InsaneJournal

Tweak says, "It's not me, it's YOU."

Doop (xdoop) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-23 09:58:00

Entry tags:

char: spider-man/peter parker, creator: ed brubaker, creator: marcos martin, creator: mike mckone, creator: stan lee, publisher: marvel comics, title: amazing spider-man

Amazing Spider-Man #600

In one of the back-up stories, by Stan Lee and Marcos Martin, Spidey is talking about his problems to a beleaguered therapist.

The next page shows the traumatized therapist in therapy himself.

Plus, one of the issue's "Amazing Spider-Man covers you'll never see!"

(Read comments) - (Post a new comment)

stolisomancer
2009-07-23 11:53 pm UTC (link)

It's because they know that a big chunk of their readership are going to complain violently about any goddamn thing they do, but they'll still keep buying the book.

Meanwhile, whenever they actually try new things - new characters, changing the old ones, new stories, non-superhero work - they're punished for it even if the books thusly produced are good. Quesada started out his run at Marvel as a very experimental EIC - Morrison's X-Men, the Tsunami line, a move towards pulp-style adventure and away from express superheroics - and almost none of it worked. Their fans demand new things, but not too new; they want everything to stay the same, but complain about reversed deaths and retcons.

I'm not sure I would deliberately antagonize the fanbase to this extent, but good Lord I know why he's doing it. The biggest problem comics have today are half the people reading comics.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	unknownscribler 2009-07-24 08:36 am UTC (link)
	Part of the key is speed -- change, but at a pace it can be adapted to. (Reply to this) (Parent)

(Read comments) -