[uberlad]

Re: the comics, I don't mind when Spidey has bad soap opera subplots (that's one of my favorite parts of the book!), and I've enjoyed Superior Spidey, if only because it got Dan Slott away from writing Peter Parker. I like Slott's crazy ideas, but I have a different vision of what makes Spidey work--so having him write OckSpidey instead was fun. I wish some other writer would get a turn, soon.

The new movies--I want to like them, I don't even mind the ultimazation of bad guys, but that last movie was so bad. I disagree with Slott's Spidey, but I can respect that he is following his take on the character. The last movie had no idea what Spidey is supposed to be about.

There was no responsibility; there was blatantly lying to capt. Stacey and then sneaking into his daughter's bedroom. There was no shy but smart Peter Parker who comes out of his shell as he learns his power, there was a smartassy punk skater who was sleeping in class and breaking into oscorp. And finally, let's not forget all of the awesome comic stories about Spidey finding out about his parents. You remember, the one where....oh yeah. There aren't any. Let's make movies about that!

Meanwhile, thanks to Avengers blowing up huge, every company with a superhero license wants to do the same, and Sony, not Marvel, controls the characters I love the most and gives them to people who have no idea what they are doing. Yay. Now they can ruin venom, smythe, the sinister 6, rhino, etc, too.