Quote: Wednesday said: I can't say I've been reading since the 60's, but I have been reading for quite a while, and I think JMS is a breath of fresh air. The guy is helping put The Amazing Spider-Man back on the map.
The readership has increased since JMS took over. People are consistently reading his run, and people are consistently buying his run. Readers are interested. That's the measure of a comic book's success, not whether or not it falls in line with every ideal.
You can argue that "nothing succeeeds like success."
However, making a comic book, or anything, profitable in the short term, at the expense of sustained or long term growth, is only a "good thing" if you don't care about the quality of the item in the future.
It's one thing to be against being "stuck in the 60s." It's another to applaud writers who do serious, and perhaps permanent, damage to longstanding appealing aspects of a character in order to generate short term interest.
