One thing I noticed with some of his moments that are supposed to be funny is how characters may be awkwardly say something to get to the punchline lol.
The older I get, the less I'm willing to put up with whatever or bad dialogues, and that makes it a lot harder to read silver age comic books, and Slott's dialogue when it's bad, it's a different kind of bad, but still bad.
A lot of times, so do I...
Remember that time Byrne tried to connect Spidey's origin with Otto's, and the accident gave a bunch of other people powers too? Spidey neglected that, and a hacky story can say it's his fault for whatever those people did, since they'll probably be villains
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If this is right and it's something stupid like Spidey cloning MJ, then it's time to quit this franchise lol.
He might be even more pathetic than Alex thinking of it lol.
Like, at least Alex was grieving over Madelyne being dead and he's overjoyed she's back, if Spidey is being too annoying to MJ while she's alive and seemingly fine, yeah...
Now keep in mind that I'm not saying Havok isn't pathetic, he didn't have much of a personality beyond "muh Maddie", having supressed anger and wanting to leave the team, just pointing out that Spidey might be more pathetic than that guy, which's depressing.
Ben's development in Beyond also mirrors Madelyne's in Hellion's, with both of them being basically ignored, abandoned, getting butthurt over it and becoming evil, and in hindsight, it was probably intentional to make 'em have more in common so they can team-up for Dark Web.
Difference is that with Madelyne, it's using what was already established in the past (Although the original story has its problems too, and it gets even worse if you know that she got fucked over like this 'cause Marvel was dismissive of her 'cause she was just a Jean replacement made into a clone), with Ben it's kinda changing the past for this to "make sense", his way of going evil is somehow more contrived and nonsensical than Madelyne's, even in the original way it happened.
Like, writers repeating themselves can be fine-ish, even good writers may have patterns, or outright repetitions, but they may manage to compensate these flaws with execution being better somewhere else, and from what I'm hearing of Wells' run, he's, not doing any of that.
He should plagiarize Slott next.
Yeah that's the part of him sounding stupid lol.
Like even heroes who are willing to give a second chance to villains by being compassionate have to be smart about it, can't go around forgiving everyone, some people just don't deserve it, and even some who could use some sympathy, can't be allowed to run around causing destruction.
By his standards, the MJ undermining in Beyond was rather subtle, specially in the early issues lol.
What she does in those is, be worried about Spidey and looking at a window, be a bitch to Ben, and not realize that Ben calling her isn't Spidey (Which, looks worse when another writer has Miles of all people tell Spidey and Ben apart).
So, again, by his standards:
(Venom: Dark Origin#4)
(Avenging Spider-Man#11)
Beyond MJ's undermining was tame, not that it means it wasn't bad, but it's really not as noticeable, specially for those who aren't fans, or those who aren't aware of the ways she gets undermined.
Is that a thing with BND writers? Because Slott also has a problem with forcing characters into situations lol.
Like, yeah, I understand prefering characters in a specific emotion, like how Daredevil writers like to make Matt miserable, but there's a time and place for those things, and Spidey just isn't someone to stay miserable for too long, he's an emotional character but not to this extent.
To be fair, I'm more willing to blame that on X-Office, ever since Hickman left they quickly exaggerated her personality to become more cartoonish evil (And it doesn't help that Hickman himself planted the seeds for that nonsense in Inferno), during X Deaths of Wolverine#2 she killed a cashier for the sake of making sure he doesn't talk about her (Which's stupid since a murder would only attract attention), and then in #4 she skinned Banshee.
It only got worse afterwards, since X-Men vol 6 had her deciding to join Orchis (Which ignores how they kidnapped her in Inferno to begin with), and then that Free Comic Book Day Avengers comic, and Gala, had her acting like a cartoonish, dumbass villain.
Now, he could have done something with Moira, but Percy didn't bother in X Deaths of Wolverine and quickly exaggerated her personality, and Duggan only characterized her as cartoonish villain, and hell, in AXE, Gillen hasn't done anything to give her any other traits too (Though she hasn't shown up much and didn't do anything besides wanting mutants dead and bitching when the Eternals failed), but anyways, her bad characterization is more of a problem in X-Office, and again, Wells could have done more, but I can understand why he wouldn't bother if no one else does, specially when he's not writing a non X-Men comic (Even if apparently ASM#9 vol 6 is basically "Amazing Wolverine" like you said once lol).
Yeah, and since Spencer's run she's allowed to be mature again, which can mean she's more willing to move on from Spidey.
Now the question is who'll be eaten/killed first between Paul's kids and Betty's baby :P.
Just be ready for the possibility, Wells is an edgelord, he did that kind of nonsense before, he may try it again lol.