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Originally Posted by CLASSIFIED

I don't agree with your generalizations about modern audiences.

I think with the right author, the story could have been pulled off.

I think they did the reveal pre-release to generate buzz for the flagship book in their failing universe.

I also think "Who is Spiderman?" would have made a more compelling, sustainable, and sellable story than "Spiderman isn't Peter Parker!".

I agree on that, but the generalization of modern audiences isn't without its support. You can see it everywhere from transformers fans to comic fans who get pissy at the slightest drop of anything that means they have to wait.

I do think the public relations department completely fubared up the potential here, but thankfully sales so far are pretty strong, and the issue itself was quite amazing. The problem is though like I said, spider-man is the epitome of the humanized hero. So having him do superheroics without the human interest angle would defeat the purpose of his own title. Now if they did it as an ultimates type side story, or better in fallout instead of just having the reveal there and saved the reveal for the end of the first issue where miles just realized he had an ability at all. That could have really worked. That would have made more people question who is spider-man, and why are we reading about this kid when the prowler is in this same comic?

I do appreciate the fact they didn't go for a fractured flashback type story though and are going forward with it as 'real time'.

The thing is though you have to understand a writer's choices for a comic, and then how it's related to the media at large are two different things. That's the public relations department who are trying to find headlines and boost sales. The writer is just trying to write the best story they can. Two different jobs, but the writer gets the blame for it as it's his name being thrown out there even though it's the public relations people that are the ones feeding it to news organizations to get the headlines and the writer is just strung along for the ride. You also have to understand it's the news media that writes the headlines and puts the spin on the topic. Where the writer may want to just talk about this new idea that they think is amazing, it's the news media that spins it, asks the questions, and then prints it with how they think it'll sell. It's the public relations department that has to figure out the angle to get the news media interested. It's sensationalism essentially, but that's not the writer's fault. It's the other arms of the company that feed into that.