User blog:99spidey99/What are your ideas of Marvel rebooting with "NOW"?

Ok, I know that DC made big bank with the "New 52" reboot, and we all thought that Marvel would follow on some books that have gone stale, but a complete shake-up was un-warranted in my eyes.

I'm a Spider-man guy, I have 1000's a SM books, and when they killed off Peter Parker in the Ultimate Universe and brought in a new SM, that was it, I was done with that series. Now, I DID buy the death books and variants and even the first few issues of the new series but I could not keep up with it. Peter Parker has ALWAYS been Spider-man!! I'm not saying that he's always had top notch stories (I admit the 90's were tough) but I stuck with them and I have about 630 of the 700 Amazing Spiderman books and a ton of variants. However, now that they are ending ASM with #700 and starting a new series with a new SM? I don't know, I'm pissed!!

The idea that they are shaking every book up, bringing in non writers to write some books (Brian Poeshan? However you spell his name) and starting new backgrounds for some of our most beloved heros....WTF?!?

I'm STILL pissed about the stunt Marvel pulled in the 90's when they did that renumbering BS and had ASM Vol. 2 starting with a new #1 then dual numbers, then "Hero's Reborn". ENOUGH!! I'm going to buy all the #1's and give them a shot, and I'm even excited to hear the "new" Spider-man will be a darker, grittier SM ala Batman, but as a new series, NOT as THE series!! I've already read #700 online and I'm NOT impressed, I hate it!! Maybe it's just that I'm 37 and have been hanging out with Peter Parker so long that I'm going to miss him, or maybe I'm just sick of Marvel (and DC) forgetting about their core readers (again, and again) and how they are rebooting the system over again to lure new readers....maybe this will be the end of my "New book buys" and I'll concentrate all of my time and money into completing the 40 titles I've been working on all these years.

Tell me what you think. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm just having those feelings you get when you get dumped by your chick, or maybe I'm no longer on Earth 616 and I'll wake up and this was all just a bad dream and Yancy Street Comics will have ASM #701 on the rack in January....I can only hope.

Cheers!