Spider-Man has been a punching bag from the start. The Ditko era constantly had Spidey's public image taking a trashing and the Torch/Spidey relationship started with Johnny always being the golden boy celebrity hero that everyone loved while Spider-Man was the creepy threat and/or menace that was always fouling up.
Yes, darn those modern writers.
Oh wait.
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When people complain about Marvel writers making characters flawed, I have to wonder if they've ever actually read Marvel. These characters were created with feet of clay. The whole thing that made Marvel unique is that its character
were deeply flawed.
"Been forever?" Those stories are still told ALL THE TIME. Whether it be Peter actually returning from the dead to prove himself the true Superior Spider-Man (
literally displaying his never-say-die spirit) to leading a multi-verse of Spider people in Spider-verse to taking on global threats like Zodiac (during the course of which he survived a freaking plummet from space) to routing the plans of a Symkaria-aligned Norman Osborn, Spidey's doing ok for himself.
It's not like he's begging for help against the return of the Kangaroo.
Does he come off a little too goofy in Z'Darsky's SSM? I think so. But I also don't think it's nearly as bad as some are acting.