dandelion

January 29, 2013 5:28 am And see, this is why I'm not really getting into reading comics, even though I'm a huge Spider-Man fan. Honestly, it's BECAUSE I'm a fan. You're exactly right: Marvel has this weird idea that killing off Peter brings sales up and sure, maybe that's true. He's the only superhero I like so obviously I'm unhappy when he dies, but I understand. Well, not really, but I won't go crazy over it. My real problem is how they never seem to do it with any sort of honor or respect. I mean, every time 616 Peter's been killed off it's been kept secret and nobody/only a select group of people knew. It's always shrouded in secrecy. If they're going to kill him, then couldn't Marvel once, just ONCE, give him a huge public funeral and make people like Jameson mourn the guy? Why does he never get the BENEFITS that comicverse death brings other people, like it did for Johnny Storm? He got those statues, remember, 'in gratitude'. If they would just do something like that, if they'd end Peter's run with the city acknowledging its loss, then I'd be more ok with killing him off. There's just one thing. Spider-Man isn't a legacy hero. He isn't like Batman, who's any man behind the mask, and he isn't Superman or Captain America to represent an ideal. Spider-Man is a PERSON. He's Peter Parker. And yeah, I'm opposed to anyone other than Peter taking up the mantle, because in my opinion it ISN'T some mantle you can pick up. I have nothing against Miles Morales as a character, and if he'd started out as a completely different hero I might have even read his books. But why'd they have to make him the 'new' Spider-Man? Why does 616 Spidey have to be filled in by Doc Ock? When the Human Torch died, the city knew he was dead. The city got to mourn him. And nobody started prancing around as Torch 2.0 because he's a unique person, and his superhero identity was HIM, not a mask to be passed down. Spider-Man's like that. His powers aren't great at all, and he only has the webbing because he happened to be a nerd. It's Peter with his responsibility and bravery who makes up Spider-Man. He's nothing more than Peter Parker with a mask over his face; no other person can be Spider-Man, just some guy with similar powers. I wish if Marvel insists on killing him off that they'd show some respect for the person who's led their company for fifty years.