User blog comment:Q-Swizzle 15/Everyone hates Slott/@comment-4772145-20130106034817/@comment-4772145-20130108150236

The answer is quite simple: Because we care for Peter Parker way more than any other cmimc book character. Peter is the kind of character you don't "Look up to" but the kind of character you can "connect to", to know that you felt the things he did, the hardships he went through and the way he died made us feel that way (and I'm talking about the devoted Spider-Man fans who followed most of, if not all of his adventures). That a role model for so many died in an unceremoniusly way is something that can cause quite an outrage, but like you said, it's what the story was meant to do, to makes us feel the emotion (positive for some, negative for others).

We all know that Peter will be back, but some of us will simply wait until this thing gets over and won't watch how the damage will be done until Peter returns (because there will be damage to the integrity of the Peter Parker we knew) or simply beacuase it's not even worth giving the chance to Otto to see how he'll try (because in my opinion that's all what he'll do...try, yet not succeed) to redeem himself