jaredbright

I remember the first couple seasons of MAD TV. My favorites stuff was Artie Lange as My White Mama and the other crazy stuff they did like X-Newz which was just a big send up of Generation X and their supposed apathetic attitude.

I never read much Mad Magazine. I read it a few years ago and it had a page done by J. Scott Campbell. Wonder how that Spider-man project is coming along.

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I know Marvel (editorial) abandoned doing anything new when they killed Spider-man, but he magically came back to life. Twice, I think. But would it have been so hard to give Slott or one of those other BND writers a big idea like everyone in the world finding out Spider-man was and doing it as an actual story with a good plot that doesn't involved just Aunt May getting sick. Could they have just leave that for writers today.

Costume changes? Really?

Doc Ock looks awful, too, btw.

Doc Ock keeps getting slammed on. Just make him the villian he should be, not robo-Doc.

I'd say everything from Sins Past, The bizare Other story, Civil War/unmasking, OMD and perhaps even going back to the premise of a magical Spider-man itself was the worst comic book stuff I'll ever read. It's just awful and insulting. They had no plan for this and if they did, it makes it seem worse.

There's absolutely nothing to do in Spider-man now. I've read it a few times since and I don't even know who this guy is. He doesn't have the same soul anymore as the guy from the 90s or 80s or before that. I read Avenging because I wanted to see Joe Mad do something and fun as it was I found Spider-man mostly blank as a character. OMD ruined the credibility of the book, character, and perhaps the industry itself. When you get a story on CNN and potential new readers go to read this story about everyone knowing who Spider-man is, and people try to read this trash that leads up to OMD. How could they have made it any worse?

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Yeah, that was pretty bad. I remember reading the first issue and not buying into the premise or the characters. Then the second issue came around and I knew they didn't actually care about doing a story about everyone finding out who Spider-man really was. Think of all the issues they could of sold if they had put effort into it, done it right, and it was about traditional Spider-man who wasn't magic or whatever he was supposed to be. All of a sudden Cap's fighting the government and Iron man is this big bad new guy. People are just wandering around switching sides occasingly and fighting and I found it strange they were surprised when somebody died. You're fighting a 'war'. people die in a war. I actually reread the six (out of seven) issues I have thinking it wasn't as bad as I thought. It was actually worse. The people at Marvel who concieved this mess seemed totally incompable of producing this series. Really sad.

'No More Mutants' was the laziest writing I'd ever seen. It makes no sense and was done to make way for Civil War. People were still asking 'what happened to all the mutants' and the answer was 'they aren't mutants anymore, they are regular people' Then the next question was 'No, what happened? Was there a plaque?"

There's no explanation with No More Mutants or House of M. It's just 'It's magic'.

I don't why they just couldn't love the fact that the X-Men books were still on top (if I'm not mistaken). If anyone hated mutants that much, it was the editorial people at Marvel when they did that stuff.

Compare to Fall of the Mutants which was one of the early big Marvel crossovers. X-Factor gets a spaceship after fighting Apocalypse who has made Angel one of his Four Horsemen. The New Mutants fight the Animator and lose Doug Ramsey in a classic comic book death. The X-Men (with Cyclops wife) sacrifice themselves to fight the Adversary in Dallas before its magically undone by Nova Roma and they are essentially invisble to the world and believed dead for a while.

Now, that's magic I can deal with. It's n ot company wide and actually is relevant to the plot and not a cheat of years of continuity.

Just making a comparison.

I remember Moon Knight being cancelled is in the 90s, because they got that Stephen Platt to draw it and for some reason he got this hyped-up vibe to work because they say it was 'like Todd McFarlane's' and he signed his name 'SPLATT'. Then the book ended he went to work for Liefeld on the Prophet series.

Wasn't there one not two years ago that was drawn by David Finch?

"Can we have our mutants back now?" That's why that 'No More Mutants' thing was done. Because of the New Avengers book and their Civil War thing.

Man, I hope they give this thing a beginning and a reason why they are fighting, that would make all the difference. That and the J. Scott Campbell variant cover!

Don't hate me. This is great. I liked it better when comics WEREN'T mainstream. They talk, we get free advertising. It's all good.

Romita JRs art has lost a lot of its spark in recent years. I looked at his Spider-man stuff (circa the Ben Reilly stuff) and it looks great. Then I read his more recent stuff and he relies on the colorist too much. It's kind of sad.