Is that what he'll be doing? Certainly having him wanted by the United States government (now also changed) would have made that difficult.
Generally speaking, I'm not opposed to characters changing or even dying. I'm offended though when really lame storytelling (eg a deal with the devil) just sweeps everything away for the sake of change. I've been a regular reader of Spider-Man since my girlfriend (now my wife) and I picked up a comic book back in 1989. This recent issue tells me that none of the stories I've ever read actually took place, and assumes that I'm going to have some interest in continuing to read the series.
Would it have been that difficult to just create a new character to go help the UN?
Actually, I don't know if that's actually the reason why they did it. I just read recently that Marvel was going to be doing some work with Spidey doing some work with the UN.
I think it's just some lazy story writing. Recently I was watching Sum of All Fears, which is one of the Tom Clancey movies. If you haven't seen it, or know the story, (I hope I don't spoil something here for you, it's many years old) it has a young Jack Ryan and involves a nuclear explosion in Baltimore. Now, I knew this, but all the sudden I have a WTheck moment, as I realize that several novels' and movies' back stories have just been totally ruined and how could they have done that? They couldn't have just made a totally new character? Oh, no, they had so much invested in the Jack Ryan franchise that they had to make a whole new universe for Jack Ryan.
J. Michael Straczynski (of Babylon 5 fame) had been writing it, but he has quit now. I don't know who will be taking over and writing the issues that I won't be reading. My understanding is that JMS was forced into this storyline, and he's quite unhappy with it.
I blame Bendis for everything wrong with Marvel these days. Just because. JMS isn't much better. Not that I read shit in issue. Or anything mainstream. Hell, even when I read mainstream I read weird arcane esoteric stuff. Earth X, anyone? Mmm.
JMS certainly made a lot of unpopular choices, but my base feeling is that he can write a good story. To be clear, my main problem with this story isn't that Peter and Mary Jane are no longer married; it's that the way that this happened is really lame.
I understand that heroes don't always have everything go their way all the time; the core of storytelling after all is conflict and resolution. I like a good conflict and I enjoy seeing my heroes work their way through it. I just think that this is a lame way to bring about a not-married Peter Parker (which apparently was the goal).
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Generally speaking, I'm not opposed to characters changing or even dying. I'm offended though when really lame storytelling (eg a deal with the devil) just sweeps everything away for the sake of change. I've been a regular reader of Spider-Man since my girlfriend (now my wife) and I picked up a comic book back in 1989. This recent issue tells me that none of the stories I've ever read actually took place, and assumes that I'm going to have some interest in continuing to read the series.
Would it have been that difficult to just create a new character to go help the UN?
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I think it's just some lazy story writing. Recently I was watching Sum of All Fears, which is one of the Tom Clancey movies. If you haven't seen it, or know the story, (I hope I don't spoil something here for you, it's many years old) it has a young Jack Ryan and involves a nuclear explosion in Baltimore. Now, I knew this, but all the sudden I have a WTheck moment, as I realize that several novels' and movies' back stories have just been totally ruined and how could they have done that? They couldn't have just made a totally new character? Oh, no, they had so much invested in the Jack Ryan franchise that they had to make a whole new universe for Jack Ryan.
I guess the same thing.
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I understand that heroes don't always have everything go their way all the time; the core of storytelling after all is conflict and resolution. I like a good conflict and I enjoy seeing my heroes work their way through it. I just think that this is a lame way to bring about a not-married Peter Parker (which apparently was the goal).
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