https://www.cbr.com/ben-reilly-spider-m ... ker-death/
Oh good gravy, Ben Reilly is a solid character who I'm glad was resurrected, but recycling a quarter-century-old idea that *lots* of people hated the first time is beyond dumb.
I like Reilly, hate the Clone Saga. I stopped reading spandex comics because of the writing at the time.
This was one of several nails in the coffin for me for nearly a decade.
Onslaught was the other one for me. Re-reading it now, it's not actually that bad, but that's all retrospect.
Learning that things can get stupider?
edit: Sensible speculation calculated that eight months/24 issues would take the book to issue 900 and fifty years from Amazing Fantasy #15. So, yeah, they'll do eight months of Reilly and then the triumphant return of Peter Parker. Yawn.
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
https://www.cbr.com/ben-reilly-spider-m ... ker-death/
Oh good gravy, Ben Reilly is a solid character who I'm glad was resurrected, but recycling a quarter-century-old idea that *lots* of people hated the first time is beyond dumb.
I like Reilly, hate the Clone Saga. I stopped reading spandex comics because of the writing at the time.
This was one of several nails in the coffin for me for nearly a decade.
Onslaught was the other one for me. Re-reading it now, it's not actually that bad, but that's all retrospect.
Learning that things can get stupider?
edit: Sensible speculation calculated that eight months/24 issues would take the book to issue 900 and fifty years from Amazing Fantasy #15. So, yeah, they'll do eight months of Reilly and then the triumphant return of Peter Parker. Yawn.
I get it—their motivation has always been new readers, not placating us old fools.
X-Men, on the other hand, is cool as hell right now.
I like Reilly, hate the Clone Saga. I stopped reading spandex comics because of the writing at the time.
This was one of several nails in the coffin for me for nearly a decade.
Onslaught was the other one for me. Re-reading it now, it's not actually that bad, but that's all retrospect.
Learning that things can get stupider?
edit: Sensible speculation calculated that eight months/24 issues would take the book to issue 900 and fifty years from Amazing Fantasy #15. So, yeah, they'll do eight months of Reilly and then the triumphant return of Peter Parker. Yawn.
I get it—their motivation has always been new readers, not placating us old fools.
X-Men, on the other hand, is cool as hell right now.
Which X-Man is coming back from the dead?
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
This was one of several nails in the coffin for me for nearly a decade.
Onslaught was the other one for me. Re-reading it now, it's not actually that bad, but that's all retrospect.
Learning that things can get stupider?
edit: Sensible speculation calculated that eight months/24 issues would take the book to issue 900 and fifty years from Amazing Fantasy #15. So, yeah, they'll do eight months of Reilly and then the triumphant return of Peter Parker. Yawn.
I get it—their motivation has always been new readers, not placating us old fools.
X-Men, on the other hand, is cool as hell right now.
Onslaught was the other one for me. Re-reading it now, it's not actually that bad, but that's all retrospect.
Learning that things can get stupider?
edit: Sensible speculation calculated that eight months/24 issues would take the book to issue 900 and fifty years from Amazing Fantasy #15. So, yeah, they'll do eight months of Reilly and then the triumphant return of Peter Parker. Yawn.
I get it—their motivation has always been new readers, not placating us old fools.
X-Men, on the other hand, is cool as hell right now.
Which X-Man is coming back from the dead?
ALL OF THEM
Even Phoenix?!?!? /sarc
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
edit: Sensible speculation calculated that eight months/24 issues would take the book to issue 900 and fifty years from Amazing Fantasy #15. So, yeah, they'll do eight months of Reilly and then the triumphant return of Peter Parker. Yawn.
I get it—their motivation has always been new readers, not placating us old fools.
X-Men, on the other hand, is cool as hell right now.
Which X-Man is coming back from the dead?
ALL OF THEM
Even Phoenix?!?!? /sarc
The Phoenix Force is fucking with the Avengers right now, and leaving the X-Men out of it for once, thankfully.
I get it—their motivation has always been new readers, not placating us old fools.
X-Men, on the other hand, is cool as hell right now.
Which X-Man is coming back from the dead?
ALL OF THEM
Even Phoenix?!?!? /sarc
The Phoenix Force is fucking with the Avengers right now, and leaving the X-Men out of it for once, thankfully.
Changing everything forever?!?
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
Onslaught was the other one for me. Re-reading it now, it's not actually that bad, but that's all retrospect.
Learning that things can get stupider?
edit: Sensible speculation calculated that eight months/24 issues would take the book to issue 900 and fifty years from Amazing Fantasy #15. So, yeah, they'll do eight months of Reilly and then the triumphant return of Peter Parker. Yawn.
I get it—their motivation has always been new readers, not placating us old fools.
X-Men, on the other hand, is cool as hell right now.
Which X-Man is coming back from the dead?
ALL OF THEM
EXCEPT DESTINY
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
edit: Sensible speculation calculated that eight months/24 issues would take the book to issue 900 and fifty years from Amazing Fantasy #15. So, yeah, they'll do eight months of Reilly and then the triumphant return of Peter Parker. Yawn.
I get it—their motivation has always been new readers, not placating us old fools.
X-Men, on the other hand, is cool as hell right now.
Which X-Man is coming back from the dead?
ALL OF THEM
EXCEPT DESTINY
A small price to pay for everyone else finally getting on Magneto's page for once, I say.
A small price to pay for everyone else finally getting on Magneto's page for once, I say.
I hope Mystique burns it all down.
I like the new status quo too much. The last thing we need is them going back to that goddamn school.
Professor Xavier's Post-Doctoral Studies for Mutants.
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
I love the idea that Hi started smoking a pipe as a kid while doing chores. Middle-aged even in childhood.
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft