Posted on 01/10/2008 12:33:03 PM PST by pgyanke
But the retrocontinuity of Marvel now has it that Captain America was NOT the first to drink the “super soldier” formula. It was put forth in a recent series that he was the first “white guy” to get the perfected formula after it’d been tested in poor black men.
As the Clearasil turns.
Its time to let a new generation of kids grow up with Peter Parker.
Whats next, geriatric Spiderman? Course not...take him back to who he is.
yo
Here's something written by his collaborator, Larry Niven.
Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex
Cheers!
You know, at first read I thought, "It's just a comic book," but after I read what you said, it made me think again. & it seems like most characters in the media are portrayed as single, aren't they?
It worked for the Dark Knight. 
Peter and MJ have been married 21 years! Wow, time flies. I haven’t followed Spider Man comics for some time, but I would think that it would be relatively easy for a decent writer to come up with fresh ideas for the character and his wife.
a darkie ‘eh?
Is there something wrong with a next-generation Spiderman? We were treated to Peter coming of age and marrying... can’t they keep their marriage and the storyline? Seems to me they could... with a more talented and open-minded script.
How juvenile is it to revert your character to high school geekiness in order to “keep him fresh”. It demonstrates an immature worldview. If your character is getting too mundane, pass the torch. Can his spider powers pass to his kids? Can he, the great scientist that he is, duplicate the process that gave him his powers? Enhance them maybe? Screw it up and create something unpredictable? Lots of possibilities.
seems kinda juvenile to need to hang onto him when its time to let him go
parallel titles running Spidey at diff points in his age might work...I guess 
Maybe it was while back, but didn’t Marvel reprint the first issues? The kids can have those.
The kids need to let Spidey go. Let him age, have his hair fall out, get a belly, and make appointments to get his prostate examined. : )
by wolverine
or Mr. Fantastic.
he sure was
“I always knew Spidey was a homo.”
I played in a poker tournament with him at the Bellagio, 2-3 years ago in Vegas. He is.
The editors at both DC and Marvel really suck. There’s a damn good reason comics are dying, and the people running the comic book business are part of the problem.
Joe Quesada, Marvel’s editor in chief, also killed off Captain America. Soon there will be an Illegal Alien superhero.
Of course, these are all just comic books.
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