With the announcment today that marvel and dan slott will be taking spider-man into a much darker direction ive decided to write about my problems with marvel and there direction with spider-man over the last few years
Ever since marvel decided to retcon peter parkers marriage to mary jane in the worst spider-man story ever told one more day the amazing spider-man has been a very average to mediocre title. After one more day marvel decided to have a rotating number of writers and artists and made the amazing spider-man a 3 times a month book and bring it back to the 70's status quo marvel seems to love effectivly destorying all character growth for peter parker since the late 80's. Alot of the stories where either hit or miss mostly miss. After a few years marvel decide to make the amazing spider-man a bi-weekly title and give the full writing duties to dan slott starting with the story arc big time.
When dan slott started the big time story arc the amazing spider-man looked to be on the rise again after years of mediocrity however after a few issues it started to go downhill really fast with poor motivations and bad charactersations for example: phil urich aka the new hobgoblin his motivations for being the hobgoblin is that he wants to impress norah winters. Really? because im not sure killing people in brutal and horrible ways will impress a girl unless she's absolutely psychotic. But the biggest insult of slotts run is peter parker/spider-man himself. Dan slott does not get the character at all he writes him like an incompetent idiot who reacts on impulse and doesnt think case in point ends of the earth and no turning back.
With the annoucment today that after amazing spider-man #700 is cancelled and when the superior spider-man is released spider-man will undergo a massive tone and character shift from light-hearted to darkness which is making me seriously consider to not even bother picking up the main spider-man title. Ive come to the conclusion that marvel do not know what to do with spider-man. i am i massive spider-man fan and i dont want spider-man to be a dark character this happend before in the 90's just before the terrible clone saga. With ultimate spider-man being leaps and bounds above amazing spider-man in the last few years i think marvel needs to really get there priorities in order in terms of getting the amazing spider-man back to quality. I think marvel should give the writing chores to jonathan hickman who i think has a fantastic voice for the character having previously wrote him in ff.
I know this is a long article but i had to get my point across. Let me know what you guys think
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