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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2015 12:45:37 GMT -5
So far I'm still dragging my feet on this one and so far, have not bothered with variant covers either... Any thoughts? I heard Moon Knight's dead, so I will at least get #1.  |
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Post by Honeystinger on Jun 1, 2015 17:44:26 GMT -5
I've ordered it online. Hope vs experience. I haven't read much Spider-Man since issue #1 of Brand New Day, or whatever it was called. I might come back if the marriage comes back.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 1, 2015 17:58:11 GMT -5
I have it ordered, but that preview looks pretty awful.
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Post by Confessor on Jun 1, 2015 18:45:40 GMT -5
I haven't read much Spider-Man since issue #1 of Brand New Day, or whatever it was called. I might come back if the marriage comes back. I'd love to see the marriage come back, but I'd only want that to happen if the deal with Mephisto was undone and everything that has happened since gets undone. Realistically, that's never gonna happen. I hated the whole "Brand New Day" reboot, partly because I dispised the deal with Mephisto and the erasing of the Spider-marriage and partly because it resulted in a year or more of pretty lousy Spider-Man comics. Since Dan Slott has been the full time writer on Amazing Spider-Man things have improved a lot and I thought the whole Doc Ock in Spidey's body thing was very interesting. As for this particular Secret Wars tie-in, I'm not interested in "What if...?" or "Elseworlds" style alternate reality stories, which I believe is what this essentially is. To be honest, I'm kind of hazy on what this whole Secret Wars thing will bring to the mainstream Marvel Universe long term, and especially how it will effect Spider-Man, who's the only Marvel character I still follow. I do still enjoy reading Amazing Spider-Man every month, but if I'm brutally honest, I've not been really excited by or totally engrossed in Spider-Man comics since J. Micheal Strazynski's run on Amazing Spider-Man finished in 2007. If this new Secret Wars event is gonna change the ongoing status quo too much then, I dunno, I'm kinda wondering if it might be time for me to stop following Spidey's ongoing adventures and concentrate on buying old Bronze Age back issues instead. That preview of Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows makes me think it will be terrible. |
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Post by Pharozonk on Jun 1, 2015 19:26:00 GMT -5
I'm no Spidey expert, but shouldn't the baby be named May?  |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 1, 2015 20:04:06 GMT -5
Spidey weaving a diaper out of webbing is something I've wanted to see since MJ first got pregnant, but like The Confessor I'm not much interested in alternate reality stories tying to big cross-company events. (The art looks disappointing, too. Characters should look the same from panel to panel; we shouldn't have to check their clothes to know who' who. And the baby has arms as long as a five year old's).
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jun 3, 2015 3:16:15 GMT -5
The scene is proof positive that Peter Parker should have never gotten married. I've always felt that marriage between a superhero and a normal human is a tad absurd and really doesn't work. It's kind of hard to get much traction on your "You didn't take the garbage out two days in a row!" argument when the reason behind it all has to do with your spouse saving the entire city. Again.
The reason Read and Sue work so well in the FF is because they both have powers and share a common history as superheroes. Sure, they have had their mundane domestic squabbles, but how many couples can fondly remember the time they had sex in the Negative Zone?
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 3, 2015 8:49:13 GMT -5
Yeah, I know what you're saying. I think it could work, but not they way this is portrayed. Hopefully the rest is better.
The art though... ugh.
I've actually quite liked most of Slott's Spidey that I've read, with the Horizon Labs stuff, and the Superior story, but the current stuff with 'Parker Enterprises' seems like a watered down 80s Iron Man comic.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2015 15:01:24 GMT -5
Pass. I've pretty much lost interest in Spider-Man since they undid Superior. And it might be heretical, but I actually prefer an unmarried Spider-Man - marrying off Peter Parker to a super-model was unbelievably stupid for the character.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2015 17:21:39 GMT -5
but how many couples can fondly remember the time they had sex in the Negative Zone? Raises hand. |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jun 3, 2015 18:11:51 GMT -5
I preferred a married Spider-man because it made the character far more difficult to write and the writer/editor's constant attempts to undo it to make their job easier were consistently hilarious. I really miss that. You could figure out who had chops and who didn't right quick with a married Spidey.
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jun 3, 2015 18:16:27 GMT -5
but how many couples can fondly remember the time they had sex in the Negative Zone? Raises hand. I stand corrected. |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jun 3, 2015 18:25:41 GMT -5
Pass. I've pretty much lost interest in Spider-Man since they undid Superior. And it might be heretical, but I actually prefer an unmarried Spider-Man - marrying off Peter Parker to a super-model was unbelievably stupid for the character. Not heretical at all. I started following comics around the time Peter and Mary Jane got married, so that was in effect "my Spider-Man." Thing is I've always had an odd respect for what came before, even as a kid, so after finally reading the original Ditko run, and as much as the Romita/Conway/Stern years as I could get my hands on, I realized how wrong it was for the character. There were certainly some good comics that came after 1986, but I think it really started to strain the concept by the early 90's. It's no wonder the strain caused creators to do stupid crap like The Clone Saga and "I am the Spider!" This is a problem created by Stan Lee, of all people. Stan...why?! |
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Post by wickedmountain on Jun 4, 2015 3:00:18 GMT -5
I might get this yes.
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Post by Honeystinger on Jun 8, 2015 12:31:11 GMT -5
Pass. I've pretty much lost interest in Spider-Man since they undid Superior. And it might be heretical, but I actually prefer an unmarried Spider-Man - marrying off Peter Parker to a super-model was unbelievably stupid for the character. IMHO making Mary Jane an aspiring actress with dreams of someday making it to Broadway would have been more credible. |
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