Oh and ...

[quietprofanity]

Man, this sucks.

Although it doesn't really affect my life because I don't read the newspaper comics. Hell, I haven't read the new Marvel comics for ... awhile now. Mostly because my job was keeping me preoccupied so I had to drop comics even before One More Day/Brand New Day came out. So I didn't really contribute to the "vote with my wallet" initiative. I suspect they don't care about money anyway, given how adamant Quesada was about this.

My boyfriend has been whining to me about my Marvel apathy. (I taught him the term "harshing my squee" and now he says that to me all the time.) But at least that's pretty much all it is: apathy. I don't want to play the "you have a responsibility to buy the books you like" game anymore. And I'm not going to get excited about these big crossover events only to have them come out late and be annoying. I can still squee, even if most of that squee has been taken up getting excited over a comic that came out when I was 1-years-old. I just, don't feel it for Marvel much anymore, I'm afraid.

And while I'm complaining, I just want to say this: Peter Parker should have never married Gwen Stacy. Actually, scratch that. GWEN STACY should have never married Peter Parker because she threw herself at him and he was a total prick to her. Right before her death he thought she was cheating on him with Flash. That relationship sucked, sucked, SUUUUU-CKED.

Comments

[htbthomas.livejournal.com]

ARGH, that sucks. Why do I suddenly feel as if Spider-Girl is ending for the same reason? DDDDDDDD:

[big-wired.livejournal.com]

RAGH!! Stupid Quesada~!!!

*sighs, shakes head* Ah hell with it, I'm too damned tired to feel angry anymore. About the only Marvel comics I buy are a few of the Marvel Adventure series because they're actually fun, even if Spidey is single in those ones.

I can certainly understand your apathy, because it seems like no matter what we, the fans, say, Joey boy and his idiot cohorts are just going to do what we like, and we can't do anything but wait for new staff to take over and change things back to how they should be.

I still think the whole single Spider-Man thing is insulting to men, because Spider-Man has been about growing up and facing your responsibilities, not running away from them over a sense of nostalgia.

Not to mention a slap to women too, saying that hey, you're just a girl, we'll toss you aside in favour of someone else.

[sandoz-iscariot.livejournal.com]

At least they've only set the clock back to before the marriage, instead of actually undoing it with all that Mephisto crap. Not unexpected, but still sucky. The newspaper strip audience is probably the least likely to care about whether Spider-Man is young and hip and single or whatever.

And while I'm complaining, I just want to say this: Peter Parker should have never married Gwen Stacy. Actually, scratch that. GWEN STACY should have never married Peter Parker because she threw herself at him and he was a total prick to her. Right before her death he thought she was cheating on him with Flash. That relationship sucked, sucked, SUUUUU-CKED.

So much word. The Cult of Gwen makes me want to pull my hair out. Rosy-eyed nostalgia will be the death of the Spider-Man franchise, not what saves it.