Eventually  ^^***** will announce a miniseries that is essentially about how far Spider-Woman can stick her ass into the air while prowling around on all fours.

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This comes only after the mini-series where first they kill her off. 

Afterward, comes a new regular series with her returning from the dead with a new costume. Then we find out Jessica Drew was only one of many Spider-women engineered by Hydra.  Each one will have a different color costume and have a different venom blast. Hydra returns and tries to enslave our fearsome dark angels of the night.

Eventually they defeat Hydra (after a massive event spanning eight months and 25 cross-over titles).  Whereupon, they all move to Boise Idaho and open a detective agency.

Then when the new series reaches issue 37, M***** will renumber it to issue 200. 

The series will be cancelled with issue 225 due to low sales leaving a lot of microbrains at M*****, scratching their heads and wondering What The---?

Great new idea for a new exciting character: Spider-Lady!

She's a lesbian! .....and.....uh.....we'll eventually think of something else to sort of round that out.

Eventually.

Maybe..

The Press DARES to gasp out a question: "OMG are super hero comics REALLY ready for (yet) a(nother) lesbian super heroine (again) ?"

For that matter are the sloppy, clumsy, flailing, slap-dash "writers" of today's super hero comics ready?  Y'know, are they ready to produce some actual stories about the latest shocking cutting edge 'thingie-ma-bob' that they seem so proud of that tell us what's so great about the new character and will make people relate to her and distinguish her from other similar chracaters and want to read the book? Will they actually have anything put-together to sell us besides the 'hook' by the time the new chracter makes her debut? Does it even matter?(Huurrrr Nope!)

Just send out that promo because science tells us that "Cartoon + Lesbian" =" BIG $" and press coverage and fake controversy. It's automatic! Just draw a picture with some tits and put the word lesbian next to it and cha-ching! Big news that changes comics forever! (Some more).

Shaun wrote:
If only Stan the Man would get good and angry once in a while over what's been done to his creations.  Maybe then, someone would listen.

Greg replied:
Speaking from recent experience (I met Stan!!!! Wow!!!!!), I think it it's safe to say that he's simply too gracious and too much of a class act to do something like that.

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And so by inference, JB is ungracious and classless when he defends the characters Stan (with Jack and Steve and others) created.  He's getting reamed for defending Stan's "kids" while Stan smiles and evades pointed, legitimate questions about the industry.  I know that's not how you meant it, Greg, but that's a wee bit of a slap there.

JB is right to be angry about what's been going on in comics, and he's right to be angry about being defined as bitter.  Being called bitter means that others do more than disagree with his position, it means they dismiss his position as petty and unimportant. 

I agree with Shaun.  Stan Lee is the only comic-related personality who has a chance of speaking out against the current situation without being villified.  And even HE would be slammed by some. 

Frank Miller wrote in one of his Sin City letters columns that he thinks Stan Lee's old soapbox columns were clever satires on what it meant to work for Marvel - and remember, this would be Marvel back when most of us thought it was great.

That is "bitter".