Kevin's Watch

Why?

Well, that kind of sucks. Personally, I wouldn't put Peter Parker back in high school, though. I think I'd fast forward to the Black Cat era, where Pete's an adult and there's no Mary Jane in sight. It's not my favorite era, and I really do like MJ, but it would give SM IV a different feel. At least this has one major upside: we probably won't have to sit through another Batman IV scenario.

They backed out of Spiderman 4. They'll back out of this, too.

wayfriend wrote:They backed out of Spiderman 4. They'll back out of this, too.

Let's hope so... I don't know how you can have a Spiderman in High School where (if I recall correctly) Peter Parker became Spiderman in college.

No, it was high school. He graduated in issue 28 and started college in issue 31. He graduated college in issue 184. They covered high school in the 1st movie, there's nothing wrong with the 3 movies (ok, the 3rd was weak, but I'm already over that) and most fans associate with the adult Peter Parker anyway, so I really hope there's no reboot.

dANdeLION wrote:No, it was high school. He graduated in issue 28 and started college in issue 31. He graduated college in issue 184.

All righty!

dANdeLION wrote:Well, that kind of sucks. Personally, I wouldn't put Peter Parker back in high school, though. I think I'd fast forward to the Black Cat era, where Pete's an adult and there's no Mary Jane in sight. It's not my favorite era, and I really do like MJ, but it would give SM IV a different feel. At least this has one major upside: we probably won't have to sit through another Batman IV scenario.

Yeah, I'm sure it also doesn't have anything to due with the fact that the Black Cat is freaking hot!

Leave it to the High Lord of The Horny Order of Ogling Linden Avery's Hooters to point that out!

dANdeLION wrote:Leave it to the High Lord of The Horny Order of Ogling Linden Avery's Hooters to point that out!

Oh come on! Why?! What's the point of telling the same story again in a slightly different way? Grrr!

CovenantJr wrote:Oh come on! Why?! What's the point of telling the same story again in a slightly different way? Grrr!

What was the point of Brand New Day? To give old fans more of what they liked when they first started reading Spider-Man, because surely newer fans also would like to see that, wouldn't they?

No, it was to give us old fans a collective migraine.

I'm all for it.
Hopefully they'll get rid of that silly webbing comes from his body concept and go back to the old mechanical web shooters.
I really didn't like that.
I always found it a testament to Peter's intelligence that he came up with that.
And it was used to effectively in the comics.
Because sometimes it clogged, he ran out, he had spare cartridges hidden in his belt, he had to reformulate it based on certain villains.....
Having it generated biologically is too silly for me.

And just like in the movies if Peter gets too old he'll alienate the biggest fan base: kids.

High Lord Tolkien wrote:I'm all for it.
Hopefully they'll get rid of that silly webbing comes from his body concept and go back to the old mechanical web shooters.
I really didn't like that.
I always found it a testament to Peter's intelligence that he came up with that.
And it was used to effectively in the comics.
Because sometimes it clogged, he ran out, he had spare cartridges hidden in his belt, he had to reformulate it based on certain villains.....
Having it generated biologically is too silly for me.

And just like in the movies if Peter gets too old he'll alienate the biggest fan base: kids.

Yes, but - and perhaps this should start going into Comics - there already was a young Peter people could read without continuity's weight: the Ultimate Spider-Man. When they came up with Brand New Day, all they did was alienating those fans (like me) who came onboard after his marriage, as well as all those fans who realized that the whole One More Day plot was horrifying (and that Peter would be willing to make a deal with the devil involving sacrificing his marriage to spare a 90-year-old woman). Personally, if I had been Mephisto, I would have done the same thing that was done to Johnny Blaze: I would have saved Aunt May and then have her killed the following day in a mundane fashion (perhaps struck by a car) - therefore keeping to the letter of the pact, while causing additional anguish to the other party...