Originally Posted by
Lukmendes
Agreed, the way Spectacular handled the cast and villains was more interesting.
Reminds me of one problem I have with Spectacular, how nobody points out how much of a colossal hypocrite Gwen is, she says she doesn't want to be Peter's second choice, then she starts to date Harry, her second choice, yeah...
Honestly kinda miss the old Venom, he uses the same idea as Green Goblin knowing Spidey's identity, but in a more interesting way.
Of course, just like Norman, this would get old after a while, even if better, so I can understand why they changed him.
Worth pointing out that stuff that comes later have the privilege of knowing what works, so Spectacular being better than Ultimate, or Venom being more interesting than Norman before he was resurrected (For me at least), they can pick what was popular from the original, and just keep the more interesting stuff.
Spider-Ma sounds funny
Either way, Otto under Slott is weird yeah, in one story he's eviller than ever, Ends of the Earth, what he planned was even bigger than that time he wanted to nuke New York because of a pissing context with Owl, trying to make him sympathetic after that? Come on... While Slott has the decency to kinda keep him as a villain (Kinda?), other characters sound too forgiving of him, specially Peter (ASM#1 vol 3 has Peter sounding thankful of Otto for the company and for making aunt May not limp anymore, even though the bad outweights the good... The ****?).
It felt like a forced way to show that Miles is worthy as a successor, his Venom Blast just fucks over Norman that easily, to show how powerful he is, and Peter says he's good to continue the fight, and then Peter just leaves? This is bad fanfiction level of writing.
Not exactly, you already knew, and like I said, I told people about it that he came back and the reaction was that surprise and somewhat annoyance, and I specified that because the initial reaction being that kinda shows they thought it was questionable at least, so yeah, not sure if disliking his resurrection is controversial.