Spider-Man Brand New Day (or more like outdated old crap made worse by bad writing)

[liliaeth]

Yep, still hating on BND. It's like it gets worse and worse with every issue.

When is Amazing finally going to bring back Peter Parker? I'm just so tired of seeing Nick Katzenberg and Eric O'Grady's lovechild starring in Spidey's book.

What is it about this smug arrogant, waste of space papparazi slime bag loser that some people seem to like so much? What is it about this unlikeable, arrogant childish immature idiot clearly suffering from a midlife crisis that's supposed to be so fun and entertaining?

Is it just me who reads comic books to read about heroes? Is it just me who doesn't want to read a comic book about an utter and total failure surrounded by one dimensional excuses for a supporting cast and lame and predictable pretenses at new villains who are just third rate copycats of established bad guys?

When I read the Peter Parker currently in Amazing, I feel embarrassed for the character. That might be because I hate reading or watching people make fools of themselves, but it's there nonetheless.

I love Spider-Man, always have, but the character using his name in Amazing, just isn't him, won't ever be him and has less in common with old Spidey than the guys in the Great Lake Initiative do.

Why is it that people like Slott pretend to love Spidey and then write him as if they despise the character and just want to show everyone else why this character is so disgusting? Why is it that these new Spider-Man writers seem to want to make a point of saying: "Jonah Jameson was right all along, Spider-Man is just an irresponsible menace and Peter Parker is a sleazy jerk who takes advantage of his boss' good nature."

Why is it that Jonah is the only likeable character in any of the issues of BND so far?

And if I see one more note about webbing being expensive, I'm going to find a way to finance a trip to the US, grab these writers by their ears, drag them into a room with all the issues of Spider-Man ever published and force them to read every last one of them. Because webbing is NOT expensive, has NEVER been expensive and was something both Peter and Ben Reilly were able to afford on a minimum wage.

End of rant.

Comments

[box-in-the-box.livejournal.com]

I have an extremely ugly suspicion that the current Spider-writers (and Quesada) are really writing him to be a character with whom THEY can identify.

And please tell me you're not paying any money for any of these issues.

[liliaeth]

And please tell me you're not paying any money for any of these issues.

Not in my life. I'm not that insane. I used to be subscribed to all Spider-Man related series and would buy any miniseries, now I'm saving money by not buying Amazing.

I'll check it out because I'm optimistic enough to believe they might someday improve. But I refuse to financially support something this atrociously bad.

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

You're more brave than I am. I've got them all sitting around but I've yet to get up the gumption to actually read them beyond the first few issues.

Your occasional posts on the subject aren't helping my apathy about the title.

I'm assuming the expense of web fluid is some odd reference to the current out of control fuel cost situation going on in the US where all of a sudden something we took for granted is a major part of our weekly budget, but beyond that...I've got nothing.

[liliaeth]

Nah, they don't think that far. The writers just seem to think that it's 'funny' to have Peter run out of webfluid every other issue or arc. In reality, it just makes him look like even more of an idiot who can't even carry spare cartridges on him, like he's always done in the past.

[delilahdraken]

Webbing? Expensive? Since when?

And didn't they give Pete in-built web shooters like in the film? I remember him using in-built organic thingies for some months now...

If that story line is really that bad, I hope that Panini will rush through it with a paperback, so that all the readers who do not want to submit to such an... abomination will be able to ignore it.

Now, to wait the six months until it arrives here.

[liliaeth]

Nah they've already retconned the organic webshooters, along with everything else that used to be interesting about Spider-Man.

[delilahdraken]

Now that is a clumsy way of story writing, if I've ever seen any. Why do I have the feeling that fanfiction will read better than the real thing?

[liliaeth]

considering how badly written ASM is currently, I can honestly tell you, I've seen fanfics written by thirteen year old fanboys that are better than the crap they dare call Amazing these days.

[delilahdraken]

Ouch.

That is a very bad thing to hear, considering that these writers get paid for their stories instead of the usual fans who write just to please their own heart.