The reboot stories are good, the path they chose to get to this point sucks. I'm not a big Spidey fan, but I still have an opinion if a story is shitty, and I've read better fan-fic than these "professionals" produced with OMD.
to me the story seems like the same old tired concept. It really wasn't much of a reboot. Oh they think Spiderman murdered the Spider mugger....oh poor Peter!
I am really digging Brand New Day...it's just that I do still feel the bitter taste of the goings-on in One More Day.
I feel that BND offers a light-hearted fun Spidey that we haven't seen since the early 80's and that is a welcome blast of iconic Spidey. I just can't say I like how we got here.
Originally Posted By: The New Adventures of Old PJP
to me the story seems like the same old tired concept. It really wasn't much of a reboot. Oh they think Spiderman murdered the Spider mugger....oh poor Peter!
Basically. They've pretty much just thrown away twenty years of character development.
Given that I didn't see very much character development after the marriage, just stunts, I don't see that as a big loss.
There was a brief period of time after the marriage where I thought the marriage worked. The writer (I think Roger Stern) wrote Peter and MJ as a more or less normal married young couple trying to adjust to their new lives. But then MJ became a supermodel, Peter a successful photographer, then the stunts started coming hard and fast.
After that, I didn't really see "character development," just periods of artificial angst followed by periods of artificial bliss where Peter and MJ were supposed to be the "perfect" married couple.
I don't know that they were ever supposed to be the "perfect" married couple. They've separated on more than one occasion and MJ has been the source of Peter's angst time and time again.
But while Peter's life hadn't done a 180 in the last twenty-plus years, it had moved by a few degrees. Now we're back to the Peter of the 1980s, and while twenty years of storylines haven't been erased, any and all effects they had has been.
No wonder most people don't take comic books seriously.
I don't know that they were ever supposed to be the "perfect" married couple. They've separated on more than one occasion and MJ has been the source of Peter's angst time and time again.
That's what I meant by periods of artificial angst and periods of being "perfect." One year the editors would try and tell us that Peter and MJ were the prototypical perfect couple who were "destinied" to be together, the next they'd be breaking up over something.
It wasn't character development. It was the illusion of character development.
Peter's marriage isn't the only development that's happened over the last few decades, though.
Peter was no longer living under his aunt. He had moved on to a job as a professor at his old school. He'd felt the loss his best friend. He'd felt the loss of a baby.
No, they didn't refer to all those things in every issue or storyline, but it was apparent that over the years Peter had gotten older. Anyone who read the comic book faithfully could tell that he'd progressed through life. True, it was all about angst, but his angst was at least older adult angst. Now, he's back in Aunt May's house, no rent, no wife. He's living the same old just-outta-high-school life he had waaaaay back when. They have, without stating a number, de-aged the character.
Peter's marriage isn't the only development that's happened over the last few decades, though.
Peter was no longer living under his aunt.
Peter kept moving in and out of Aunt May's house throughout the sixties and seventies. Again, the illusion of chracter of development.
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He had moved on to a job as a professor at his old school.
Peter getting "real" jobs wasn't uncommon back then either. In fact, I think he had a couple of teaching gigs during that time.
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He'd felt the loss his best friend.
People dying on Peter, or any other comic book character, is hardly growth.
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He'd felt the loss of a baby.
For, I dunno, about six issues.
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No, they didn't refer to all those things in every issue or storyline, but it was apparent that over the years Peter had gotten older. Anyone who read the comic book faithfully could tell that he'd progressed through life. True, it was all about angst, but his angst was at least older adult angst. Now, he's back in Aunt May's house, no rent, no wife. He's living the same old just-outta-high-school life he had waaaaay back when. They have, without stating a number, de-aged the character.
Regression.
I understand your point but, as discussed above, Marvel's been progressing and regressing Peter back and forth at since Gwen died.
This may be the most blatant example but I would still submit that Marvel's never really progressed his character consistently since at least the first few years of the marriage.
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