CBR: Sins of the Father Figures: Guggenheim on Amazing Spider-Man

[CBR News]

With the landmark "Character Assassination" arc now concluded, CBR talks with writer Marc Guggenheim about the story's revelations and what it was like scripting a "tent pole" Spider-Man story.


Full article here.

[Cody H]

Wait-- so the Ghostbusters work at Coney Island now?

[ThomHunt]

The landmark "Character Assassination" arc? Landmark? Really? Landmark. There haven't been any landmarks associated with Spider-Man other than the one left from the crash-landing that was "One More Day."

Landmark. Sheesh. Who writes the Headline copy for CBR?

[Jim Thompson]

With the landmark "Character Assassination" arc now concluded, CBR talks with writer Marc Guggenheim about the story's revelations and what it was like scripting a "tent pole" Spider-Man story.


Full article here.

This is considered a landmark story? Really? I guess folks have a vastly different idea of what that entails than I do.

[Hertz]

The landmark "Character Assassination" arc? Landmark? Really? Landmark. There haven't been any landmarks associated with Spider-Man other than the one left from the crash-landing that was "One More Day."

Landmark. Sheesh. Who writes the Headline copy for CBR?

This is considered a landmark story? Really? I guess folks have a vastly different idea of what that entails than I do.

I don't know why but, these two posts in succession just really made me laugh.

Thanks guys.

[Mr. East]

I concur with the other two posts from above. This wasn't a landmark arc. Rather, it was just an arc which progressed the story line and finally gave solutions to some unanswered questions as opposed to other recent issues where the stories are just meant to catch up with older villains to see what they've been doing in this post-OMD world.

[Jim Thompson]

Yeah, I thought it was a fairly solid arc -- but nothing major, and certainly nothing I'd call "landmark."

Is there anyone out there who thought it was?

[Hertz]

Whiteshark, Leocomix and MisterMets maybe?

[Jim Thompson]

Whiteshark, Leocomix and MisterMets maybe?

Whiteshark might -- I don't know if either Mets or Leo would describe it like that -- and they liked the arc, too.

[Hertz]

Whiteshark might -- I don't know if either Mets or Leo would describe it like that -- and they liked the arc, too.

Maybe, maybe not, though they did seem to like the arc (and the book in general) more than most of late. But, I could just be misinterpreting things.

[ThomHunt]

As for the thread topic itself, in my opinion, this was your classic, average Spidey story. It had all the elements of the classic Spidey stories of the 60's, 70's and 80's. i don't hate on OMD; For story sake, it was a wekcop-out, but hey, what's done is done. Marvel seems to think the classic-style storytelling of Spider-days gone by is "the" formula for a successful Spider-man. Time will tell. As forme, ino longer read or buy every single issue of "Amazing Spider-Man." I might pick up an issue here or there that piques my interests, but for the most part in my opinion the stories have all been done before, nothing new to see here. Yes, "Charcter Assassination" resolved some plot threads. Did anything thaI would consider to be a"landmark" happen? Definitely not. Meh.

[BlackToe]

If I had to say it was landmark, I would say only for the new development of the Osborn family.

Other than that it was mostly just a solid read.

[Jim Thompson]

If I had to say it was landmark, I would say only for the new development of the Osborn family.

Other than that it was mostly just a solid read.

I just think it was a solid read -- not bad, not spectacular.

[ThomHunt]

I just think it was a solid read -- not bad, not spectacular.

My point exactly! Your average, classic Spider-Man tale.

[Regulus B.]

Yeah, I thought it was a fairly solid arc -- but nothing major, and certainly nothing I'd call "landmark."

Is there anyone out there who thought it was?

I'm not sure I would call it landmark on the surface of it but I think the reason they're calling it landmark is because of how its effects on Peter might ripple outward. In Extra #3 Peter starts seeing his guilt from a different perspective and I remember that getting mentioned in the Mark Guggenheim Weekly Webbing as a "sea change." So if Peter's motivations gradually change in a lasting way from the specific events of that arc then yes, I'd call it landmark. But it's too soon to say if that's true.