Straczynski disagrees, but goes along with it anyway
The Newsarama Blog finds all sorts of more maddening possibilities about what might happen at the end of "One More Day" in Amazing Spider-Man, including what seems like Peter Parker is literally making a faustian deal with Mephisto that could save Aunt May but erase his marriage with Mary Jane Watson, the "problem" that so bothers Joe Quesada, who continues to suggest that he cannot realize how MJ is but a fictional character, and if there's something about her that bothers him, it's not her fault.
J. Michael Straczynski wrote on his website the following:
Even if they don't try to destroy the Spider-Marriage, and as plenty could agree, there's every chance they won't because they know that fans could stand up and vote with their wallets against such a move, that they kept irritating and hammering us ad nauseum with this whole stupid, stupid, STUPID question of will-they-or-won't-they, for more than five years by now, THAT is but one way in which they did wrong, and not just to the audience, but to their properties as well.
Quesada loves the characters? If he really did, he wouldn't have kept tearing down upon their marriage non-stop, year after year, hour after hour, and he also wouldn't have offed Captain America, not even temporarily. There were all sorts of story possibilities they had at their disposal, including but not limited to tasteful nods to nostalgia that could've applied quite nicely and independently to each and every character/franchise, but instead they chose to put them through the crossover wringer in a mishmash of politicized storylines that did little more than to attack political policies they don't agree with, draining much of the fun out of all their products.
If Quesada really loved what he's in charge of, he would not have
Plus, if JMS really did care about Spider-Man, surely he would've been out the door at Marvel months ago? Why would he even have begun there at all? All he'd done is to imply that what interests him is money, which I figure is what he got into this for in the first place, plus the fact that Marvel saw his own personal audience as a sales draw. His whole blathery message just crashes to earth with a deafening thud.
But even the audience may not be free of blame. JMS's run was practically stale even when he began, yet while I'm sure that some of JMS's audience from Hollywood may have lent to the sales, even the hardcore comics audience are still at fault for legitimizing JMS in the past couple years, probably even more so. I looked at the most recent of The Beat blog's sales charts for Marvel, and what's this I find here? At least 150,000 copies were last sold? What's wrong with these people?
Thanks to them too, the central comics audience, that's why this pretentious TV producer has been able to keep going at it all these years, while some completionist lemmings who buy every single thing Spidey out of habit just kept on buying because they couldn't live without their teddy bear. Even if they drop Spidey now, upon discovery that Mary Jane will be done wrong, which IS possible, and it'd be foolish to think it couldn't happen, that does not excuse how tons of so-called fans continued to buy "out of habit" as they call it, which enabled the insults-upon-injury to get this far for over 5 years.
My point? I think it's time that some people stop buying some Marvel products to send a message to Joe Quesada that we don't want him as EIC of the House of Ideas anymore. As long as he's in charge, all these fan-baitings will just go on and on. Why must we keep letting him feel he can get away with it? He preceded even Dan DiDio as an annoyance to the audience, and there's really no difference between either of them, except perhaps, for one thing: the Marvel audience continues to be less responsible than the DC audience. Shouldn't this begin to change already?
Quesada should be sent a message that fans have had enough, and depending on the product for starters, that's probably where people should stop buying if it encouraged Quesada to go on this.
J. Michael Straczynski wrote on his website the following:
I’ll be honest: there was a point where I made the decision, and told Joe, that I was going to take my name off the last two issues of the OMD arc. Eventually Joe talked me out of that decision because at the end of the day, I don’t want to sabotage Joe or Marvel, and I have a lot of respect for both of those. As an executive producer as well as a writer, I’ve sometimes had to insist that my writers make changes that they did not want to make, often loudly so. They were sure I was wrong. Mostly I was right. Sometimes I was wrong. But whoever sits in the editor’s chair, or the executive producer’s chair, wears the pointy hat of authority, and as Dave Sim once noted, you can’t argue with a pointy hat.Oh, do we? I'd say otherwise, that the common fan has every right to protest what he/she feels is wrong with the steps they may or may not be taking. And I think the following might be one of the best things to say:
So at the end of the day, all one can do is try to do the best one can with the notes one is given, and try to execute them in a professional way…because who knows, the other guy may be right. The only thing I *can* tell you, with absolute certainty, is that what Joe does with Spidey and all the rest of the Marvel characters, he does out of a genuine love of the character. He’s not looking to sabotage anything, he’s not looking to piss off the fans, he genuinely believes in the rightness of his views not out of a sense of “I’m the boss” but because he loves these characters and the Marvel universe.
And right or wrong, you have to respect that.
Even if they don't try to destroy the Spider-Marriage, and as plenty could agree, there's every chance they won't because they know that fans could stand up and vote with their wallets against such a move, that they kept irritating and hammering us ad nauseum with this whole stupid, stupid, STUPID question of will-they-or-won't-they, for more than five years by now, THAT is but one way in which they did wrong, and not just to the audience, but to their properties as well.
Quesada loves the characters? If he really did, he wouldn't have kept tearing down upon their marriage non-stop, year after year, hour after hour, and he also wouldn't have offed Captain America, not even temporarily. There were all sorts of story possibilities they had at their disposal, including but not limited to tasteful nods to nostalgia that could've applied quite nicely and independently to each and every character/franchise, but instead they chose to put them through the crossover wringer in a mishmash of politicized storylines that did little more than to attack political policies they don't agree with, draining much of the fun out of all their products.
If Quesada really loved what he's in charge of, he would not have
- editorially edicted anything related to the Spider-Marriage, and allowed for JMS to tarnish Gwen Stacy, and by extension Mary Jane (in "Sins Past").
- put Captain America in a swamp full of stories that apologized for terrorism, tore down and tarnished the Sentinel of Liberty's origins (The Truth: Red, White and Black), forced him to say "corporate shills", and later kill him off.
- allowed Jean Grey to be killed off.
- allowed Brian Bendis to beat up on the Scarlet Witch, and even to embarrass Hank Pym some more.
- let the Avengers be rendered unrecognizable, confusing them with Heroes for Hire and the Defenders.
- allowed Brian Bendis to write a story where a villain kicks Tigra around in an awful Avengers issue with awful art.
- and many other things that I can't recall now, which is probably a good thing.
Plus, if JMS really did care about Spider-Man, surely he would've been out the door at Marvel months ago? Why would he even have begun there at all? All he'd done is to imply that what interests him is money, which I figure is what he got into this for in the first place, plus the fact that Marvel saw his own personal audience as a sales draw. His whole blathery message just crashes to earth with a deafening thud.
But even the audience may not be free of blame. JMS's run was practically stale even when he began, yet while I'm sure that some of JMS's audience from Hollywood may have lent to the sales, even the hardcore comics audience are still at fault for legitimizing JMS in the past couple years, probably even more so. I looked at the most recent of The Beat blog's sales charts for Marvel, and what's this I find here? At least 150,000 copies were last sold? What's wrong with these people?
Thanks to them too, the central comics audience, that's why this pretentious TV producer has been able to keep going at it all these years, while some completionist lemmings who buy every single thing Spidey out of habit just kept on buying because they couldn't live without their teddy bear. Even if they drop Spidey now, upon discovery that Mary Jane will be done wrong, which IS possible, and it'd be foolish to think it couldn't happen, that does not excuse how tons of so-called fans continued to buy "out of habit" as they call it, which enabled the insults-upon-injury to get this far for over 5 years.
My point? I think it's time that some people stop buying some Marvel products to send a message to Joe Quesada that we don't want him as EIC of the House of Ideas anymore. As long as he's in charge, all these fan-baitings will just go on and on. Why must we keep letting him feel he can get away with it? He preceded even Dan DiDio as an annoyance to the audience, and there's really no difference between either of them, except perhaps, for one thing: the Marvel audience continues to be less responsible than the DC audience. Shouldn't this begin to change already?
Quesada should be sent a message that fans have had enough, and depending on the product for starters, that's probably where people should stop buying if it encouraged Quesada to go on this.
Labels: bad editors, dreadful writers, marvel comics, moonbat writers, Spider-Man, women of marvel
