User blog:Gemnist/The Superior Spider-Man: Then and Now (Part 1)

Superior. One word, and Spider-Man fans across the country get caught up in neo-Western stand-offs (anyone a friend of Jonah Hex? The Lone Ranger? Somebody?). Over the course of what has been EXACTLY 15 months, it has been the focal point of all Marvel fans who actually read the comics (no matter how few there are) - and those who watched the second episode of the seventh season of The Big Bang Theory and happened to look the story up online. But now that it's over, what do we think of the comics in the series? What DID we think? What WILL we think? Well, I'm going to go ahead and give my opinions in the first of eight blog posts dedicated to each of the main series titles.

Please note, THERE ARE SPOILERS!

Don't continue if you haven't read.

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Sorry about this. I've just had complaints about my spoiler alerts.

And without further ado, let's begin:


 * 700: We have to start with this. This was the issue that started all the fan wars. All the death threats at Dan Slott. All the... good sales? What happened exactly? Here it is, if you don't already know - PETER PARKER DIED. Worse: Doc Ock inhabited his body Red Skull-style, and Peter died in Ock's body after getting thrown off Stark Tower by Ock. However, this gave Otto an epiphany - and he became the new Spider-Man. It makes sense to kill Peter in a different body since, as The Other proved, he CAN'T die in his body without coming back the following day. But that still etched a single thought through all fans' minds: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (cough cough) OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


 * 1: Okay, so it's good the Sinister Six are back. But having them mauled to death? Mixed feelings. And then have Otto start hitting on Mary Jane? Uh... there's a word for people like that: PEDOPHILE. And to think he once hit on Aunt May... Well, at least Peter is revealed to be alive in his own body!


 * 2: Just so we're clear, I hate Carlie Cooper. And I hate that J. Jonah Jameson is Mayor (that's like making Captain America "Commander-in-Chief America" - oh wait, that happened). And I hate One More Day even more. This issue shoved all this hate into a single action-unpacked story. Essentially, Otto says that he and MJ can't be together for her safety. J. Jonah Jameson actually LIKES the new ego Spider-Man has. And Carlie Cooper didn't die from a wound she got back in 700. Wowzers.


 * 3: The Bat-Signal parody? Hilarious. The fact that Jameson is actually WORKING with Spider-Man now? No where near funny. Same with the Vulture mauling. But now Carlie is suspicious. Hopefully this gets somewhere...