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until this issue. This was just... it was just awful. The writing was atrocious... I think this Futurama quote sums it up best...
Robot Devil: This opera is as lousy as it is brilliant. You can't just have your characters announce how their feeling. That makes me feel angry!
Minus the brilliant part, of course.
But yes, absolutely terrible arc.
http://www.newsarama.com/WWLA/08/Marvel/spiderman.html
Things to note:
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
Well it's something we've all wanted to see. Probably the only thing having kept Osborn from doing it so far is Stark.
Let's Play Final Fantasy 'II' (Ch10 - 5/17/10)
I made a list of predictions to Lanz over AIM before I read the issue:
TMM's Totally Secret AIM (4:27:58 PM): lemme sum up it's inevitable story
TMM's Totally Secret AIM (4:28:02 PM): PETER PARKER HAS BAD LUCK
TMM's Totally Secret AIM (4:28:08 PM): HIS BOSS DOES NOT REMEMBER HIS NAME
TMM's Totally Secret AIM (4:28:14 PM): JACKPOTS TOTALLY NOT MJ
TMM's Totally Secret AIM (4:28:20 PM): (SHE TOTALLY S)
TMM's Totally Secret AIM (4:28:34 PM): SPIDER-MAN RUNS OUT OF WEB FLUID/HIS WEBSHOOTERS ARE DAMAGED
TMM's Totally Secret AIM (4:28:53 PM): TWO COP BUDDIES: ONE HATES SPIDER-MAN, ONE LIKES HIM
Except for Jackpot (which counts if you include the letters page, but I'll be fair) I was almost 100% accurate.
Wow.
Only one more issue though and then next month is that awesome looking Spidey/Wolverine team up drawn by Bachalo
I don't HATE freak, but seeing the same group of symbols every other sentence makes me wonder if Gale knows how to write actual dialog or if that was to make it look like he was adding emotion.
I know its subtle but I got the impression that Freak is angry with Spider-Man in particular. MAybe I'm reading too much into it.
It definitely was a subtext... I couldn't get a proper read on his emotions. I wish he would just announce them, and save me and the artist the trouble of trying to decipher them.
I will give them credit for treating us like we're smart though. Leaving it up to us to interpret through their actions what they are really feeling and in turn, emoting. I felt smrter after having read it.
You forgot "SOMETHING HAPPENS TO PETE'S CAMERA".
Also, uh-oh! Freak has Spidey's scent! Maybe he'll figure out his secret identity!
I'm rueing this story-arc very intensly, BND needs a retcon like Magic Johnson needs T-cells.
She could be in that many if she were dead through periodic quotes that Petey remembers at the appropriate time.
"Bake for 1 hour until crust is golden"
"You're right Aunt May, I can defeat this Venom army".
The point is she's served her purpose as being the spider-man/peter parker moral compass. Her time is done. The person who's supposed to take over that role once she's out of the picture is his wife, Mary-Jane.
And now he's being chased by civil servants who don't understand him, another goblin like figure, all the while being nagged by that old should-be-dead lady that's only there to perform motherly duties for the character. Why are they treading down already worn paths? Are they gearing the comic back towards teens or what? WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS TO MY BEUTIFUL COMIC?
Also: push you into buying Ultimate, if you weren't already.
Anally.
because your "beutiful" comic has been average to terrible for the last 10-15 years, and now people are actually talking about it again. And many people (like myself) are loving it.
I'm just not digging it like I was Back in Black.
Or really any Spidey at all before this.
you're wrong. the last issue of Spider-Man was bad. It was god awful bad. terrible bad.
I started reading Amazing a couple months before Civil War started.
I think it was 529, but don't quote me.
I know it was three issues before Civil War started.
And of course I have a small stack of stuff from the 90s and older.
You know, the 4-parter from the 90s where Norman came back and killed Ben Reilly.
What I'm saying is I enjoyed Revelations more than the last couple issues of ASM.
I seriously doubt you have ever read them and no the Bob Gale issues are nowhere near that bad.
?? How old is he? 14? Then again with my turning 25 this June I've got to be one of the oldest comic book fans I know.
Clone Saga was 94-97
I was born in 90.
And I still have the last 4 issues of Clone Saga hanging around somewhere.
The last one was far better than the last two issues of Amazing.
Even though it killed both Urich-GG and Spider-Ben, Revelations was in no way bad. It was awesome. Hell, the months that followed up until the Scryers stuff were all awesome. Norman as a media darling, the return of Roderick Kingsley, all good stuff.
Then came total shit with the return of Aunt May, crazy God Norman and the reboot.
1. "Oh, that darn Parker Luck, hyuk hyuk hyuk!" jokes.
2. Aunt May and her wheatcakes are back! Yay?
3. Harry is also back. Or maybe he's a demon. Or a skrull. Or a skrull demon. Or something.
4. MJ is a superhero now.
5. Some new villains have been introduced.
Is that it? All the rigamarole for just that? It just doesn't seem like much returned value for all the crap that was endured.
Man.... I wish I'd stopped reading.
Lucky bastard.
But they got rid of the marriage, a font of untapped potential, and instead went 30 years in the past... a place that was strip mined, then had the ground salted so nothing could ever grow there again.