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Reading through the LIFE OF REILLY always proves a both fascinating and frustrating experience for me (I glance at the posts from time to time), with a touch of nostalgia thrown in for good measure, or bad, depending on how you look at it.
Fascinating due to all the behind-the-scenes planning/turmoil that went down through the entire thing, how a story meant to restore Spider-Man to his roots went horribly wrong and what it took to get things (sort of) back on track.
Frustrating because as a result of the story, it spun things with my favorite character completely out of control, to a point where he never really recovered.
The small bit of nostalgia comes from the fact that in spite of it all, this was still my heyday of reading comics as a youngster, and looking back through all those story arcs really takes me back in time...to a time where I really found myself enjoying new Spider-Man comics.
Of course back then, I had less sense of the history of the character. As a result, I had no idea that the stories I was reading, however entertaining they might be, were not Spider-Man stories. Not only that, but I had no idea how long-lasting the ramifications of those stories would be!
JB once spoke in an interview with Wizard (#47) about new comic creators and I quote, "They have no sense of history. Everything that's wrong with the world, and everything that's wrong with the industry, can be distilled down to having no sense of history."
And thanks to those creators having no sense of history, Spider-Man is even further from his roots than ever before.
I'm just glad I was able to wise up, do some research, and learn the truth. Learn about the real Spider-Man, whose adventures I can still get into by cracking open one of the classics.
Edited by Philip Obaza on 11 August 2012 at 5:55pm
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