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I would like to lookup what happened, is there an issue that broke it for you?
Brand. New. Day.
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I would like to lookup what happened, is there an issue that broke it for you?
Yeah, Venom is a terrible character from a time when Marvel was just churning out really poor villains like Apocalyse and Mr. Sinister. Oddly enough, modern Mr. Sinister is a pretty fun character.I didn't mind Spidey eventually ditching the symbiote suit, I liked it, but I also love the original red and blue more, but I always hated Venom - he's such a DC villain ("Spider-man, but EEEEEVIL, like Reverse-Flash, Bizarro Superman, etc). Thematically, that place was already occupied by the shamefully under-used Scorpion. And then Carnage...eeeuugh
That was when I accepted the character I grew up with was well and truly gone forever.
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I guess just further confirmation that the modern Spidey is not the same character.
I'm not really a comics guy, so tell me if I'm way off base. From my observation, any popular character in super hero comics is destined to be 'officially' drawn and written by two dozen very different people over multiple decades. Inevitably the stories swing from tone to tone and accumulate stuff like parallel dimensions, time travel, clones, what if scenarios, amnesia, publicity stunt 'deaths', and a variety of soft/hard reboots.
A sense of continuity under those circumstances is kind of a subjective personal project, isn't it? Don't you just sort of keep the story beats you like as part of your conception of the character and subconsciously write-out the rest, until you get to an 'era' you mostly don't like and just wait for the next reboot, soft or otherwise?
So I don't understand the idea of a character like that being 'gone forever' in someone's mind.
I mean, to me Spiderman seems to be like James Bond (something I actually am familiar with): Continuity stopped making sense as a priority for him a long time ago, but I still like to watch the character having new adventures. If I don't like a particular incarnation or 'episode' I might like the next one, it's not like I'm concerned about him somehow being in his mid-thirties for 58 years.
I don't mean this to sound like I'm making light of your feelings by the way.
Brand. New. Day.
Yeah, I've always enjoyed Shocker's quilted look and the armbands. I like a lot of Spidey's C-stringers - the workhorse villains that are somewhere between henchman and supervillain - Shocker, Boomerang, Beetle, etc.
I really love what Spectacular Spider-man did, pairing Shocker with The Enforcers
That Peter Parker acted his age. When BND happened, it’s like they de-aged him back to when he was 21.
Yeah, Venom is a terrible character from a time when Marvel was just churning out really poor villains like Apocalyse and Mr. Sinister. Oddly enough, modern Mr. Sinister is a pretty fun character.
I haven't been keeping up with Spiderman lore, but didn't the original Spiderman (who turned out to be a clone of the original Peter Parker) retire and pass the torch to the original who was living under the name Ben Reilly?I like the idea and visual design of Spider-Gwen, but I still find it odd that Peter has no reaction to hanging around with his old dead GF that he blames himself for the death of...
I guess just further confirmation that the modern Spidey is not the same character.
I haven't been keeping up with Spiderman lore, but didn't the original Spiderman (who turned out to be a clone of the original Peter Parker) retire and pass the torch to the original who was living under the name Ben Reilly?
Sadly, over time, characters and stories become 'properties' and they lose a lot in that transition.
For the lazy writer, "Superman would never do that," is just asking for a ",but what if he did," story.
So that's why I say the character I grew up with doesn't exist anymore.
uh....no. I almost got into the convoluted history of the Clone Saga, but that wouldn't make me happy. Long story short, Ben was the clone all along, everything that happened was pointless.