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Greg Woronchak
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I miss the good ol' days when a cliffhanger splash was the hero in certain doom....
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I've always wondered how far comics have moved away from their "center" when I was reading them. This panel is very telling. Is walking in on two people being intimate something comic readers really want to consider? Just awful.
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So if this movie makes a kid into a Spider-Man fan and he goes into a comic shop to find a Spider-Man comic, he'll get a story about Peter Parker as Tony Stark instead.

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JB: Nothing new there. If anyone sought out a Superman comic after the first Donner/Reeve movie, they'd have found Clark Kent, news anchor, Steve Lombard and Morgan Edge!

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Exactly why I had to wait for you to restart the character with Man Of Steel. Probably missed several years of me collecting and reading Superman because the character, and his world, was too far removed from what I knew.

I wonder how many will feel the same way about the current Spider-Man.

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The lesson to be learned here is DON'T CHANGE THE CHARACTERS!

This, of course, sound stick-in-the-muddish to the ennui-engorged fanboys and "pros" who make up too much of the process these days. But change is all about selfishness. "I want these characters to GROW, just like I did! (Please ignore that still reading comics and wanting this is pretty much the opposite of "growth".)"

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The above image is what I was referring to. Greg you actually seemed
to be aware of more than I am.
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The analogy I like to use is that, despite having been divorced and
remarried, I can't help but be concerned as I watch from afar while my
ex spirals out of control. Just because I've moved on doesn't mean that
I don't care if she's become a crackhead and a hooker.

I haven't bought a new Spider-Man comic in over a decade, but alł of
these lovely little tidbits of info keep coming my way. It's a method of
slow torture, I guess!
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Jason Larouse
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Anyone remember what kind of condition the X-Men were in when the first movie was coming out?
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JB: The lesson to be learned here is DON'T CHANGE THE CHARACTERS!

SER: What I find scary are the fans and -- even scarier -- the pros who think that what you did with Superman or Wonder Woman or the Hulk count as the sort of "changes" that modern comics have made to the characters.

For me, it's beyond a simple artistic disagreement. I fear that the folks running the industry truly don't understand the art form.

But perhaps this is rooted in some of the obsessive-compulsion of some fans. It's like how someone on OCD can notice if there's an extra pillow on the sofa or if the lightbulb you replaced is brighter than the old one. To them, these are all major changes -- no different than if you gutted the kitchen or turned the bathroom into a sauna.

This type of OCD fan can't see a difference between a Superman drawn with a slightly larger chest emblem than one whose identity is public knowledge. Or a Wonder Woman whose bracelets are larger and one who kills her male opponents like a twisted version of Xena.
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Beyond the de-aged Ultimate Aunt May, and "616" Aunt May apparently banging everyone in sight, what else is there to know?


I started reading Spider-Man again in 2008. In that time Aunt May has only had one romantic partner, who she married over 100 issues ago.
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Greg Kirkman
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Well, aside from that lovely little tidbit about young May banging
Richard Parker, with Peter being her secret son--which was swept
under the continuity rug--she still got it on with both Edwin Jarvis and
JJJ's old man, right?
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Stephen Churay
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Greg, please stop. I quit reading the book over this kinda
stuff. You're depressing me.
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Greg Kirkman
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If I have to feel the pain, then we all feel the pain!


Osborn-Stacy twins! Deal with Mephisto! Iron-Spider! Incest! Morlun!
Aunt May sex! Organic web-shooters! Dildos! The Other! Spanish fly!
Kinky Black Cat sex! Killing Peter and MJ in SPIDER-GIRL! New
Avengers! Radioactive semen! Anal intercourse!


...okay, I may have thrown in a few ringers.
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Anthony J Lombardi
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Greg I want you to be joking. But you aren't joking are you.
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Only about the incest. I hope.
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