for your consideration
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Gobo talking about Spider-Man and recalling serveral conversations with Spider-Man fans.
Honestly I stopped collecting Spider-Man about the same time I went to the University. I would still pick up an occasional issues here and there. But I became totally tuned off by the concept of the character after time. I blame alot of the later facination on the stylized artwork of Todd McFarlane instead of quality. I had really slipped into a colector/hoarder type back in those days.
Why did I give up on the character?
While it might be the whole style versus substance thing.. I think it really comes down to a simple fact about the character....
Once you are grown-up, and you realize that you have a better life than Peter Parker, the whole idea of Spider-Man becomes redundant and pitiful.
The whole concept of Spider-Man is the power fantasy. How to use your powers to do incredible things and make things right. The obstacles of his relationships, money woes, family, and identity are just ways to drag out the drama.
Spider-Man worked great as a teenage nerd. Not so much as a 20 something married man. Then his life just seems depressing. Furthermore, you take in the hypocricy of his creedo "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility". How could a married man with a wife and kid (a kid who died or might have been kidnapped due to him being Spider-Man) still endanger himself and others when his "great responsibility" is now his loved ones? How can he shrink from the "great power" of being a husband to go play grab ass with fat men in stretchy-pants?
In real life you should hate this guy for playing superhero. When he ignores his other duties of life. You know that dead uncle of his would be ashamed of him now.
So that is why Spider-Man doesn't work for me anymore. The fantasy faded. I grew up.
(Don't even get me started on Superman)
Gobo talking about Spider-Man and recalling serveral conversations with Spider-Man fans.
Honestly I stopped collecting Spider-Man about the same time I went to the University. I would still pick up an occasional issues here and there. But I became totally tuned off by the concept of the character after time. I blame alot of the later facination on the stylized artwork of Todd McFarlane instead of quality. I had really slipped into a colector/hoarder type back in those days.
Why did I give up on the character?
While it might be the whole style versus substance thing.. I think it really comes down to a simple fact about the character....
Once you are grown-up, and you realize that you have a better life than Peter Parker, the whole idea of Spider-Man becomes redundant and pitiful.
The whole concept of Spider-Man is the power fantasy. How to use your powers to do incredible things and make things right. The obstacles of his relationships, money woes, family, and identity are just ways to drag out the drama.
Spider-Man worked great as a teenage nerd. Not so much as a 20 something married man. Then his life just seems depressing. Furthermore, you take in the hypocricy of his creedo "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility". How could a married man with a wife and kid (a kid who died or might have been kidnapped due to him being Spider-Man) still endanger himself and others when his "great responsibility" is now his loved ones? How can he shrink from the "great power" of being a husband to go play grab ass with fat men in stretchy-pants?
In real life you should hate this guy for playing superhero. When he ignores his other duties of life. You know that dead uncle of his would be ashamed of him now.
So that is why Spider-Man doesn't work for me anymore. The fantasy faded. I grew up.
(Don't even get me started on Superman)