Spider-man Is DEEEEEAD!!!
To briefly summarize what I'm talking about: Amazing Spider-man #700 was the last issue because Doctor Octopus, who was terminally ill with, I dunno, metal tentacle cancer or something, switched minds with Spider-man to cheat death. And then Spider-man, in Doc Ock's body, died. But somehow Doc Ock has all of Peter Parker's memories. So the new ongoing series is called Superior Spider-man, where Doc Ock decides he's going to be a better Spider-man than Spider-man ever was.
No, I am not making this up.
And teh Marvel writers/editors/whoever swear this is going to be a long term thing. So, at least a year or something.
At this point I really wonder if I even have to jump around like a rage filled lunatic ranting about this. I mean, you have a pretty good idea of what my reaction to this is, right?
So I skipped out on Amazing Spider-man #700 because I don't really need all the details on how 50 years of Spider-man ends with him dying in a hospital bed, thanks. I did, however, get a copy of Superior Spider-man #1. Not really because I think the premise has merit, just so that I could at least say I read the damn thing when I'm freaking out over how much I hate it.
By the way, let me say that I picked mine up about a week after release, when it had well sold the fuck out. vulpes asked the girl behind the counter if they were carrying, and yes, they had some copies they'd scored hidden behind the counter, only slightly marked up from cover price. So I bought one, which after swearing I wouldn't tell nobody where I got it, she slid into a brown paper bag. Much less of that is me joking than you think it is.
Superior Spider-man #1 Review! blarg!: It's not terrible. In fact, if it had been Amazing Spider-man #701 it probably wouldn't of elicited a reaction from me at all. They even include Superior Spider-man being haunted by Peter Parker's ghost, so all the crybabies (like me) can rest assured that the status quo can be re-instated at any time.
Doc Ock is terribad at impersonating Spider-man. And by that I mean he puts zero effort into it at all. I think he falls just short of asking people to call him Otto.
Granted, mind switch has to be the best form of disguise, but considering everyone and their mother in the Marvel Universe knows psychic powers and weird alien powers and super science exist, you'd think he'd dial it down a little. Peter Parker was a nice guy. You're Doc Ocking it up over dinner with Mary Jane, you think she's not going to notice? Maybe call Reed Richards or something.
"Peter has been using the word 'imbeciles' alot..."
More than anything, this WHOLE NEW SPIDER-MAN bit seems like a gimmick to play up a storyline most of us probably would of ignored, and it worked. Amazing Spider-man #700 and Superior Spider-man #1 sold out. If it had been just ASM #701, I probably wouldn't of bothered getting it.
No, I am not making this up.
And teh Marvel writers/editors/whoever swear this is going to be a long term thing. So, at least a year or something.
At this point I really wonder if I even have to jump around like a rage filled lunatic ranting about this. I mean, you have a pretty good idea of what my reaction to this is, right?
So I skipped out on Amazing Spider-man #700 because I don't really need all the details on how 50 years of Spider-man ends with him dying in a hospital bed, thanks. I did, however, get a copy of Superior Spider-man #1. Not really because I think the premise has merit, just so that I could at least say I read the damn thing when I'm freaking out over how much I hate it.
By the way, let me say that I picked mine up about a week after release, when it had well sold the fuck out. vulpes asked the girl behind the counter if they were carrying, and yes, they had some copies they'd scored hidden behind the counter, only slightly marked up from cover price. So I bought one, which after swearing I wouldn't tell nobody where I got it, she slid into a brown paper bag. Much less of that is me joking than you think it is.
Superior Spider-man #1 Review! blarg!: It's not terrible. In fact, if it had been Amazing Spider-man #701 it probably wouldn't of elicited a reaction from me at all. They even include Superior Spider-man being haunted by Peter Parker's ghost, so all the crybabies (like me) can rest assured that the status quo can be re-instated at any time.
Doc Ock is terribad at impersonating Spider-man. And by that I mean he puts zero effort into it at all. I think he falls just short of asking people to call him Otto.
Granted, mind switch has to be the best form of disguise, but considering everyone and their mother in the Marvel Universe knows psychic powers and weird alien powers and super science exist, you'd think he'd dial it down a little. Peter Parker was a nice guy. You're Doc Ocking it up over dinner with Mary Jane, you think she's not going to notice? Maybe call Reed Richards or something.
"Peter has been using the word 'imbeciles' alot..."
More than anything, this WHOLE NEW SPIDER-MAN bit seems like a gimmick to play up a storyline most of us probably would of ignored, and it worked. Amazing Spider-man #700 and Superior Spider-man #1 sold out. If it had been just ASM #701, I probably wouldn't of bothered getting it.