservice to his character. It just means that people don’t care about Miles.
OMD is the straw that broke the camels back. The whole thing is tangled in retcons and faked deaths and so forth and so forth. To fix it even slightly - yes, OMD needs to be properly addressed and moved on from. Aunt May needs to die to advance the plot and add a layer we never had before.
The biggest layer to the mythos in so many years (probably since Venom) is Miles. He adds a whole new dynamo to Peters world and allows Peter to age up.
The thing about Miles is that he would have been big and become big regardless of OMD. He originated in Ultimate Spider-Man and I think it's pretty damning that no creation or concept in the Post-OMD Spider-Man has made as big an impact as Miles, from an AU series that originated during the married era.
ITSV proves that Miles works very well as a foil to a married Spider-Man.
I've accepted Spider-Man is what it is a fun but ultimately meaningless ride in which nothing much will ever change or progress for long before a reset. I'm no longer emotionally invested in the characters and I really haven't been since OMD. But I do like a good mindless adventure story to distract from the horrors of this world.
While I enjoyed 80% of it, I was disappointed by the lackluster ending of Last Remains, I'd be lying if I said otherwise.
Last edited by Celgress; 02-15-2021 at 03:27 PM.
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