Spider-Man Brand New Day

I tend to read a lot of comics, my weekly order from Midtown Comics is pretty expensive. But I like them, they offer an escape. And as long as there are good stories and art, I am happy.

But the publishers have to muck with their characters in order to shock the readers and start purchase frenzies. Barry Allen gets killed off as the Flash, he returns later this year. Green Arrow is killed and then brought back to life. Hal Jordon goes bad as Green Lantern, sacrifices his life to save the universe, becomes the Spectre for a while and now is back as Green Lantern.

Then you have Steve Rogers (Captain America) getting killed, the discovery that his WWII partner Bucky Barnes is alive and well and working as a Soviet agent known as the Winter Soldier, and Bucky is Captain America. So far the story is pretty good and I like it.

Then we have Spider-Man. First they have him marry Mary Jane Watson, reveal his secret identity to Aunt May, reveal it to the world in the Civil War storyline, and then Marvel's version of the Devil, agrees to save the life of Aunt May, if Parker gives us his life with Mary Jane. Oh, and the world goes back to not knowing who Spider-Man is.

Now I never liked the character of Aunt May. The constant whining in the storyline that May is going to die if she finds out her nephew is Spider-Man. She is like a 1000 years old, she should be dead. They actually killed her off for a while, but it was a fake. Now Peter Parker puts his life in the crapper to keep Aunt May alive for another 1000 years.

So Brand new Day starts, Parker is lonely, broke and sad. Mary Jane is a famous Model and the Paris Hilton of her day. Parker lost his job with the Daily Bugle, J Jonah Jameson lost control of his paper to somebody who did a make over and how the semi-respected Bugle is the DB, Marvel's version of the NY Post. Come to thing of it, the Bugle was pretty much like the NY Post under JJJ's leadership.

Boring, just as boring as the daily comic strip that still is being done by Stan Lee. And May Parker who ended what could of being some interesting story lines? She works in a soup kitchen and worries about her nephew and we all worry about whether she will kick the bucket if she finds out Parker is Spider-Man. Of course from the before Brand New Day storyline, we know that she freaking will not die, but will actually deal with it.

Comic Publishers, if you want to do radical changes to your characters such as Superman marrying Lois Lane, then stick with it. Don't change something unless you mean it. And if you have a solid creative team handling the book, they can make it work, they can write interesting stories, they don't have to resort to the same boring crap that we hare getting now.

And I have to have the energy to rant about Batman RIP.