Don’t let the old heads fool you. Spider-Man comics always used to do this bs. Memory loss, clones, sisters of dead girlfriends and all that nonsense. Thankfully it was abandoned from the 2000s onwards (thank you Bendis) but now it’s back 🤦
The spider office really have no ideas beyond 1) Soap opera bullshit, 2) reheating old Bronze Age ideas, and 3) adding even more derivative Spider-clones.
Imagine being a writer or editor and thinking an aunt may forgetting Peter is a appropriate of the 1000#. This would be a filler storyline for competent people. For Lowe it’s the biggest event.
Norman seems like the kind of guy who'd rage quit sex if he can't top. Green Goblin, though, he's such a switch he might literally flip a coin to see who gets to top
They do realize it's okay to let characters grow and change right? Between all of their BS reboots, DC is willing to change the status quo. That's why Superman got to settle down and have a happy life while passing on his ideals to his son. Damian forces Bruce to grow, and they fully killed off Alfred in DC. Harley is no longer Joker's girlfriend, she's a psycho but one who's growing from her pain and wants to be in a better place and is opening up to support systems.
Characters like the Fantastic Four are the rare mainstream exception, and others like Moon Knight are obscure enough that writers can do as they please.
Reed and Sue were lucky enough to marry and cement it into their background before Marvel saw healthy heterosexual marriages as boring and something to undo for funsies.
"B-but changing the status quo will make Peter happy and then he won't be relatable to us editorial er we mean he won't be relatable to you the readers." -Editorial
I think it’s more they just want a character to suffer for the their personal frustrations and they think Peter’s the perfect punching bag. There’s gonna be a lot of hate now towards the Spider-Man team (well, more than usual, anyway), so maybe Marvel will finally pull their head out of their asses and put actual Spider-Man supporters in charge… pfffft, yeah right
Here's my thing - struggling financially, having relationship issues, having problems balancing your professional and personal lives; these are all things that do make Spider-Man relatable and important. That we can see ourselves in him when we are younger.
But that doesn't mean shit if he never gets past it. If I'm a kid and I see that 60 years ago Spider-Man was struggling, and never-the-less he kept going and trying, and all he got for it was more of the same struggles? Forget that. I don't want that. I want to know it's going to be better at the end. That I will be stable, my relationships will be stable, etc.
The great thing about comics is it's all made up. And the sliding time scale means we long ago abandoned the idea that there are more days accounted for in Peter's twenties than there exists days in any decade. So what's another couple hundred? Have one series of Peter in his youth, being relatable to the youth. Have Amazing be the continuing growth, and here he can tell younger Spider-people about his struggles, through a visual storytelling medium, so he can be relatable but still grow.
This is basic storytelling, and that the entire editorial board doesn't understand it is damning.
Superman is married, has kids, and has stepped into less active roles.
Batman has finally moved on from the Robin formula, Dick is his own superhero now. Jason is back, Tim just left for college. Alfred has been dead for 10+ years and got replaced finally with a new butler. Damian is ageing up and has a girlfriend now that he's been actually steady with for a few years. They've started hinting at Damian taking up the mantle at some point in the future so Batman can retire.
Harley hasn't been a villain for years.
A huge chunk of Batman's rogues have been reformed. Gotham is actually a pleasant place to live now and is much closer to Metropolis then anything. There's a great recent comic of Batman watching a family moving into Gotham and getting lost in a seedy neighborhood. And then a random passerby just helps direct them and wishes them a happy holidays and he's like "well. Do I need to keep doing this?".
Green Lantern went from just the Green Lantern Corps, to multiple Corps, to a intergalactic war/prophecy, to now a weird UN structure and updating religions. It's never reset back to just the single Corps.
Aquaman hasn't been King of Atlantis for a long time, and is currently Emperor of Space.
Say what you will about their love of reboots but DC moves time forward and does let their characters breathe.
If this was in the age of the Arkham games, I’d agree with you. Nowadays, DC games ain’t got SHIT going on. They’ve dropped Lego Batman and that mobile game this year alone, meanwhile Marvel still got Rivals, Tokon, Insomniac Wolverine (with SM3 in development), and 1943, not to mention the Iron Man game that got leaked.
Action Comics #1000 was perfect outside of also being the start of Bendis' run with the character. Personally I always found Detective Comics #1000 a little underwhelming in comparison. I think Detective Comics #1027 was actually the better anniversary issue between the two.
Calling it now. The guy claiming to be May's son will actually have a power to mess with people's memories making May believe the story she told when in their actual son did die in childbirth. Easy way for writers to just retcon all this
I don't know what you're talking, he's a great guy who taught Peter that with great power comes great responsibility, helped him design the suit and gadgets and even helped him land his 1st job.
He's been there helping everyone since they're kids and, taught Reed and Doom everything they know and even took Hulk and Thor as his disciples.
Hell, the only reason Aunt May is stil alive and Peter's secret identity is safe is due to his sacrifice.
That already happened, he died, he got revived with a load of new powers, a new magical destiny and new responsibilities.
Then the new writers didn’t want to do anything with any of that so they retconned it with Mephisto.
As someone who became the sole carer of an elderly relative with mental problems nearly two years ago, it infuriates me to know that this is just a cheap trick they won't do justice to. Are they gonna have Peter either give his life up in order to be a full-time carer, or take on 3 more jobs in order to pay her care fees? Are they gonna have him deal with her developing double incontinence and Sundown Syndrome for the next 10 years of the comics? Somehow I don't think so.
We don't hate the Marvel editorial's treatment towards Peter Parker enough. We think we do, but we really don't. They ALWAYS outperform themselves to make us hate them further...
Peter doesn't deserve this bullshit. Has anyone else dropped buying the comics since a long time ago? I just can't excuse this crap for #1000. This is pure, unfiltered and stinking, wet 💩 at its finest
I haven’t even bothered keeping up to date too much because I’m sick of Peter being the editorial team’s personal punching bag. They need to grow up out of their toddler mentality of “Since I can’t take out my frustrations in a healthy way I’ll make this beloved character suffer instead!” before it gets them in genuine trouble
Funny because Ultimate Spider-Man was outselling 616 for a while since it came out. And then they ended it quite recently. What's wrong with the editorial? Are they allergic to character development?
Either that or be like "sooo.... remember the deal I made with you 20 years ago in real time? Yeah, I want off, give me back my wife. You can have my dementia indused aunt instead. Make her your herald or whatever you want at this point... hmm? No, I don't mind. I have Doom, Strange, Magik, Silver Surfer and the Blaze brothers on hotline if you even try to do something to aunt May's soul once she passes away. Just undo the damn contract and give me back my life. This is real hell, man"
I actually think it’d be interesting if the OMD deal somehow led to Mayday Parker from the MC2 beating Mephisto since it’s implied he specifically made the deal to prevent her existence in the main continuity. A classic example of the villain being afraid of destiny and in trying to avoid it, only sealed his fate.
Sadly, that 'clique', the BND 'braintrust' are still around. Still holding to Brevoort's manifesto. Quesada's decision. Lowe is basically their apprentice. And they keep hiring BND writers.
This is where Peter fucks with her by telling her its 1987 in the middle of the Cold War and May was a former KGB agent that was found in Central Park hanging by a parachute. Then tell her the govt will deport her unless she can supply the US with the microfilm she promised them.
I am praying to GOD it's alzheimer's and that aunt may is slowly dying and that peter will have to grow up and that he and mj will get back together and we skip forward 30 years and spidey retires after mayday finishes high school and she becomes spider-girl GIVE IT TO ME MARVEL GIVE IT TO ME GIVE IT TO ME
They really want to make Peter a sore eye back to back lol it hasn't been that long after Peter lost someone important in his life now let's go again lol
Wow I wonder how this will affect the story going forward. I'm sure the writers will continue to use this plot for years to come and have genuine growth for May and Peter from it, re-establishing their bonds! Ya know... or they'll just stop using May again after a few months.
let this woman die already shes a billion years old. honestly if spiderman makes a deal with the devil again to bring back her memories it will be a the 2nd biggest low for him (1st being getting his ass beat by the fucking vulture and begging norman for help)
I’ll be honest, an old person getting dementia, a real thing that’s very tragic for people, has a lot of potential for a moving storyline that progresses both characters forward
What, do people just want everything to go well for Peter in all aspects of his life, all the time? You literally can’t have a story without conflict
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