Originally Posted by
Xenon
I don't want to drag this too far astray, but the comparisons to 700 are amazing. How much BETTER this was than Dying Wish is shocking. I mean, I always thought Dying Wish sucked, but seeing the same basic idea executed over a year earlier in such a superior manner (pun not intended) really puts it into perspective. Dying Wish upset me because it treated what should have been a momentous occasion into a page before a full page splash advertising the next series. They didn't just kill Spider-Man but they killed him in such a weak lightweight way. The important moment when he really lost isn't even shown to us as it happens, it's just a flashback. The fight isn't a knock down drag out epic brawl with five of his greatest foes, it's one meager attempt to switch back while they fall out of a window. He gets a PAGE to show his death that is immediately followed up by a declaration that's essentially just a Superior Spider-Man advertisement. It took what I already thought was a stupid idea and made it that much less appealing because the appropriate weight wasn't given to what happened. It doesn't MATTER that he was always going to come back, the story they were telling then was one of his death, and the story doesn't seem to care.