User blog comment:Mr. Xemnas/The guys at Marvel show their true colors/@comment-1751305-20130508205915/@comment-9297412-20130508231610

When i read Amazing Spider-Man, as boring as it was, it always able to satisfied me in the end. It's a fun read. When i read Superior Spi-Derman, it feels engaging, but it also leave this nagging feelings in my heart.

SSM is engaging, i admit. The way it was written create pretty much the opposite of what we view Spider-Man as series. For good-old Spider-Man, people are afraid of Spider-Man and hating on him while we, who know what kind of person this Spider-Man is, roots for him. For currently ongoing SSM, people are supportive of Spidey while we, who know what kind of person this "Spider-Man" is, are on guard and didn't trust him.

In almost all of his post, Mr. Slott always said that "Selfish Peter Parker is true Peter Parker". This statement is both correct and incorrect.

Corrects in that "He originally starts as a selfish dude". This is especially true, especially when he got his Power back during High School, the age where hormone starts to kicks in and when a kid's ego is at their biggest.

However, it also being incorrect that he will continue to be that selfish kid forever. Peter grew up as a person after his indifference cause his uncle's death.

The problem is that Mr. Slott attempts to portray Pete as this selfish kid. It is also especially clear when through Otto said "People cannot change". For Mr. Slott, he attempts to made this applied to both Pete and Ock.

His "selfish" act to prevents Ock from operating that little girl? That's a blatant character flanderization. Mr. Slott write it that way to reinforce Ock's status quo.

After facing all those trials and tribulations, there's no way that Pete never grow as a person. No way that he will be the selfish dude he started out with.

Why went all that trouble? For me there's 2 primary reason: It seems that Marvel intent to make new clean slate for Spider-Man as a franchise(in different way from OMD).
 * 1) 1. To 'reboot' status quo to Spider-Man franchise.
 * 1) 2. Probably to made Pete to be relatable to reader again when SSM is over.