Well, he's plunging straight toward the ground and then makes a 90 degree turn just a few feet from going splat. 
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Maybe I am missing a page, but I don't see a 90 degree turn you mentioned.  The largest panel shows him coming in at an angle and swooping upwards before hitting the ground. 

Of course if someone makes up their mind not to like something before they read the story, it probably doesn't matter much anyway.

Andrew W. Farago wrote: ...as I've said before, the marriage is way, way down on the list of things that need to be fixed or changed to make Spider-Man a "can't miss" book again.

The only thing that says to me, Andrew, is that we have different lists, not that your list is definitive, absolute, or the last word.

As to the Spider-totem, god, fate crap JMS has shoveled on the character?  You're far more optimistic than I that it will revert to status quo when JMS eventually leaves the title.

After everything I've read in this Forum, I'm too scared to even crack the cover on a Spider Man comic these days (a sad thing, but true). Seems as if Spidey has become another 'cosmic' character, instead of the more 'street level' hero of old.

Joe - You're right about that. I'm very wary of Spider man now, rightly or wrongly.

the Spider-totem, god, fate crap JMS has shoveled on the character

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I'm with you on that Matt.  I 'm a Chapter 1 type of guy myself. Retooling, revamping and not rehashing.  A bright update but true to the spirit of the original Spider-Man.

Maybe I am missing a page, but I don't see a 90 degree turn you mentioned.  The largest panel shows him coming in at an angle and swooping upwards before hitting the ground. 

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You are partially right. The panel you describe shows exactly what you describe. The thing is, however, that comics isn't just one image, it is a sequene of images. You cannot point out one image and draw a conclusion, you have to consider all the elements/panels. So, The first panel in the page shows him coming down vertically, since the artist included a black building silhouette. This, in my mind at least, confuses the point the artist is trying to make. I could argue that he took artistic liberty in the last panel and drew a curve and not an angle. The confusion gets worse since the curved line in panel 3 is actually behind panels 1 and 2, where Spider-Man's descent is clearly vertical!

(BTW, Why any writer would be intrested to depict Spider-Man stories and have him glide or fly is beyond me. This is a posiible discussion between writer and editor:

"I want to tell a story where Spider-Man flies"

"But he doesn't fly!"

"Not yet. He-he-he")

Sure they would. Tons of people bought X-Men in the late 90s while bitching about the stories. Tons of people bought X-Men during the Austen run while decrying how horrible a writer he was. How many people on this thread complaining about "Sins Past" and "The Other" still ended up buying all those issues? Comic fans can be pathologically loyal to characters and their titles despite what is being done with them.
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Ok. I'll say it again. What proof or evidence do you have that "fans" dislike Spider-man in the New Avengers.

You dislike it.  But where is your proof of everone else?  People questioned it. But since it has happened? You here very little against it.

I have never grasped why people buy stuff they don't like.....