There was nothing wrong with post reboot pre JMS Spider-Man stories.

Apart from fundamentally changing the basic nature of the character, you mean?

Let's just say that I hope a young Peter is found in suspended animation in a cocoon at the bottom of a lake waiting to be awoken...

Then the "Spider-Force" with it's funky work done can go back to the webs hung between the universes and all will be well.

Next up: Spidey lays eggs. 

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Nah. The Black Widow seduces him and eats him.

"Even so, if there are 80% or more that hate the story, does this mean that the story should never be published in the first place? Should the readers that absolutely adore "The Other" be denied of their great reading experience, because the "true", hardcore Spider-Man fans dislikes it?"

If I'm a publisher and 80% of the audience hates a story, I ain't gonna publish it.

I'll be very interested in seeing what sort of reaction this has amongst readers.  Let's face it, the current all-hardcore comic audience has a long track record of buying stuff they don't like or loudly complaining about stuff they continue to buy.  But even comic fans have their limits.  It'll be ironic if JMS, the big-name guy brought in to pump up sales (which he did, at least by current standards) ends up taking Spider-Man sales right back in the dumper because the creative control M****l ceeded to him.

Mike

Also remember that Peter started wrapping himself in a web fluid cocoon during the wretched (and mercifully short lived) "I am the Spider" period that, IIRC, ran for a few issues in the lead-up to the Clone Saga.

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The Clone Saga kicks the holy ass of every story written during the JMS/Quesada Spider-Man era, and I'm not just saying that because Mackie and Greenberg might read this!

The Clone Saga had many sins: overlong, derivative villains who weren't right for the character (Judas Traveller -- I read somewhere an editor's comments about this villain's MO: "He wants to understand the true nature of evil. Oooh-kay, that's a little vague."), but at the core of it, Spider-Man was still Spider-Man -- even when he wasn't Spider-Man or even the original Spider-Man anymore.

This whole supernatural mumbjo-jumbo with Spider-Man as some sort of animalistic predator is *not* Spider-Man.

And I'd defend the "I am the Spider" period because it is at least a logical progression of Peter using Spider-Man as an escape -- in this case, his life had gotten so bad that he wanted to be Spider-Man all the time and abandon his Peter Parker identity (the main problem with this story was that it didn't work if Peter is married. I would think he'd be more responsible to his wife to now allow himself to become so self-indulgent).