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July 24, 2010 12:31 pm Mark Ruffalo is a relatively big name to most movie fans. He'll never be on the Pitt/Clooney level, but he is right there when you talk about respected actors. He's far from a nobody they pulled in off the street. 

July 22, 2010 11:20 am I didn't think it was as bad as the rest of you seem to, but I think the reason reactions look like this is that there was a lot of pressure for this arc to be strong, and after one issue, they laid an egg.

July 21, 2010 4:09 pm Just read it, top of the stack. Color me disappointed. Oh well, maybe next issue will be better.

July 21, 2010 3:14 pm

@ctrosejr If you haven't enjoyed the majority of BND, sour grapes about how we got here aside, I don't really know what to tell you. It's been Spider-Man at his best. But to just undo all of it with "it was all a dream" or something would be just as much of a slap in the face to fans as OMD was, and it would be even more damaging, since it would further a precedent into a standard. 

I don't like that OMD happened, but it did, and now I'd just like for it to make sense in the context of these characters. Because, frankly, what Mary Jane has been in BND is one of the few low points, character wise. I get that the team might not want to feature her too much, since ti would be rubbing salt in wounds, literary and message board, but when she's shown up, she hasn't felt like the strong, mature character from the JMS run. She's had her moments, of course, but it's mostly felt like she's a prop, which wasn't really the case before all this started. 

I still haven't gotten to the store to read this, but I just wanted to chime in and say that as someone with what I think are reasonable issues about OMD, seeing it wiped clean is about the last thing I would want. 

July 21, 2010 9:30 am

@KickAss OMD was well written only in the sense that if you accept everything as told, the voices and moments ring true. I just thought that the decisions - a deal with the devil! - were against the Peter Parker we've known for years. As I said, it took us to a great place with great stories, but it was a storytelling decision that undercut the stories that came before it in a pretty serious way. 

The saving grace, though, is the commentary that came in the OMD hardcover. The point was made that during BND, Peter would seem a bit off, a bit despondent. This was to never be addressed explicitly, but it was noted that the writers should write it as subtext for having just list his wife, his life. 

Anyway, I'll reserve judgement, but this is definitely the book I'm most looking forward to this week (aside from the already-released Scott Pilgrim). 

July 19, 2010 5:36 pm

I'm one of the ones who thought that OMD was a horrible from a place of storytelling and character, but it gave us the past few years of BND, which have been amazing. I liked JMS's Peter Parker, MJ and May, but I kind of hated his Spider-Man. I've absolutely loved almost everything about the relaunched series. 

 I think that Quesada will do a good job here, since he knows how rabid the fanbase has been about this issue. I also think he took it on himself because he feels like he dug this hole, and he didn't want to put the head on any of the wonderful writers that are currently on the book. I'm looking forward to it, and I'm expecting to enjoy it.  

July 19, 2010 5:13 pm Double Double Double Double Rainbow.

July 12, 2010 8:04 pm More or less the only Batbooks I've ever read are Batman and Robin, which these two turned up in a while ago. So is it bad that I read that whole arc and never once realized that Squire is a girl? I'm kind of embarrassed. 

May 12, 2010 3:38 pm It was missing about 5-6 pages where the Avengers actually get their butts kicked. We only saw that for a few panels. But I still really enjoyed this. I was positively giddy for the last third of it.

May 3, 2010 12:15 pm Yeah, this probably wasn't the time for another death. But I'm willing to give it some time and see how it reverberates.