Victor, you need to add the words "to me" to your first sentance.

Of course what I don't get is why anyone would read twenty years of something they found so awful. That never makes sense to me.

Victor- For the sake of arguement we will say that the stories for the last 20 years since he got married were bad. In general, that is absolutely false, but we will assume for the arguement.

Was it that particular issue that was the demarcation? Did the week after that Annual come out start with a horrible book? If so, what was so horrible about that book that was markedly diferent from the month before that to the extent that you can make that claim?

In an issue of Marvel Knights Spider-Man, Peter attended his 10 year high school reunion. So that ages him to at least 28.

The simple reason you don't age an iconic character. Sooner or later you are going to have to continue the growth and let the character become old and die. If you are not going to show the entire journey of the character, there is no real reason to ever age the character. Just pick a time and tell your stories from that vantage point. Stan and Steve picked the awkward teen-age years for this character. Anything different and you would have had a different character. That's why you have other heroes that may be older. They are not Spider-Man. Making him older and married make for great What If? stories, they just don't make great Spider-Man stories.

I believe Marvel made a mistake in letting Peter marry Mary Jane. I believe no matter what "out" they used it wouldn't have made the pro-marriage fans happy.

QUOTE: Victor- For the sake of arguement we will say that the stories for the last 20 years since he got married were bad. In general, that is absolutely false, but we will assume for the arguement.

No it is not false. Most Spider-Man books in the last twenty years have been terrible. There have been a few exceptions. But in general they have been terrible.

The wedding was a symptom of a greater sickness.

Gregg you are playing a shell game here. Trying to say "But can you prove him being married made the book worse?" When they answer you say "Thats just your opinon."

QUOTE: Of course what I don't get is why anyone would read twenty years of something they found so awful. That never makes sense to me.

Which is why I have not. I did read the Spider-Man books off and on as a child. But thats because I did not know any better. Once I discovered Marvel Tales and Spider-Man Classics, I rarely if ever looked at the current books.

Fred this is the only comics forum I post on.

Paul wrote: ...Peter attended his 10 year high school reunion. So that ages him to at least 28....

Well, at least 27. I graduated at 17, myself.

Paul wrote: ...The simple reason you don't age an iconic character. Sooner or later you are going to have to continue the growth and let the character become old and die. If you are not going to show the entire journey of the character, there is no real reason to ever age the character. Just pick a time and tell your stories from that vantage point....

Sounds like common sense, to me.

Shell game

So Victor, you are saying most Spider-Man stories over the past 20 years ahve been terrible, but you also say you haven't read them??  Hmmmm. 

Hmmm...sounds like a load a manure overall.  So you really can't even honestly say "To you" the stories have mostly been bad, because "you" haven't read them.

Shell game