[KRX]

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Originally Posted by ElConvoy

Well hes coming back

http://comicbook.com/blog/2014/01/08...n-to-relaunch/

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Originally Posted by Galvantula

I knew he was coming back. Sure, his life in now in the toilet so to speak; but I'm sure this'll make a lot of people happy as clams.

With strange comic stunts like this I've learnt to just laugh it off. You have to have a sense of humor when stupid things happen and let creators know what works and what doesn't.

KRX, your prays have been answered.

Okay, I guess you want my thoughts on this. After more than a year of complaining, more than a year of nerd-rage, more than a year of hurt feelings, how do I feel about the return of The Amazing Spider-Man?

I'm pretty sure this is a flashback series. Dan Slott doesn't seem to have finished up with OctoPeter, and I don't think he will be for a few years. Or at least, if he's going to go the route that everyone thinks he will (Peter returns to find his life in ruins), I don't think he should.

My main problem with The Superior Spider-Man isn't that Peter Parker isn't Spider-Man. My main problem is that the Spider-Man that replaced him is not a hero. I think, objectively, The Superior Spider-Man is a good comic. It has an engaging story, interesting side-characters, and a very nice sense of unpredictability. My one gripe (aside from Humberto Ramos's artwork) is that I can't get behind Doctor Octopus as a hero. Yes, crime has gone down thanks to his efforts as Spider-Man, a lot more than what Peter accomplished. But he does not honor the code of Spider-Man. That lesson, which Peter gave to him with his dying breath? It's rendered naught in five issues. The responsibility that comes with the power? Otto doesn't have that. He only has his arrogant displays. I can only think of one instance in which I could get behind him as a hero, and that was when he performed surgery on that little girl.

With all of that, one would think that I'd want Peter back immediately, right? With the direction the story seems to be going in right now, I think Slott should wait a bit. I would love to have Peter back. But I think the best way for him to come back would be to have Otto give Peter his life back. Otto needs to make the choice, not because of his arrogance, but because it's the heroic thing to do.

In a story where a villain becomes a hero, the best way to end it would be to have the hero make the heroic choice. Otto took up the mantle of Spider-Man because of his desire to make Peter Parker inferior, not a newfound sense of responsibility. Otto has yet to learn what it means to be a hero. His story should end with that. Then I can say that, even though I complained about it over and over and over again, in the end, Otto Octavius's stint as Spider-Man was worthwhile.