Quote Originally Posted by TinkerSpider View Post
I’ll give you the Robbie and gang war stuff

But the rest is the stupid version of mystery box. The characters fully know well what happened and why they are in the situations they are in. It’s not suspenseful to them. The only ones in the dark are the readers.

It’s dishonest storytelling, IMO. It’s wholly manufactured artificial tension because the actual story doesn’t have much. It’s the sign of a creative team who aren’t confident that the story they want to tell is strong enough to stand on its own without dangling “oh noes what happened?!??!” in front of the reader to get them to buy the next issue.
Most stories do that. Ned Stark knew exactly what happened in Game of Thrones, but he didn't immediately run around and tell everyone everything which created suspenseful for the situations for the reader who did know. Like Peter Balish and Caitlin stark had a relationship in the past that created tension for other characters and the reader. Obviously Paul didn't know peter had "bills, bills bills..." due so at least in the text he didn't know something the reader didn't know too. As far as we know Spiderman blew up a building but why and how is that affecting Peter's pockets.