User blog comment:Q-Swizzle 15/Everyone hates Slott/@comment-4772145-20130106034817/@comment-3317214-20130108214155

Hey, man. I'm one of those guys that cares for Spidey more than the others. I connect to him. I was that guy. I was the nerdy kid who got picked on. And I highly doubt that anyone was meant to feel positive emotions from this storyline. And I agree with you on how Otto will try, and it'll just damage Peter's integrity.

But man, he has to fall to rise again. If he has a low, it makes his return that much more glorious. You can skip "Superior Spider-Man", but in my opinion, you won't enjoy the real Peter's return as much as someone who read it. (I might also just throw it out there that I hate that you're not even giving this book a chance before you've sworn never to read it. That's close-minded man, and that's probably my least favourite thing.)

But What kind of story has him being happy all the time? He's always had issues going on, whether it was being bullied, financial troubles, relationships, bad guys finding out his secret identity... He got himself into some real pickles. And this one tops (or bottoms?) them all. He's dead and one of his enemies is going around impersonating him.

Of course he didn't deserve it. What he deserves as a real person, is a happy life. But his fictional story has the potential to last forever. He's gotta have some low points to make the story remotely interesting. Otherwise it'd just be Sesame Street with people in costumes. And his death followed by one of his enemies going around impersonating him. That will cause damage to his integrity, sure, but one day, he'll be back, and it'll be much more glorious because of the damage Otto does.