Greg Kirkman wrote: "Brian Hague, it's scary how right you can be at times."

Y'know, Greg, I keep telling people this, and they will not listen to me...!

There's a big difference between writing a story specifically geared toward telling the tale of collateral damage stemming from a single fight between a superhero and a super villain and the insinuation that's been bandied about re: the Hulk for the past several years that he's killed hundreds of people in his rampages through the course of his time in the MU.  The former, the story you reference about Captain Stacey's death, was the exception, not the rule, with regard to not only Spider-Man, but MU heroes in general.  The latter is a rewriting of the conceit of the genre such that we're now supposed to look with a critical "realistic" eye toward any damage created in this fictional world as damage that impacts innocents in such a way that the heroes are culpable in their deaths (my Thing and Superman punching people through populated buildings springs immediately to mind).  As has been said many times, the conceit of the genre is a house of cards. Pull one out because you want to make it "realistic", and the whole thing comes crashing down.  Why anyone would want to do that with established mainstream superheroes is beyond me.

Totally agree with you there Matt.  I guess my main point was that this story had not only been done, it's been done better, and it didn't have to be part of a multi-book, mega company crossover event.

It's a very fragile house of cards, and Marvel seems to be trying to not only shake the table the cards are stacked on, but are bringing in a big fan to blow on the cards as well.  From the whole Civil War mess to this Hulk stuff, they seem to be trying their best to take the "FUN" out of comics.