With the amount of call and response going on between the readers instead of between you and the readers, its almost time to set up a Brevoort Forums (see Bendis, he has an unused one he could lend you :P)
And on that note - if you’re the ‘Doc Ock rape’ guy, get over yourself. Nobody in that story is real, so it doesn’t actually matter whether Doc ‘raped’ Anna or Doc ‘raped’ Spidey or Anna ‘raped’ Pete or whatever. Have your own interpretation of these fictitious events, and allow others to interpret it their way. Its not HISTORY, Its A STORY.
If you’re the ‘Slott and Quesada killed Spidey’ guy, get over yourself. If reading Spider-Man comics no longer pleases you, move on with your life and find a new pastime. None of us are entitled to assume we can just keep on enjoying stuff. There’s no ‘real’, unalterably true version of anything published by Marvel. Again, its not HISTORY, its A STORY.
If you’re the ‘Magneto sex’ guy, get over yourself. Seriously, bigot much? Why would it offend you that people of different ages, different cultures or different genetics mated? Even in the real world, that sort of attitude is kind of Auschwitzy, and guess what - yet again, this not HISTORY, its A STORY.
Learn to distinguish, people. Its good to be interested. Its good to be a fan. Its unhealthy to be so worked up over something that you make such extreme statements, as if these were actually things that matter in the world. Take a breath, go out and meet some real rape victims or bereft people or bigotry sufferers, and stop devaluing concepts that mean something for your petty selfish convenience.
Cheers
DarrynNone of this matters in the real world? Absolutely right so let’s not emotionally invest in any of this stuff. At all. Don’t cheer if the Avengers win at the end of Age of Ultron- nobody really won anything. In fact, don’t even go see it. The whole “it doesn’t matter unless it’s the real world” argument really makes ANY diversion pointless.
That’s kind of a pointless attitude isn’t it?
I don’t necessarily agree with much said here, but people are certainly within their rights to invest and vent if they want. If people didn’t get mad about Spidey/Ock, the sales would’ve been flat. Instead sales were very good, right? Because people cared. Did they care too much? Perhaps. The other side is if they don’t care enough then they lose interest and the story doesn’t mean much and why keep spending money on something if you don’t care?
What’s the perfect ratio of caring? I dunno. Sure the angry letters are a bit much, but Tom’s a big boy and he prints the letters and anybody in a creative venue will tell you this sort of thing happens. There is also a responsibility of creators to tell stories and events in their publications with a measure of understanding of how these things can affect the audience. Glen Mazzara the showrunner for Walking Dead did a great interview on how a sexual assault that took place in the comic might not work on the TV show and it shows an understanding of events in your storytelling can give the audience emotional impact, so yeah, the audience has a responsibility to react a certain way but so too, have creators a responsibility to think through how these events are portrayed in their medium and how certain events will play to their audience. I’m still mad that a beloved supporting character like Sue Dibny got raped and killed so brutally. Is it okay that bothers me and makes me mad because I found her charming and her relationship with her husband to be one of the most fun in comics? Because if I didn’t find her charming twenty five years ago then I should’ve stopped buying the books a long time ago. What was the point, really?