Dr.Strangefate said:
I completely agree...
Hopefully after 100 he spends a year just developing the characters he's got...
How about an arc where he's just literally being ripped between his responsibilities, and then Aunt May finds out, and the whole ordeal brings them together again as a family?
Or how about more issues like #13 where it is ONLY character development?? Not like a whole arc of that, but a few character deepening issues?
Good call. Even in the issues I feel that Bagley isn't telling a story through his art as much as he could. This is not his fault. Stories can't be told through images without an amount of emotion or feeling from certain characters. With all of the poorly executed flashbacks and fighting going on I don't see where Bagley can show off.
Speaking of showing off, what was it Bendis usually got praised for back in the day? Eh, character, was it? Dialogue? Hmm... This seems to have perished from the pages of this title and, if only he spent some time with the characters individually, we'd get a better quality. Like, I don't remember the last time we had any real interaction between May and Peter... REAL interaction. I definitely agree with you, Strangefate, that there should be more May in this title. I may not agree with you that she should find out about Peter being Spider-Man, but I would like to see her have more of a role. Peter is not the only victim of late... May has to have an opinion about Gwen dying, Harry turning into a beast, and MJ and Peter splitting. Not to mention, she needs to consider where she stands after that therapy session. There are a whole mess of things Bendis can do with these characters, but he turns them into Hob-Goblins or decides to kill them... Hold on, better yet, he gives them away to be a lackey of the Kingpin's... Great, Bendis...
