tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883435.post9208910106956470057..comments2024-01-29T03:38:02.688-05:00Comments on Abject Conjecture: Spider-Man: OMG!Markhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05401863118078816763noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5883435.post-64401660107339976812008-01-22T13:56:00.000-05:002008-01-22T13:56:00.000-05:00I agree with so much of what you've said here. An...I agree with so much of what you've said here. And yet... and yet...<BR/><BR/>I can't go to ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN; that way lies madness. And while I agree in general that I'd like to see all my favorite superheroes progress and change and grow and eventually pass their legacies on to new characters... still... for whatever reason, comics companies are too lazy or scared to try to do that. Given what we're going to get, I can't really mind the dissolution of the Parker/Watson marriage. I always thought it was a terrible idea; if any one woman that Petey ever dated was totally wrong for him, it always seemed to me that it was MJ.<BR/><BR/>I don't know who I would have rather seen Petey end up with... it always seemed to me that his true love was Gwen, and he should never really get over her. <BR/><BR/>Spider-Man has always been the ultimate loner; as such, he should not join teams and he should not be married. Having Gwen be his particular Lois Lane or... whoever Batman's destined future wife/true love is; Selina Kyle these days, I guess... just seemed appropriate to me. <BR/><BR/>It's what differentiated Spidey from characters like Supes and Bats. Spidey's true love was dead, killed by Spidey's arch enemy, a failure on Spider-Man's part that would forever haunt him, and that, in fact, pretty much represented the end of the innocence, not just for him, but for his entire fictional universe. <BR/><BR/>I don't expect any writer currently working for Marvel to get all that; I expect, as you say, it's mostly simply a case of convenience for them, and a hope of appealing to their callow base. But, still, a single Peter Parker still haunted by the death of Gwen seems to me to be a truer rendition of Spider-Man than a happy go lucky married guy who has long since gotten over his greatest failure. <BR/><BR/>Not that it matters; the only comics I buy these days are Silver Age reprints anyway.Doc Nebulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052810933464744998noreply@blogger.com