Amazing Spider-Man Ends With Issue #700

[Baron von Blitztank]

I doubt this is gonna last. Worst case scenario is that Doctor Octopus will have the mantle for a year at most but then Peter Parker is gonna be back in the costume and trading Yo Mamma slurs with Deadpool as he used to.

What is this whole Marvel NOW! thing anyway? The title sounds really stupid.

 

[Mister Six]

As much as I hate this whole new 'twist', I will give Marvel respect if they stick to it and keep Peter dead.

 

[-Dragmire-]

One day a long time ago, I decided to get into comics. Having loved the 90s Spiderman cartoon, I figured that would be a natural place to start. Looking through the comic store, I came across a particular Spiderman episode #0. Perfect, I thought as I ran and paid for the issue and took it home....

Then I read it...

Peter Parker was a hobo who couldn't pay for a cup of coffee, a clone took his spot and married Mary Jane and he himself was almost killed by the clone.

That day my young self said, "Fuck comics!" and I never looked back.

This day, I am reminded of my complete lack of regret over that decision.

 

[Baron_BJ]

I hadn't had the chance to read the book yet, but I knew Peter wasn't going to be starring anymore after 700. Decided I'd check this article anyway. Oh my god.

I've been actively reading Spider-Man for 12 years (I'm 19 now). I am exactly what Marvel as a company wanted and needed; the fan who would pick up any Spider-Man book they sold purely because it was Spider-Man, no matter how fucking terrible they were (and oh god, have there been loooong stretches of fail). I read OMD and I didn't like it, but never did the thought cross my mind that I'd stop buying the book.

That is to say I was. Never have I seen something so unbelievably stupid, idiotic or fucking terrible.

Marvel expects me to be fine with them not just killing my favorite character (I don't mind a character's death, you just make it something glorious, Ultimate Spider-Man as a series, whether you cared for it or not [I adored it], had a death that was fitting and fucking amazing), but replacing him with one of the greatest monsters to have ever lived. Not 13 issues ago (in a story that was directly tied to this one) did Doctor Octopus act out a plan wherein he had planned to MURDER EVERYONE ON THE PLANET (barring 0.08% of the world's population, having him live on in infamy, never to be forgotten by the very few who would be left behind [he says he'd eclipse even Hitler, direct name drop]). What the fuck. In this day and age that'd be like Marvel yelling out "Hey everyone, Captain America had been murdered and had his soul replaced with Osama Bin Laden's! You should read about Osama's new adventures!", hell, Godwin's law has already been shat on so let's go with what they're actually doing "Spider-Man has been replaced by someone who has tried (and claimed) to be WORSE THAN HITLER, so you should all buy our new book; SPIDER-HITLER!".

Marvel. You've actually managed to make the one Spider-Man book that I will not buy. Congratulations. This is a task that would eclipse even convincing the world's Sonic Fans that the games are shit now.

I'm aware that this is something that will never last, but it's one of those things where it makes it so I'm not sure I'll ever start reading it again, even afterwards.

This is what's going to happen:

Doc Spider will go through a sort of 'puberty'.
-5 issues

It will be revealed that Peter Spider is actually still INSIDE HIS OWN MIND. Think 'Stargate Gu'old' type of deal and they'll fight it out, with Doc Spider, having lived with a conscience for the first time in his life, allowing Peter to take control.
-7 issues

Edited yours a bit with ye olde copy/paste. Slott spoke of the first year of books. This is how I see that entire "first year" going down.

EDIT: Just ran out to buy the book. First off I'm not believing the total heel-turn that was there at the end. Second, it's clear that they don't expect this shit to last, like, at all; they've blatantly left shit open at the end so that they can easily change back when this fails.

 

[Space commando 75]

Haven't read marvel comics in ?? well a long time but why would't Parker's try and get help from the fantastic four or the avengers if he found himself in a situation like this?

 

[xedobubble]

Yup, Peter Parker is dead. Just like Captain America, Bruce Wayne, and Johnny Storm are all dead.

I give it a year before he's alive again and the status quo is restored. At the longest, Peter will be back in action when the next spider-man movie comes out for tie-in purposes.

 

[GloatingSwine]

I'd say this is the dumbest Spider-Man plot ever, but, well, it's really not even close to the depths of dumb they've hit with him before...

 

[Baron_BJ]

I Haven't read Marvel comics in a long time but why wouldn't Parker try and get help from the fantastic four or the avengers if he found himself in a situation like this?

The story going is that Doc Ock has stolen his body and they both have all of each others memories (which lead to an admittedly funny scene where Peter was plumbing the doctor's memories and found one where the doc is literally fucking his Aunt). If he did try to go to them they'd both be making an identical case.

There's also a ticking clock variable where the doctor's body is about to fail entirely (organs actively failing, his useless body being on life-support), leaving Peter MAYBE a couple of hours, so he's instead fallen onto a lot of ock's plans to break him out and the like (calling upon a plan to make the Sinister Six again with some other villains breaking him out).

I rolled my eyes reading the first parts of it, but even then you'd think he'd still be able to bring the situation to them and get a telepath to read both their minds (this being comics there are of course a shitload of readily available telepaths).

EDIT: Read the book, in it Ock (in Peter's body), secretly activated a bunch of his old robots and had them attack around the world to draw away all the people who would have sorted this crap out.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Yeah, this is why I don't read comic books. So Doc Ock took over his body and... what?

 

[aba1]

I... what?

This is why I can't get into superhero comics. I just can't. The story sounds ridiculous, like a soap opera that's taken some bad acid, and the marketing is just... I mean, nothing's ending here, is it. It's not like Marvel are stopping production on Spider-Man comics. All that they're doing is swapping one of the words out of the title, and replacing it with another. The story's the same, the characters are all the same, it's just a different word in the title.

I would actually love it if one of the major comic publishers actually had the balls to end one of their franchises. Just to show that they have some creativity, and they're not completely craven to the need to keep trying to please fanboys. I doubt that'll happen though. Marvel and DC have ruthlessly kept comics as the medium for superheroes, and as long as people still give them money, they'll continue to do so.

Bah... I'm gonna go read Maus again. At least there are some comics that don't feel the need to stick in costumed superheroes.

I hear ya I actually do read some comics but I can't help but face palm constantly. They are always wondering why they can't keep numbers up but then go and stop a series change the name and continue the story. You know how confusing as fuck that is to follow if your getting into comics. Not only will they be putting out number 1's that are not that start of the story but they are expecting their fans already to know they the title and numbering are changing and it isn't actually ending.

 

[BreakfastMan]

You know, sometimes when something awesome happens in mainstream comics, I wonder why I stopped reading them. Then I see this shit going on, and I am reminded why I escaped to creator-owned/niche comics in the first place.

 

[Trishbot]

Who seriously thinks this is going to stick? If you believe Peter Parker's going to stay dead long than a year, I have a bridge to sell you too.

Now, NOVA being replaced by some hipster Skrillex-listening teen who needs his mom's permission to fight crime? That's a change I fear might stick...

 

[Waaghpowa]

Me and a friend have been speculating for a while now that Peter Parker will return because the Doctor "Rewrote brain patterns" rather than swapping minds, and as such Peter Parker will eventually resurface.

 

[anthony87]

So wait....Doc Ock will take over his body and....become him? What?

 

[LordLundar]

Why do I read this as Slott essentially saying "We're going to make Spider-man darker, more edgy, make him morally ambiguous." Then promptly see the comic flatly falling on it's face.

 

[Froggy Slayer]

This reminds me of the Spider-Man film script that was kicking around in the 90's for a bit. You know the one.

 

[Zhukov]

The story sounds ridiculous, like a soap opera that's taken some bad acid...

That line cracked me up.

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OT: Yeah, I can practically smell the outraged fans from here. Lookin' forward to a Big Picture episode on this.