Re: Amazing Spider-Man series discussion (spoilers)
Yes, OMD was not a particularly good story. It is, however, of the same quality as most Spidey (or Marvel) stories for the last decade. It is better than the Clone Saga, for example. Very few people are being reasonable, instead *****ing about continuity repercussions which, outside the comic book world, is an alien concept.
I think the difference between this and say the clone saga (I can finally judge this as I read it to day , I have mixed feelings so I'll say i'm neutral on this) is as follows
The Clone saga started out as a great idea , It started strong , It gave us the Scarlet Spider who if you like him or not was very popular to the point of each game when people think Alternate costume this is always requested. It gave us some great twists and things like peter not knowing if he was real.
Sadly by the end of the clone saga it turned to **** , the dragged it out to far to the point where a lot of fans myself included just gave up on it , had it of ended sooner it would of been a great story.
This was hyped up as been the genesis if you will of a new direction/new way of evolving the charracter and then it came out and it is really bad from the get go , the cool new villains we were promised are just bad.
The fact it is called NEW day and yet everything is making it like the OLD stuff should be false advertising , The way this was handled from the get go has disappointed me , They could have done this much better. Here is some examples
Webshooters - Ok I love having him get these again BUT they could have like I suggested earlier upon hearing this gone the route of Spider-man 3 , He is worried about Aunt may's death ect.. to the point it causes his powers to **** up and he looses organic webbing on his own. then gets his old web shooters , given us something like him trying to get use to using them again.
Marriage / unmasking / villains - Don't agree with getting rid of it BUT if they had to they could have done it so much better E.g Kill Mary jane off. I know that will not be the popular idea but hear me out
They could have used this to help the comic out , Take a villain we've not seen much of or when we have they been a joke say shocker or Electro , Now they know who Spider-man is have that villain kill M.J
This puts the villain on the map in a huge way if they do not un-do the death , Say shocker has got improved shock gloves or has been training and studying fighting making him , more deadly , new costume and then killing Mary Jane he becomes A list , I'm talking green goblin A list
This then makes spider-man find a way to undo the unmasking like the iron man excuse. Having another big villain who knows who is and does not fall for the excuse used means they could really do some great stuff with him
I might not be explaining that idea very well but I hope you get my point , and in handling it the way I said they don't **** up the time lines of like every comic they have , they don't need to do the "ooooh it's magic" thing and could go a new way
Aunt may , let her die. Have peter deal with these emotions like he did with Uncle Ben and Gwen. Let him get in to a dark place for a while , while he morns.
Why not have him hook up with Black cat in a relation ship we know is doomed but he pretty much uses her to feel better and him deal with that , that would still be better than magic bull ****.
but this is only my opinion
