Ultimate Spider Man: Peter Parker is dead, long live Spider-Man

[The Sevenshot Kid]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

Like nobody in this thread except maybe Sevenshot has any basis for talking about the character they "grew up with" being replaced, because this isn't that character. And only him if he's one of the like... 20,000 people in the United States who still buys Ultimate Spider-Man.

I am/was. All 160 issues.

Originally Posted by Nikose Tyris

Actually the Ultimate Spiderman cartoon was kind of crap in comparison to the 90's Animated series one.

The comics weren't awful though.

I believe that you're thinking of Spider-Man Unlimited. He goes into space for some reason and it was all stupid.

[Fifthfiend]

I mean everybody* should be upset with the Peter Parker they grew up reading comics about being replaced - in 2007, with a shittily written, unlikeable, devil-dealing douchebag, named "Peter Parker".

*and by "everybody" I mean people who care about comics. Which is to say, basically nobody, because nobody reads comics.

[The Sevenshot Kid]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

I mean everybody* should be upset with the Peter Parker they grew up reading comics about being replaced - in 2007, with a shittily written, unlikeable, devil-dealing douchebag, named "Peter Parker".

That was my example of when my childhood died. Just sayin'.

[Jagos]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

I mean everybody* should be upset with the Peter Parker they grew up reading comics about being replaced - in 2007, with a shittily written, unlikeable, devil-dealing douchebag, named "Peter Parker".

*and by "everybody" I mean people who care about comics. Which is to say, basically nobody, because nobody reads comics.

We are pissed about that. But unless Carne Quesada dies sometime soon, he gives not a fly nor a fuck how we, the buyers of comics, feel.

[Overcast]

We are pissed off, who said we weren't pissed off?

[Token]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

I mean everybody* should be upset with the Peter Parker they grew up reading comics about being replaced - in 2007, with a shittily written, unlikeable, devil-dealing douchebag, named "Peter Parker".

Yes. Which is why Ultimate fans are sad that the relatable, non-douchey Parker is being replaced.

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

Like nobody in this thread except maybe Sevenshot has any basis for talking about the character they "grew up with" being replaced, because this isn't that character. And only him if he's one of the like... 20,000 people in the United States who still buys Ultimate Spider-Man.

With a quick check "Death of Spider-man" sold 159,000 copies.

[Kim]

Isn't it preferable to waiting for the eventuality of him being handed off to a new writer and getting turned into a douchebag?

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Karesh

With a quick check "Death of Spider-man" sold 159,000 copies.

Event sales don't mean shit.

EDIT: I could write THE DEATH OF ARCHIE and sell a million copies, it doesn't mean that Archie actually has a million readers.

[Token]

Originally Posted by NonCon

Isn't it preferable to waiting for the eventuality of him being handed off to a new writer and getting turned into a douchebag?

Bendis has written him for the entire run of the series, he's still writing UC:SM, and as I said, he had plans for at least two more years of comics. That wouldn't have been an issue, so your point is moot.