This guy realllly doesn't approve of the storyline:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjN0ThpswRc

The best thing that could come up once/if Quesada gets fired is that JB may return to Marvel. This would be reason enough for me to hope the stroyline fails...

Unfortunately, that's not the only reason. As it is at the moment, I am dropping Marvel titles one by one. Spider-Girl, Daredevil and Runaways are the only ones picking my interest.

Hey, they should've had some Mary Jane secret admirer (with super-villain ties) sneak into the FF building, and use Reed's time platform to go back in time and stop the wedding!

It's genius, I tell ya....<g>

Nothing more to say except "SIGH"

Take heart, group.  MJ and Peter are still married in the newspaper comic strip. 

(available for viewing at www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComics.mpl )

Personally, I think the OMD and the deal with the devil thing was stupid (plus it dragged on for 4 issues!). Plus, when reboots are done, don't things like Harry Osborn negate a ton of stories, which are now not in any sort of continuity?  The whole thing with the New Avengers stint doesn't make any sense now.  Plus, Jarvis and Aunt May are gettin' it on!

Why not just reboot the whole Marvel Universe back to a time when continuity and characters weren't screwed up?  (Oh wait, that's not allowed).

DC isn't really immune to this either.  Countdown to FINAL Crisis?  Yeah, right.  I'm sure this will be the FINAL Crisis ever!!!

In reply to a post one page back where the poster hopes that this event will push away all of the "want change and growth" readers to make room for new fans.

How about pushing away all of the "I want the charachter to be the same as when I was 15 and I don't want to see or allow anyone else to see anything but that" to make room for new readers who may like their charachters to evolve and grow during the course of the story?

It all comes down to this....

Will new readers be more inclined to pick up and stay with a book that has the charachter at point "A" in their life, attitude, etc and tells stories exclusively in that niche.....

or

Will new readers be more inclines to pick up and stay with a book that has the charachter at point "A" in their life, explore what that means to the charachter and how they act during the stories, then show them moving on to point "B", tell stories from that perspective, then procede to point "C" etc.

If you say that there is an endless supply of stories about Peter Parker as the teenage insecure down on his luck kid, then I reply that there is an equally endless supply of stories about Peter Parker as the kind of getting his life together early 20's guy, and an equally endless supply of stories about Peter Parker the family man in his late 20's with a wife and kid. You may say that YOU only want to read the first section, and that is fine. I like them too. I however ALSO like the second and third options. How is it that anyone can say with any credibility that all of the people out there that MIGHT start reading spider-man are being kept away because currently they aren't reading what YOU want to read?

But wait...this conversation on this board translates into me being "selfish" because I like to read what I like.

If the latest issue is any question, it doesn't seem like Amazing Spider-Man is going to be following the "done in one" formula no matter what Peter's status is, so I don't think that's a fair question.

If you want to do a TV analogy, it would be more accurate to wonder if people would rather watch a random episode of Buffy season 2 or Buffy Season 6.