Except Bill Finger (age 24) created Batman. All Bob Kane did was swipe some artwork, take credit for it and cleverly sign a contract guaranteeing him years of payment for stories he didn't even have to draw. Clever yes, but not very admirable.

I for one am looking forward to it.

That's what I was saying when the Clone Saga went south -- "why not have the MJ that married Pete be a clone?" At that point, you'd only be "losing" 7 years of comic book continuity concerning the MJ character... and, you'd still have MJ return. And you'de have single Peter, without any mystical/magical explanations.

In my scenario, the real MJ was just jet setting around Europe, unaware her clone married Pete. The point where she got switched could have been interesting-- maybe MJ got cold feet and left Peter during their engagement, with a goodbye letter that he never received because whoever created "clone MJ" intercepted it.

It's all in how the idea is executed. Todd's idea could have worked, if it were executed well. In retrospect, we should have given it greater consideration and at least tried to create a scenario around it.

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He's drawing the upcoming Vigilante book at DC, with Marv Wolfman writing.

That's even worse than the Mephisto thing.

Now, is it too late to retcon the Gwen Stacy who slept with Norman Osborn into being the Gwen Stacy clone?

There were some fairly bad stories in the J.M.S. run-- Sins Past is by far the worst of the lot-- but even his worst stories don't compare to how awful the worst Clone Saga stories were. Hell, the worst J.M.S. stories don't even hold a candle to Paul Jenkins contemporary work in terms of sheer awfulness. In fact, the Jenkins stories were so much like certain J.M.S. stories that I wonder if fans may confuse them.

Oh, and Shooter DID create new characters right off the bat, and if the copyrights laws ever change (look what happened with Superboy) he could some day end up owning several LEGION characters. But again, not my point- only that in his case it WAS really amazing that he came up with such good stuff at such a young age!

Piece of crap! CRAP!, as it would say J.J. Jameson.

Up until the 26th Amendment was passed in 1971 the legal age for voting -- usually accepted as the test of adulthood -- was 21, not 18.

Shooter was definitely not an adult when he started out on the Legion, but he has declared that he has no intention of taking it up with DC at this late date.

The Time Loop thing would actually have been a better solution for the Clone Saga than what they did come up with. Though I still don't see Mephisto getting involved as a good idea. Seriously, Spidey should only run into that kind of menace when he's teaming up with Doctor Strange or similar characters.

Time travel, on the other hand, is part and parcel of what Rachel Summers has always been about, so I doubt that a miniseries covering her convoluted past would have been that confused -not to us comics fans, let's admit it. The ONE thing I never understood about the character, is why she kept wearing that horrible "Mutant Hound" costume for so long. It was like a Holocaust Survivor wearing her Prison Camp Tattoo numbers all over her clothing.

I think people will say that the last two years that Stracynski wrote of Spider-man was the worst Spider-man story of all time. Yes, even the clone saga had redeeming qualities. I read an issue of the BND stuff and realized I didn't recognize this guy and if he's the same idiot from the previous two years I didn't care.
I thought it was embarrasing how bad it was, how do you do a story where everyone finds out who Spider-man is and don't do it as the 'big' story and just have it as a small back story in the New Avengers crossover.