Marvel Comics doesn't care about Spider-man Fans

Friday 2:30 pm at LA Wizard Con they held a panel were fans could ask questions of the team behind 'Spider-Mans Brand New Day!'

What I took away from it: the new team inherited a god awful storyline, their going back to what made Spider-Man 'Great', sales are up so get over it. This is the attitude that drove me from Marvel Comics from 1998 to 2005.

My greatest pet peeve about writing is the cop-out. When authors don't trust their carters enough to let them grow and move on they either change them so much their unrecognizable or they regress them back to avoid conflict.

Marvel's line on Spidey is that he needs to be that 20 something 'Every Man' that people can relate to. He needed to be unfettered by a wife so hew could relive those wacky years when he was perpetually standing-up dates (yawn). Why couldn't he get a divorce? Didn't test well in marketing. Then why not Kill off Mary Jane? Would effect the charter too adversely if her death was his fault. Sounds more like Joe Quesada didn't want to be the one people pointed to about the whole unmasking fiasco so a quick fix was thrown together and let the new guys deal with the mess. I just hope that's not a ramp with a shark behind it I see ahead.

The new team talks about how excited they are about bringing back old villains and the hi-jinks that will ensue. The one thing they were adamant about was aunt May will ALWAYS be park of the Spider-Man mythos. Spider-Man needs aunt May to worry over and remind him of how he failed to save her husband. I still don't see why they need aunt May for this role. It couldn't have easily been transferred to Mary Jane.

The thing I think Marvel is missing in this mess of a reboot is that now Pee Parker in his late twenties lives with his widowed aunt having no steady girlfriend or intimate relationships because he's to busy running around in tights tying up men in bizarre costumes.

He needs a wife and he needs one NOW!!!!!!!

-CJ