zoobatz

June 22, 2013 8:51 pm Will turn 44 this year. Married, two kids, 11 and 8. You had the answer i went with, quality over quantity. With limited time it needs to be worth it. I read all of the Mignolaverse, The Walking Dead, and a few others. Time moves quickly now, my kids will both be adults in 10 years. Plenty of time to ramp up the pull list then.

January 9, 2013 1:17 am I think it's just lazy writing. If you don't have a Peter Parker story to tell, you don't have a Spider-Man story to tell. it's interesting because Peter Parker is Spider-Man, not Otto. Monthly comic books are serials because we like to follow a character, remove the character we've been following and the serial nature dies away. I think the creators are forced to make a sales splash nowadays and that is why we end up with story lines like these. Upsetting that the companies seem unaware of the successes of comics with a single vision or story to tell. Look at Hawkeye or Daredevil, free reign for the creators to tell their stories and they are very successful. If we the consumer see this, and obviously we do, why can't they. Maybe I'm naive, maybe the sales from this gimmick justify it, but I hope not.