Quote: zahl said: Let me say I don't buy the whole business of Gwen succumbing to Norman's charms either.
But I have a question for you, G-Man.
If Gwen had a "moment" with Flash or Harry, would it have bothered you as much? Given all of Peter's activities---the Bugle, Spider-Man, and the fact that Gwen had no idea of about the webslinging, and the fact that Flash and Harry were friends of hers, is it totally out of the realm of possibility that she may have sought comfort with one of them and then regretted it later?
Yea.... if she was a slut!
Quote: MisterJLA said:
Uhh...no... the problem is solved (for me anyway) when I stop giving the dumbshits who can't write to save their lives my money.
This states my view as well, JLA.
I'm very careful what I buy these days because I've been disappointed with so much of what I've read in comics over the last 15 years. I don't want to contribute anywhere from $2.95 to $100.00 per copy to encourage the kind of excessively dark over-the-top/shock-value crud that smothers the comics market these days.
A poster on the DC boards a couple of years ago, Nine Pound Hammer, in discussing Frank Miller's DARK KNIGHT STRIKES BACK series as representative of an ongoing trend, called it "intellectually urinating on characters we all grew up with".
Most of the writers in comics now think that doing depraved things to well-known characters is some kind of great innovation, instead of the tired replacement for true creativity that it really is.
My local comic shop guy told me it gets even worse for the Spiderman mythos:
Apparently, one of the Bold New Visionary Writers at Marvel plans to introduce a revelation that Uncle Ben sexually molested Peter Parker.
To the editors at Marvel: What the HELL are you thinking ?!?
I'll continue NOT buying this Bold New Excrement as well.
