Kevin's Watch

Ugh!

Why, why, oh why does Joe Quesada believe that whatever he likes is what all Marvel fans would enjoy seeing?

Has anyone else read this? It came out in the last few months, prior to the folding of all Spider-Man titles into Amazing Spider-Man... As far as I've seen, fan reaction has been poor, to say the least, with lots of people claiming they would stop purchasing Spider-Man after the end of One More Day. And if you read the Spider-Man story during Free Comic Book Day, you could see Brand New Day's storyline coming a mile away (which didn't help in even creating a bit of suspense at the end of One More Day).

Why does Quesada think that

Spoiler

turning Peter Parker from a 25-something-year-old married high school teacher to a 25-something-year-old unmarried unemployed guy who lives in his immortal aunt's house would make him a better role model?

looks like garbage. i am sick of pretty much all ongoing marvel & dc titles. Fables being an obvious deviation. did you see they had thought of killing Batman and making him a New God?

maybe it is time for another Spider clone?

I read it. Wonderful art, well written, but yeah, the ending left me sick to my stomach.

let's destroy all stories set before last week!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Heh, despite my hatred of reboots, Marvel sure has good writer/artist teams doing the BND stuff.

the only Spiderman I can enjoy anymore...

All right, damn you, don't make me lock this thread.....

why do spiders always have such small breasts?

Spidey's no longer with MJ, but whoda guessed he'd replace her with JJ?

That issue sold out in Vermont in SECONDS flat.

jess' kiddin'.


Comics today stink. The art itself no longer tells stories, it merely poses the characters on the page. it is as though the mission of the artwork has gone from playing a story-telling role, to showing how cdool the artist is issue after issue.

I blame Image comics, circa 1994-5 thereabouts.

i read mostly mini-series nowadays. that way i know the writer and artist will be sticking aroung.

Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters
Suicide Squad
the Twelve

A Gunslinger wrote:Comics today stink. The art itself no longer tells stories, it merely poses the characters on the page. it is as though the mission of the artwork has gone from playing a story-telling role, to showing how cdool the artist is issue after issue.

I blame Image comics, circa 1994-5 thereabouts.

I've always been an 'art' sort of guy, so that's what usually draws me to a comic first. I love good writing, too, but I may now even notice it if the art stinks. Therefore, I'm happier now than I was when I started collecting comics in the 70's, especially for the lesser titles, which used to get the lesser talent. And, honesty, I think the independent comics of the 90's has a lot to do with the vast improvements (in inking and coloring especially) I've witnessed over the last decade. If there's anything I miss, it's the relative innocence of the older comics, but when I go back and read them, I realize some of them were pretty much idiotic. There is one thing I absolutely hate, though; something started in the 80's and still goes on: crossovers. I hate crossovers. Nothing ruins the flow of a comic like a stupid crossover!

I read a comics today and wonder if most kids at age 8 or 10 (which is somewhere when I started reading them) would understand or enjoy what's going on.

Used to be that if a kid picked up a comic, say Fantastic Four, they were brought up to speed on what had happened last issue within the first page or two.
I don't see that much anymore.

It must be tough making a comic that a child can understand and will hold an adult's interest as well.
But the old Marvel comics from the 60's and 70's, although clearly "simple", still hold my interest maybe even more than today's comics geared to an older audience.

i think the kids comics/tv shows are better than what we had as kids. the Teen Titans, Ben 10, JLA, LSH. all of these trump anything produced back in the day.