Bye Bye Amazing

[liliaeth]

I just sent a message to Marvel Customer services, asking them to transfer any remaining issues of my subscription to Amazing Spider-Man to Amazing Spider-Girl.

I love Spidey, but I will not be giving money to them, just to ruin Spider-Man with a huge retcon. Just like I would have stopped watching Buffy or Angel, if they'd made Spike evil again, I will not keep supporting Marvel if they undo the Spider-Man marriage.

Esp. with some big reboot.

Single Spidey was good in it's time, twenty years ago. They were nice stories then. But if there's one thing that Mackie's stories have taught me, it's that I have no interest to see Peter start dating again. I'm not interested in seeing Peter date anyone but MJ.

Sure, Pete dating Kitty in Ultimate Spider-Man was one thing, but that's Ultimate Peter, he's only 15, 16 at most. Regular 616 Spidey on the other hand is 32 years old. 616 Peter has been thinking about marrying since he was 15. He thought of marrying Betty Brant, he thought of marrying Gwen, MJ, Felicia and ended up married to MJ.

Why in gods name would you want to deny something that is as huge a part of the character as that?

Once again, the guy thought of marrying Felicia while they were dating, even before he revealed his true identity to her. That's how much he wants to be married!!!

And not just that, erasing the marriage comes at the price of erasing twenty years of continuity. Isn't it bad enough when DC did it?

Is it really that much fun to be reading any dc book, when you can't even be remotely sure how much of continuity still counts and what's been changed?
And now we're going to get the same kind of crap with Spidey, where none of the past issues matter anymore, because Quesada thinks that most of the fans are kids and would find an adult Spider-Man 'too old'.

Crap!

And I'm not willing to pay them another € until Peter's back with MJ.

That and I really really really wanted them to explore the unmasking, why can't they just let us enjoy an unmasked Spidey for a while, they barely even set a foot in the ocean of stories that the unmasking offered, and now they're already going to undo it?

Once again, utter and absolute crap.

So bye bye Amazing, I'll be spending my money on Mayday Parker and her adventures under the guidance of her dad, the REAL Spider-Man.

Comments

[htbthomas.livejournal.com]

Amen.

[ciardhapagan.livejournal.com]

Fabian Nicieza told me over 5 years ago that it's official Marvel policy that no marriages with characters ever work out- that permanent relationships (not just marriages, but committed couples too) are "boring". That's the mindset. I was writing to him annoyed about Marvel, yet again screwing around with Gambit and Rogue, trying to break them up again. Even if a writer isn't adverse to permanent relationships with characters and writes it well, if he (almost all the writers, editors, etc... at Marvel are male- and yes this does play a signifigant part in why they find permanent relationships "boring") doesn't want to break up a relationship that Quesada is "bored of" that writer gets fired for a new writer who will end the relationship. The only thing that saves characters is often fandom uproar. Angry letters and a big sales slump will bring a fan favorite couple back together.

The Marvel mindset is random short term pairings, the more characters that sleep with one another the better. They think they are writing for horny 12 year old boys too young to buy Playboy.

[liliaeth]

Yet they write scenes in their books that no mother would let their kids read if they saw it... Honestly, the majority of the fans are over 18, yet that seems to be ignored. That and that stupid boring, idea that relationships are boring. To these men it seems like the only interesting bit about a woman is the chase, and that's annoying as hell. Esp. if you've read comics for longer than two years.

Quesada's idiocy in these matters just annoys the hell out of me.