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Doop (xdoop) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-06 08:33:00

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char: jewel/jessica jones, char: mary jane watson, char: spider-man/peter parker, creator: brian michael bendis, creator: joe quesada, creator: mario alberti, creator: mark waid, publisher: marvel comics, title: amazing spider-man

Amazing Spider-Man #601

Mary Jane sets a date with Peter, but when he gets there she never shows up.

There's also a back-up story by Bendis and Quesada, where Jessica Jones tells Peter how she was there when he fought Sandman at their high school (from Amazing Spider-Man #4; it turns out she was the brown-haired girl next to Flash), and that it inspired her to become a superhero.

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colonel_green
2009-08-06 07:17 pm UTC (link)

As posted elsewhere, the publishing wing isn't doing that badly, based on their Q2 numbers.

"You know, even in this down economy, we're still making a fucking MINT on video games and movies and action figures of all these characters, and yet, the same Iron Man character who made multiple millions for us at the box office is barely even cracking the 50K mark in monthly sales."

Unless somebody presents them with a surefire plan to completely change the existing market paradigms and says Quesada is in the way of that, there'd be little reason to get rid of someone who presided over a steady increase in sales until the onset of the recession and has kept things going fairly well since.

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box_in_the_box
2009-08-06 07:29 pm UTC (link)

Unless somebody presents them with a surefire plan to completely change the existing market paradigms and says Quesada is in the way of that, there'd be little reason to get rid of someone who presided over a steady increase in sales until the onset of the recession and has kept things going fairly well since.

Even as much as I hate Quesada, I will freely admit that this would be a very logical, sensible standpoint for them to take.

But guess what? You could have said the exact same thing about Bob Harras, and once again, he still got fired, which was the point that you seemed to have missed in my previous post, with my comparison to Bush versus Obama.

Given how much I personally blame Bush for our current economy, and how long I think it will take for us to recover fully from Bush's damage, I think it would be illogical to vote Obama out of office in 2012, even if the economy isn't fully recovered by then, but by the same token, if the economy isn't on the mend by 2012, I'm enough of a realist to worry that Obama WILL be voted out as a result.

Do you get what I'm saying here? Even if I WANTED Quesada to stay, I'd be worried that he'd be on his way out, for all the reasons that I've outlined here. By ignoring them, you're literally ignoring history - you know, like Marvel is doing right now, by reintroducing hologram and foil covers, and wanting to "do the '90s right" (which Quesada apparently did NOT support, for which I will give him credit).

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