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February 1, 2013 6:31 am I stopped reading Spider-Man after the, what I considered to be the biggest cop out in comics, deal with Mephisto to save Aunt May's life. Here was a chance to move Peter's life forward, to show new depths to the character and the characters he interacted with. May should have died - it was the obvious outcome, and the stories, the build up had me hooked. And then? Marvel blew it. Couldn't upset the franchise, couldn't do what was best for the character, no, far better to leave him in Charlie Brown land, forever in arrested development limbo. I perused a couple of the "new day" comics and gave up; I'd already been there. I no longer cared. There's a difference between rebooting characters to bring them into a new decade and to a new audience and to cynically building them up only to dump them back at square one - it's laziness, it's corporate fear, at worst it's contempt, both for the character and the audience. So Peter Parker is dead? And Doc Octopus is the new Spider-Man? Have sales of #700 gone through the roof? Is Jim Shooter back at Marvel? Meanwhile the "dead" Prof X's brain is now somehow residing within the Red Skull (not the first time the Skull has switched bodies/minds either). Seems a little too similar in concept to me. And that's another cancellation coming up! Death in comics always seems too casual; it's always a means to some other end when in fact it should be about giving characters lives emotional resonance.

April 30, 2011 9:26 pm Have just read this and must say I thoroughly enjoyed it! Coipel's art is worth the price of admission and the story promises to become an interesting one. Some overdue character commentary on the nature of gods and the relevance of religious belief in the face of mythology come to life.
 I'm not keen on multiple titles for the same character and Thor seems to have been infected by the virus - probably because of the movie. Still, I think I will be addingt his one to my list, at least until the first arc completes.  And now... off to the movie!

April 30, 2011 8:49 pm It'll be a sad day when Scalped comes to an end. There really is nothing else like it in the (American) comics industry. It's head and shoulders above other Vertigo titles, which is saying something. I notice Skydog compared it to the Sopranos, which is kind of close. Maybe more like a Coen Brothers movie - like No Country for Old Men? I think it would translate well into film or mini-TV-series if the right people got behind it.