•• Let's take these one at a time, shall we?

"The Hulk and Bruce Banner get separated."

•• And that was intended to be permanent? No.

*** Technically, I could say the same thing about my last big run, SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN with the Doc-Ock-mind-swap. And also at the start of any story that you've told where a major-status-quo-changing event happened. Imagine if we were having this conversation when your run of HULK was just starting and the premise had barely been released.

Some of the assumptions you're levying against this new run are about a book where no one's even read one page from the interiors yet. For the past two and a half years this has been the best selling title set in the Marvel U. I think the team on the book has earned enough good will for people to give the first issue a go.

"Namor uses the wealths of the oceans to become a major mogul."

•• Which he'd done before, with Stan and Jack at the helm.

*** In all of one issue when he was a movie mogul. But you took that, extrapolated on it, and produced some great comics! In that same vein, we're taking something Stan & Steve did-- having Peter come up with amazing, ground breaking inventions (like Spidey's web-fluid, or the anti-magnetic inverter he used on the Vulture) and are extrapolating that to tell a new chapter in Spidey's life.

"Superman's origins from Krypton through Smallville through Metropolis get changed and over hauled."

•• Which had happened many times before and since, and didn't change the character.

*** I'd disagree. You did some phenomenal changes in that run. Especially your take on Clark's life in Smallville. Things you did in your run WERE changes-- and have found their way into everything from LOIS AND CLARK to SUPERMAN ADVENTURES and in SMALLVILLE. In those cases, most people would agree with me that YOUR changes were changes for the good!

"She-Hulk becomes a break-the-fourth-wall style of comedy book."

•• Which didn't change the character.

*** Again, I'd disagree. The way you changed her character were profound. She became completely different then the way she was in David Anthony Kraft's run of SAVAGE, Stern's AVENGERS, and even your FF. In your run of SENSATIONAL you gave the character the license to be goofy, a little bit screwball, and more upbeat than anyone had portrayed her before. That BIG change to her character remains to this day because of the risks you were willing to take in that book.

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And you know what's supposed to happen when it gets "wearying"? YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO MOVE ON. You are NOT supposed to selfishly demand that the comics and the characters change to fit YOUR needs. Nor are the writers, artists and editors supposed to pander to the ever diminishing pool of people who make such demands.

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"Fool me once. . . "

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Roger Stern -- you know, one of the guys who GETS IT -- has often said the thing he used to like as a fan, reading Spider-Man comics, was that no matter how crappy his day had been, Peter Parker's had been worse!

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Present -- and no offense taken.

See, the problem is, too many people, fans and pros alike, have come to think of Parker as a LOSER. He's not. He's a sad sack, to be sure, but he is no more a LOSER than any other average guy -- which is what he is supposed to be, and what he should read as being, provided one does not stick around for 40 years.