I think it's totally unimaginative and it will reach a point where a stupid explanation/solution will be needed. Then the writer who fixes it will be considered lame. This is the finest example of selfish and sloppy writing/editing/ whatever.

If you have tocome to the point to take an eye out of your biggest gun just to have people talking, you really are in trouble.

Between the Gwen/Norman affair, Gwen's kids, organic webshooters, losing an eye etc, it seems pretty evident they have no intension to write good Spider-Man stories, they only aim to shock the audience.

I will definetely pass....

OK, here's my response to whoever it was above that defended this maiming of Spider-Man by saying it should have "long-lasting" effects:

Wrong.  It just means someday another writer will have to write a corny story about how Peter was able to grow back his eyeball.... or how it wasn't really Peter it was a clone/actor/alien....or how SHIELD or Mr. Fantastic was able to create a synthetic eyeball that is just as good as a real one so there's no need to reference it anymore.

No one at MARVEL seems to get the idea that they are playing with other peoples' toys....they continue to break them.....I believe more than ever that soon there will be no toys to play with and no one to really care about it anyway.

QUOTE: Ahem... excuse me, but there was no slippage... editorial directive at the time... I HATED having stories continue from one book to the next!

Im glad to know that Howard.  That was the only thing that bothered me when reading Amazing. 

But I want to compliment you.  I really enjoyed your writing on the book.  You really went along way to fiing many of the problems that had plagued Spider-Man.  Such as managing to make him seem younger. 

You had the right balance of making him seem like a young man, but someone who had been around the block before.  

I'm just glad they're continuing to make sure my kids can't read Spider-Man. Imagine if Spider-Man was family-friendly. How uncool would that be? Not to mention opening the title up to a much, much larger market. That would be so stupid.

And if the stories hadn't crossed over, they wouldn't be able to reprint the same issues at least twice in at least two different Essentials runs, like X-Men and X-Factor and Thor and Power Pack. I mean, I know these books are cheap, but I read half these issues last month.

IMP.

And if someone pulls out your eye, do you scream,"Noooo!" or do you scream like a girl and lose consciousness? Since we're being all adult and stuff.

IMP.

OK, here's my response to whoever it was above that defended this maiming of Spider-Man by saying it should have "long-lasting" effects:

Wrong.  It just means someday another writer will have to write a corny story about how Peter was able to grow back his eyeball.... or how it wasn't really Peter it was a clone/actor/alien....or how SHIELD or Mr. Fantastic was able to create a synthetic eyeball that is just as good as a real one so there's no need to reference it anymore.

No one at MARVEL seems to get the idea that they are playing with other peoples' toys....they continue to break them.....I believe more than ever that soon there will be no toys to play with and no one to really care about it anyway.
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The short-term consequences of Spider-Man losing his eye will be learning to get used to living without them. The long-term consequences (even if his eye is repaired- which will almost certainly happen) will have him remembering how much he can lose every time he puts on the costume in a way no physical injury has managed to do..

I think the maiming of Spider-Man is a great idea. Even better would be him losing the "family jewels". Imagine the endless story possibilities:

Peter: "I'm not half the man I used to be."

Mary-Jane: "Oh Peter, I'll still love you."

Peter: "Do you really mean that, MJ? Could you still love a man who fights super-villains but can't take care of your ... needs?"

Mary-Jane: "You still have those cute organic web-shooters."

Peter: "Why yeah, I didn't think of ..."

Wolverine: "Hey Red, I'm ridin' out. You coming?"

Mary-Jane: "Be right there, Mr. Logan!"

Peter: "sigh."
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While the Underwhelming Spider-eunuch does have a ring to it, and it would add poignancy to every flashback in which Peter gets lucky,  it would make you look at the character too differently. Yes, I am responding too seriously to a sarcastic (and funny) comment.

Which part of his abilities doesn't rely on depth perception?

Leaping - oops, into that wall.
Swinging - oops, into that truck.
Shooting - oops, missed that flagpole entirely.

Unless he gets a bionic replacement, they grow a clone eye, it heals, or it's a dream sequence, then they've just destroyed the character.
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The eye will be fixed soon enough. And this may just result in him using his spider sense more, so the loss of depth perception may not be that important.

Between the Gwen/Norman affair, Gwen's kids, organic webshooters, losing an eye etc, it seems pretty evident they have no intension to write good Spider-Man stories, they only aim to shock the audience.

I will definetely pass....
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Marvel has published some good Spider-Man stories in the last year. See Spider-Man/ Human Torch. There are many other great stories, but they're not as universally beloved.

The sound effect is funny... "squitch".

F.

But...Morlun must be a major threat, since he ate a piece of Spider-Man, and no one else has ever done that. Right?