@zariusii said:
@magnetic_eye said:
@jimishim12 said:
@magnetic_eye said:
Spidey is now a composite of Tony Stark / Bruce Wayne and James Bond. Wooo Hooo!!! That's bound to put some integrity and individualism back into the title.......NOT.
Scuse me? How is that not giving him integrity and individualism, he's finally.....................cool. And he doesn't have to be 007 or Bats explicitly.
You're excused. That's great that Peter is finally cool. He's been cool lots of times before. But IMO, I don't trust the Slott Machine to write a mature, debonair Peter Parker. If his previous writings are anything to go by, get set once again for simplistic cartoon dialogue and an uncharacteristic Spider-Man; this time emulating Tony Stark with gadgets and gimmickry.
If it was any other writer, then maybe......just maybe, but otherwise this looks like another cringe worthy moment in the annals of post OMD Spidey.
Nine months since this was posted and I feel your points have been pretty much validated. Slott's James Bond Parker Poser has been nothing but an outlandish, animated weaksauce 80s Saturday morning tool, with no a trace of real nuance or substance to show for it. I was reading the Crawlspace comments section on one review and one idiot had the gall to say "if it's fun, it's fine"...and that was really all he had to say in defense of it. It felt more like he was just throwing his hands in the air, aware of how dumb it's gotten, and was just accepting the book "as is".
I mean, don't get me wrong, I do very much the same thing with the newspaper strip (chiefly because it has a great handle on the marriage and Peter still acts like Peter), but that doesn't mean I don't want it to be better than it is, especially after reading how good the strip was in the 70s.
These days, Marvel's audiences don't want to be challenged or be permitted to think. It's the same with their movies, it's the same with their cartoons. This is why, in spite of their flaws with the New 52 and their cinematic universe, I'd pick DC and their "interesting failures" than Marvel and their "amber vision" any day of the week.
It's interesting that most newbies who like the current ASM bordello probably haven't read a lot of different Spider-Man titles pre OMD, when most Marvel writers respected all of Peter Parker's original character traits.
This current generic, watered down Parker has character traits that are composites gathered from some of his non comic book alter egos, hence the confusion amongst newbies who think this is how he should be. I couldn't care less about other media interpretations of the character, because they usually fall short of the mark. I am however looking forward to Tom Holland's take in MCU.
The very reason I began reading comics from the age of ten, was that it did challenge my thinking as well as entertain. Good writing should exercise the mind, it is vitally important and of a necessity, making the whole experience a valuable and memorable one. As I got older I appreciated the writers and artists who skillfully put the effort into the books they worked on. I just feel dumber and the experience cheapened when I read Slott's Spider-Man.
The notion that ASM should just be a lighthearted fun romp and nothing more is a fallacy. ASM was never just about fun and nothing else. The book has a respectable ground breaking history, the stories a fine balance of drama, action, humor and slice of life realism.
Good writing has personality. Slott’s writing is extremely inconsistent and infantile with no mastery of writing techniques. It lacks substance and is void of any skillful prose. His personality and so called writing strikes me as that of a ten year old bully trying to act the class clown.
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