I expect Peter David to whine about how the spoilers are ruining the experience of actually reading the comics (like he did regarding the "Uncle Ben is alive" thing a while back).

This coming from a guy who wrote nearly all of his recent Comics Buyers' Guide columns solely as attempts to defend "The Other".

...Spider-Man that was still hanging on by a thread ...
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Ha! That's a good one!

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Yes, I am capable of subtle jokes.

I won't deny that the unmasking of Spider-Man is a definite, deliberate attempt to give the event a  "shock and awe" moment, but after reading the story, all parts of it, and more importantly, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #532, I can say with no doubt in my heart or mind that the path that took Peter to unmasking was both organic and believable.  Aunt May's speach, with the exception of one line, was one of the most emotional sets of dialogue I've ever seen in comic book form. 

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More fanboy jerk-off "cathartic realism", right up there with stories like Peter having a long, "realistic" talk with May after she found out his true identity early  in JMS' run, and Peter telling May that he may have accidentally killed Gwen Stacy (and May subsequently forgiving him).

History is repeating itself.

Except this time, the focus is on writers instead of artists. The pendulum has swung toward the other extreme.

I expect the bottom to fall out pretty soon, just as it did with the Spectator Boom of the 90s.

"More fanboy jerk-off "cathartic realism", right up there with stories like Peter having a long, "realistic" talk with May after she found out his true identity early  in JMS' run, and Peter telling May that he may have accidentally killed Gwen Stacy (and May subsequently forgiving him)."

1.) and you'll forgive me in advance if I'm "reading you wrong", but I don't really like the fact that your post seems rather . . . insulting, to me, because our tastes differ.

2.) I find the idea that people (Joe Quesada included, apparently) are clinging to the "everyman" image of the Lee/Ditko Spider-Man puzzling.  How long ago was it that Peter married MJ?  20 years? If that's being "defined" as a "Jump The Shark" moment, where Peter went from being an "everyman" to a fantasy hero, and people are still clinging to an image of Peter Parker/Spider-Man that hasn't existed for two decades, I have to ask: who are the real "fanboys"?  The people who adapt to the way comics are being written, or the people who think things need to revert to how they were back when they started reading comics? 

3.) You'd rather May not forgive him?  Did you want her to throw a bottle of wine at his head, tell him he's a horrible person, and kick him out of her home and life forever?