You seemed to be defining the term in, well, your own terms... So to speak. :)

I don't think you were unsuccessful in conveying your thoughts. Your thoughts on the subject at hand just appear to be a little... odd.

No offense.

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I enjoy debating Paul, especially the good natured ones. But unfortunately I couldn't debate the subject. As much as I wish I could I don't recall which titles they were. It wasn't at any one point that I saw the titles. It was spread out over the course of several trips to the comic store. Which I don't do very often. So it would have happened over a long period of time. When I was making regular trips to the store. I was going once a month. Usually when Previews came out.  

The best I could do was to narrow it down to titles being published by Marvel. As that was typically the  company I gravitated towards.

I wish I could debate this because It could actually prove helpful to me. If the debate could help me break that association I've made that would be great.  If too much time doesn't pass before my maybe remembering some of the titles I'll mention it here. But if it takes too long I won't. I don't want to derail the thread again. If it gets back on track.

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...wait, what?

lots of good points and opinions...

one main thing im taking away (besides the usual comics-suck-these-days) and forming an opinion on, based on the initial few posts about the tycoon peter parker, is that since spider-man was created way back in the 60s how far can you take him? should a character age in the comics and follow a timeline, or should the character remain static and be perpetually around the age as first introduced? and both have there own set of problems, especially since we are viewing it from hindsight.

i think after all these years it would be hard to maintain interest in a high school age peter parker. taking 20-30 yrs to gradually get him up to college age and then freezing there is kind of what ive pictured all this time. (oh and maybe add in the idea of showing how much time has passed between issues as a way to accomplish either goal). one big problem marvel created is having all those titles with spider-man back then. seems these days its all about alternate versions. starting maybe with Iron Man 2020 for marvel? 

its too bad they didn't stick with one, maybe two, titles. stick to the idea of him at a certain age (post high school) and throw in the occasional future peter story if a writer presented one that merited publishing.

sometimes i think they should just stop monthly issues all-together and just make mini-series. half the time those are the books i like the most. Future Imperfect might be a good example. ahh actually that leads me to realize the fact that after all these years comics as a chronological canon based idea are so fucked up there is no saving them. too much has been done at this point to ever make everyone happy, movies included. it basically seems like theyll put out anything they think will sell. 

i feel i have to point out, that i havent looked at a new issue rack at a LCS in a while. at least not with the intention of buying anything. i may be a little overdue to do that. so my knowledge of whats going on is a little lacking. but when i hear there's yet another version of spider-man coming out (after another version of Secret Wars, after another version of the FF, after another X-men VS Avengers...) it certainly doesn't make me, a 45 yr old guy, want to go look into it.