Hydrocodone….

My god, what a strange, bleak future we live in…

Eh, whatever. Enjoy the righteousness of your clique.

Hey, enjoy the self-righteousness of running from blog to blog, reading one post and judging all with in!

I wonder how many people have come to the front page of CBR and seen – and taken as the gospel truth – this lengthy title, which it turns out is making at best an incomplete and at worst a plain incorrect assertion?

It isn’t on the front page of CBR, it’s on the front page of Comic Should Be Good, a blog hosted by CBR, but a separate entity.
And nothing should be taken as gospel, as it’s a collection of the contributers opinions.

The only one making incorrect assertions is… you.

I wonder how many people have come to the front page of CBR and seen – and taken as the gospel truth – this lengthy title, which it turns out is making at best an incomplete and at worst a plain incorrect assertion?

What would have been new was letting Aunt May die …for real this time.

But it’s a free country. That’s what Captain America died for, right?

Until then…keep bopping up to the counter shelling out $3.00 every other week and smiling thinking…man this Jackpot character is really cool while the piper music continues to play.

Support intelligent and creative efforts and save your money for the gas tank. ”

Yes, because it obviously coudn´t be so easy that people actually dig the new direction. There simply HAS to be a hivemind at work.

“And if memory serves me correctly about that story (and I haven’t read it in over a decade) the webbing he made from that was inferior in quality and didn’t work.”

It was inferior in quality, yes, but not drastically so, and he was able to afford “standard-issue” webbing while working at a coffee shop as a barista. Two grand for webbing is an absurd figure, given what we know of Peter’s historical income and expenditures. At that rate, he’d never be able to break even taking pictures of himself in action as Spidey, let alone turn a profit.

No, I’m Mopeeing away that whole notion.

Support intelligent and creative efforts and save your money for the gas tank.

The jury is still out on Harry. I don’t think it was a good idea to bring him back. I would have rather seen a new character introduced to fulfill the “best friend” role. I think all the types of Green Goblin stories that can be told with Harry have been pretty much told. They should have let Harry rest in peace.

But having said all that -

One change that is reflected in BRAND NEW DAY is that Peter isn’t so tied down to one person regarding his supporting cast. When you are dealing with a married Spidey, its hard to justify going multiple issues spanning days without having him (or the reader) checking in with his wife – which often doesn’t add much to the story, its just something you are obliged to do with a married character. Without the marriage, Spidey’s life seems a lot more dynamic and he is more free to interact with ALL of his supporting cast members, as opposed to being mostly tied to ONE member of his supporting cast.

I can’t really say I have missed MJ. I sincerely hope MJ isn’t JACKPOT. Geeze, that’s dumb. Let her retain some dignity.

but thats all been negated now so
parker luck = being poor without a wife

If Pete’s webbing was so expensive, how did he afford it all those years as a struggling high school and college student?

Theft.

Seriously, he could afford it because nobody really gave much thought to what chemicals actually cost. So it was effectively free.

Two thousand seems a little on the high side, but I don’t think it’s completely unrealistic. It’d depend on the specific chemicals, the companies he’d have to deal with, the shipping costs, whatever costs might be involved with obfuscating his purchases, and (most importantly) the quantities involved.

I can see why it might, for continuity’s sake, be preferable not to revisit the issue (or visit it in the first place), but if they were to do so . . . I think they could make worse estimates.

Even if MJ started speaking out on body issues, she probably would still be able to find work.

Wait, this was about Spider-Man, right?

Mullon, of course, has yet to learn the whole “different people have differing opinions” business…