Remembering Peter Parker: The Importance of the Amazing Spider-Man

[HXHAlex]

The House of No More Ideas, m I rite fellas?!

[DamnYellow]

Who is, or you think ought to be, embarrassed about what's being done?

marvel. He said it right in his post.

[ZeoVGM]

Completely agree. Although it really shows that Marvel is running out of ideas. Killing Peter not long after Ultimate Peter was killed? It's getting to be embarrassing.

I'm sure they feel incredibly embarrassed over the huge sales of the book and the sure-to-be-great sales of Superior.

And while death is not a new idea, the way this was done was pretty unique and interesting. Of course Peter will be back. The fun part is the story. Thankfully, it's Slott.

[LorrieK]

Nothing wrong with reminiscing about Peter Parker/Spider-Man. He is the best comic book character ever.

I don't buy that Peter is truly even temporarily dead. But even if he is, it's one of the most undo-able comic book deaths ever, what with his body being just fine. I don't mind deaths that are clearly meant to be temporary, but don't expect me not to roll my eyes and indulge in a little sarcasm when a company tries to sell that an A-lister's death will be permanent. I know they're looking for headlines, but it's still silly after so many deaths and resurrections.

It's still curious to me that they commemorated 50 years of the character by "killing" him off in such an odd fashion. But I know they have a death quota to meet (it's great for sales), and those poor kids in the murder book probably aren't worth a lot of points.

[RyanParkerMan]

I thought the article was really cool.

[blopblopblop]

Looking over those pics, I'd forgotten how much I hated those giant MacFarlane eyes on Spidey in the 90s.

[refrax5]

I'm not sure why people are angry about this storyline. This is different than "OMG! They killed Steve Rogers!" only to bring him back 1 year later, or the terrible Fear Itself death of Thor that didn't even last a month, or the death of the Human Torch, where they acknowledged pretty much the same day they had every intention of bringing them back. As opposed to what whitey72 resents, I LIKE that there won't be several months of fake grief and drama and guilt over the 'death' of Spider-Man. He's not dead. Peter Parker and all of his memories are very much alive. Like Doctuh says, this is merely a storyline. Now, we can judge the merits of the payoff of whether or not this ends up being an interesting storyline, but I really don't feel this falls into the cynical "This character DIED!" cycle of one death every six months Marvel has been doing. It's actually more like what Kieron Gillen did in Journey Into Mystery, and that, to me, was one of the most entertaining runs in recent memory. I'm a fairly recent follower of Slott on AMAZING - just the last 8 issues or so, but I kind of trust what he's doing. Let's sit back and enjoy a good story!

I agree with that. I like that in this superhero "death," it's not milking that element. It's kind of a weird way of doing it and I'm at least glad it's avoiding the usual cliches. I thought it worked well for Captain America because of what he represented and because the MU at the time was going through so much dark, morally ambiguous stuff, so it was interesting to lose their moral center and leader. But I feel like we've seen that type of thing in a few different hero deaths. I'm more interested in seeing what happens next than I am seeing a bunch of heroes have a love fest over dead Peter who of course isn't actually dead and we all know it.

[Meehaul]

OMG! They killed Superman!

OMG! They killed Batman!

OMG! They killed the Flash!

OMG! They killed the Human Torch!

OMG! They killed Captain America!

OMG! They killed Gwen! Ok, I'll give 'em that one.

[themortalfist]

Most of us, I think, pretty much believe that Peter Parker is coming back as the Amazing Spider-Man. What bothers me is that a lot of folks I respect -- Slott, Wacker in particular -- are trying very hard to convince us that this is permanent, that we'll get 700 more issues with a character named Otto Octavius (a no more slimey buggery evil name comes to mind) will carry on the mantle and bring new meaning to "With great power..."

But aside from the merchandise, the movies, the myths that all revolve around Peter Parker (with apologies to Miles Morales), just from a storytelling perspective, this is a big sellout, and sells out all those memories on Peter Parker. The importance of Peter Parker? ALWAYS doing the right thing. Want to be a hero, Otto? First order of business, you do the right thing. And what would that be? Admitting that YOU JUST KILLED SPIDER-MAN. So, yes, from a story-telling perspective, Slott is being manipulative. From a corporate perspective, Marvel is lying through its teeth. And with that, after lots of fun with Spidey, I bid goodbye to the book, the character and anything else Spidey-related.

[whiteshark]

Even being someone that think that eventually Peter Parker will return i still think this article was cool.
And the curent direction of the Spidey stories is a good way to show how strong was Spider-Man importance that even his arch enemy got to live up his legacy.
So i do like that the narrative of Spidey stories is showing so much potential even with Doc Ock being Spider-Man.

[DV1Band]

I know that this is a really tough pill to swallow, but you've got to come to terms, just like I did:
Peter Parker is gone.
He's dead... and he's not coming back. Ever. Period. The sooner all of you accept this, the better off you will be.
Scarlet Spider is still around for the foreseeable future, which is good news...

[DracoDracul]

If by never you mean within 18 months.