Yeah. In a way I'm not surprised because I think Stan Lee likes to be agreeable more often than not. I don't think he was forced into it, but for him it might be a, "Well, if they're doing that, I'll do it too" type of thing. You're right about the newspaper audience probably not caring, too.
Rosy-eyed nostalgia will be the death of the Spider-Man franchise, not what saves it.
I totally agree. They just want to do the same tropes again and again and it's going to just stunt the books, not keep them in some magical time capsule. I mean, when I read the Lee/Ditko issues, they're not my favorite Spider-Man era but you can clearly feel the creativity and the inventiveness and the willingness to take risks. And THAT was what made them great. And strong, distinct personalities made the Lee/Romita era great. They have to work on THAT to make the new Spidey books great, not arbitrary rules about Spider-Man being some sort of dateaholic slacker.
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Date: 2009-01-05 05:14 am (UTC)Rosy-eyed nostalgia will be the death of the Spider-Man franchise, not what saves it.
I totally agree. They just want to do the same tropes again and again and it's going to just stunt the books, not keep them in some magical time capsule. I mean, when I read the Lee/Ditko issues, they're not my favorite Spider-Man era but you can clearly feel the creativity and the inventiveness and the willingness to take risks. And THAT was what made them great. And strong, distinct personalities made the Lee/Romita era great. They have to work on THAT to make the new Spidey books great, not arbitrary rules about Spider-Man being some sort of dateaholic slacker.