If you haven't read Jason Bourgeois's column about Amazing Spiderman, I suggest you do so now. It was reading Jason's article that got my blood to boiling. I am appalled that the powers that be at Marvel had the nerve to insert that Mary Jane scene into Amazing Spiderman. Not only did One More Day piss off a lot of Marvel readers, but it hurt them too, because fans get invested in the characters after years and years of reading about them. That's the beauty of comics...with a book, you read it, you like the characters, but after the book is done, so are the characters. There is a finite period of time that you will get to know the characters, so the emotional investment is limited. With comics, most characters will have stories and adventures over decades, and you do tend to get emotionally invested because the successful characters aren't going anywhere and it's usually safe. Some characters you invest in more, some less, but most characters come to mean something to you over a period of time, as you find things to relate to in all of the characters that you read about. I find the arrogance of Marvel heaving the scene between Peter and Mary Jane into Amazing Spiderman totally a slap in the face of the fans, who have supported their product for years and years. I find their hubris amazing. I don't think it's a funny or a clever scene where Peter and Mary Jane laugh about their previous relationship. That scene did not move the story forward, there was no reason for that scene to be there except to thumb their collective noses at the fans. Haha Fanboys, it's over, and we want to beat you over the head with it! Well, unless this is some foreshadowing of Peter Parker and Mary Jane becoming a couple again, but I'm betting that it's not . . . it's just some nebulous and ill thought out nod to what has gone before. I will never buy a Spiderman comic while the powers that be sit at the helm of Marvel. It demonstrates their total disregard for their readers' sensibilities. I think they have forgotten who they make these comics for. Oh right! Maybe they are just doing it so they can hang on to their copyright and make movies with the characters. It's apparent to me that they are not doing these books for readers who care about the characters. That's OK, I suspect the Marvel movie train will have to crash and burn eventually and Karma's a bitch.

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