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Over in Joe Quesada's "Joe Fridays" column at Newsarama, Marvel's EiC spends most of his space this week bad-mouthing Peter Parker's marriage, saying that it was a bad idea but it's a mistake that they'll have to live with.
There's plenty I find galling in his statements on so many levels, I'm not sure where to begin. Take this quote for example-
So, basically, is JoeyQ is calling for characters to remain stagnant, never growing, changing or evolving? Does this man have no grasp of the principals of storytelling?
He also goes on to say that there's no real storytelling potential in the marriage, that's it's a deadend of sorts. I'm sorry, but that's a load of fertilizer. I am a firm believer that thyere is no such thing as a bad story idea, only bad execution. Just because one writer can't find a way to make a story work doesn't allow for the fact that another could make it work.
Also, isn't the whole theme of the character of Spiderman "With great power comes great responsibility"? Isn't marriage a huge responsibility in and of itself? It seems as if Spidey getting married is a natural progression in the evolution and exploration of the idea of responsibility.
JoeyQ states that a married Spiderman is as relateable to the readers? WTF!? Is he trying to say that his readership are bunch of unwashed slobs who don't have the chance of getting a date let alone a bride? Is he stereotyping his own readership? That's a pretty jerky thing to say.
Also, I found all his comments about how the marriage doiesn't work very insulting to the writers who have found interesting stories in the premise, including JMS. JMS's early work on the series, bringing the then-seperated Peter and MJ back together was some of the best writing I can recall on the characters in 20 years. (And his Aunt May stuff was fantastic too!)
I think Quesada is way off base on this one, and if this is how he things through all his storytelling decisions, it's no wonder that I only pick up about five or six Marvel titles a month versus the twelve to fifeteen DC titles.
There's plenty I find galling in his statements on so many levels, I'm not sure where to begin. Take this quote for example-
What happens is that we as creators forget that there are always new readers coming into comics, why shouldnÆt they experience Peter as we did when we discovered him.
He also goes on to say that there's no real storytelling potential in the marriage, that's it's a deadend of sorts. I'm sorry, but that's a load of fertilizer. I am a firm believer that thyere is no such thing as a bad story idea, only bad execution. Just because one writer can't find a way to make a story work doesn't allow for the fact that another could make it work.
Also, isn't the whole theme of the character of Spiderman "With great power comes great responsibility"? Isn't marriage a huge responsibility in and of itself? It seems as if Spidey getting married is a natural progression in the evolution and exploration of the idea of responsibility.
JoeyQ states that a married Spiderman is as relateable to the readers? WTF!? Is he trying to say that his readership are bunch of unwashed slobs who don't have the chance of getting a date let alone a bride? Is he stereotyping his own readership? That's a pretty jerky thing to say.
Also, I found all his comments about how the marriage doiesn't work very insulting to the writers who have found interesting stories in the premise, including JMS. JMS's early work on the series, bringing the then-seperated Peter and MJ back together was some of the best writing I can recall on the characters in 20 years. (And his Aunt May stuff was fantastic too!)
I think Quesada is way off base on this one, and if this is how he things through all his storytelling decisions, it's no wonder that I only pick up about five or six Marvel titles a month versus the twelve to fifeteen DC titles.
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