He "saved Marvel"? By ruining all the progress made to its flagship character? Remember, where Spider-Man goes, Marvel goes. Right now it seems to be straight to the toilet, comics-wise. Quesada's lucky Marvel came out a winner in the superhero movie business, with DC only having a homerun with the Batman films thus far.
This was not an objective interview. It was a pandering mess where the interviewer made his clear, unabashed bias towards all things Marvel quite obvious. I am one of the many DC fans who had started reading Marvel again, only to be chased away by the inane story of OMD and their horrendous treatment of the Spider-Man character. What a load.
Spider-man is a commercial property, and he'll never get out of this terrible Twilight Zone trap of much experience without ever learning anything. To learn is to change, and we can't have that in the MU. So, Marvel eventually loses it's aging fanbase because most of them live and learn and change and grow. All that OMD did was to return Spider-man to the Lee/Romita status quo.
@johnkalel: I agree. As a younger reader, I grew up reading married Peter Parker stories, so I'm naturally against trying to de-age him. I see him as a young married man. That's who Spider-Man is to me. Just because Quesada sees Parker as the boy he was when Quesada was growing up reading Spider-Man doesn't mean that that's who Spider-Man is.
Ha, put me in the band with "You Ruined Spidey." Sorry, re-imagining...wait, I mean UN-imagining Spider-man? Backwards? Using...the Devil?
Here is the scoop: I'm 30. I read comics. I am married. I am not a picked-on kid in high school. I'm ready for a Spider-man (& Superman) that aren't a mess, that are married, that have real lives.
I haven't read a Spider-man comic since OMD, & I have no immediate plans to do so; went from relevant to insulting in one fell swoop.
At least Luke & Jessica are married & happy. Or wait, wasn't their baby Skrulled in some way? Or was that just a red herring? I forget.
I'm still trying to figure out who to be angry at for the Marvel stock my mom bought in 1993 or so that turned out utterly worthless now that Marvel's on top of the world again.
sigh
Queseda seems like a very good front and businessman and person in charge. It may not add up to things that the readers always like or screams artistic merit, but... hard to argue with more fannies in the seats to then at least be EXPOSED to the good stuff. Queseda is probably making comics as a whole, ESPECIALLY the indie stuff, benefit ultimately. Spider-suck or no Spider-suck.
Excuse me? The worst thing about Spider-Man's direction was the marriage with MJ? What about the ridiculous Avengers/Civil War/identity exposed bullshit? And to make it the comic book equivalent of the Dallas shower scene?
idiotic.
That storyline took me out of Marvel Comics and I'm never coming back. Sure, Quesada did a lot of great things for Marvel, but he ruined Spider-Man.
And let's not forget about the insane homophobic comments the writer of Brave new World made, saying that if you disagree with the book's direction that means you're pro gay marriage. Wrap your head around that one.
@DocSeuss:Making it go away via magic devil magic isn't "getting rid of it." And Quesada not even mentioning it when talking about the problems that book has is very indictadive of his detachment from reality.
I agree with the other commenters, this interview was ass-kissing BS.
And on top of that, they ran a nice little tap dancing session by saying how it all happened, but everyone just so happens not to remember a damn thing and somehow none one remembers having footage of it.
Oh, and if they did get rid of it, nice of them to hype it so much and saying how it's permanent just to get rid of it a few months later. Oh, that makes it all better now.
07/24/09
This was not an objective interview. It was a pandering mess where the interviewer made his clear, unabashed bias towards all things Marvel quite obvious. I am one of the many DC fans who had started reading Marvel again, only to be chased away by the inane story of OMD and their horrendous treatment of the Spider-Man character. What a load.
07/24/09
07/24/09
07/24/09
Here is the scoop: I'm 30. I read comics. I am married. I am not a picked-on kid in high school. I'm ready for a Spider-man (& Superman) that aren't a mess, that are married, that have real lives.
I haven't read a Spider-man comic since OMD, & I have no immediate plans to do so; went from relevant to insulting in one fell swoop.
At least Luke & Jessica are married & happy. Or wait, wasn't their baby Skrulled in some way? Or was that just a red herring? I forget.
07/24/09
sigh
Queseda seems like a very good front and businessman and person in charge. It may not add up to things that the readers always like or screams artistic merit, but... hard to argue with more fannies in the seats to then at least be EXPOSED to the good stuff. Queseda is probably making comics as a whole, ESPECIALLY the indie stuff, benefit ultimately. Spider-suck or no Spider-suck.
07/24/09
idiotic.
That storyline took me out of Marvel Comics and I'm never coming back. Sure, Quesada did a lot of great things for Marvel, but he ruined Spider-Man.
And let's not forget about the insane homophobic comments the writer of Brave new World made, saying that if you disagree with the book's direction that means you're pro gay marriage. Wrap your head around that one.
07/25/09
"What about the ridiculous Avengers/Civil War/identity exposed bullshit?"
What about it? They got rid of that too.
07/25/09
I agree with the other commenters, this interview was ass-kissing BS.
07/26/09
And on top of that, they ran a nice little tap dancing session by saying how it all happened, but everyone just so happens not to remember a damn thing and somehow none one remembers having footage of it.
Oh, and if they did get rid of it, nice of them to hype it so much and saying how it's permanent just to get rid of it a few months later. Oh, that makes it all better now.