Originally Posted by
Coop
Having reoccurring villains is definitely a feature not a bug.
Regarding winning fights vs losing fights. As with everything else the execution matters more than the scenario. You can write stories where Spider-Man gets help, struggles, loses, wins by the skin of his teeth, or stomps the villain. The issue with Wells is, imo, he does it in a lazily written way that makes Peter seem incompetent rather than the villain seeming powerful. They needed him to use the Osborn suit for a new costume for marketing/toys/whatever, so he gets beaten around and screams and cries for the suit on the phone.
The story takes for granted a lot of things and doesn't show the work. It's true in the plots, the character relationships, and the fights. For me at least, it's not simply "Peter no beat villain comic bad"