Many fans and comic historians consider "The Death of Gwen Stacy" the official end of the Silver Age of Comics as no one had actually killed off a long-running member of a hero's supporting cast up to that point. Bob's smooth brain cannot understand the significance of the event, and I'm (not) sorry, Gwen Stacy is a character who has a greater legacy in death than she ever had in life. I would argue the same for Norman Osborn whose death severely impacted his son, Harry, who struggled with bouts of psychosis before his own demise in Spectacular Spider-Man #200. The only reason why Norman returned from the grave was because Marvel wrote themselves into a corner during the Clone Saga while Gwen stayed dead.
Before orphanages, babies were just left out in the wilds to die.
I'm not surprised Bob would hate that given he wants everything to be in the Silver Age and wants DC to take that route with their films, especially Batman
Back during the One More Day comics was released I visited a lot of the CBR forums. "Ranting about Spidey's love life" has consumed terrabytes of "discussion" there...
That series was wacky about Peter's girlfriends. It had huge plotline with Debra Whitman. A character so niche in any other Spider media that I keep wondering if one of the writers had a crash on her.
This might explain why his entire defense is whiteknighting imaginary "little girls admiring Gwen". He assumes that some 12 years old girl will read his tweets and fall in love with him.
There are even way more. Spider-Girl, several Spider-Women etc. The only one which had any modicum of long running success is Jessica Drew. And even that is highly debatable. Gwen did have a lot of initial sales based on the premise. But she is in the same league as Miles, that stretchy terrorist, Silk that you mentioned yourself etc. "The new generation which is just shallow imitations of earlier generation but with colors instead of personality".
I always like the spider girl that was Peter's daughter.
And yet certain people will complain about the power needed to run crypto...
LOL
No! No more fucking furries!
Sweet Freya, the Silver Age Batman was godawful and Lois Lane's solo title was outselling it in the sixties. The revitalization of the Dark Knight didn't even begin until Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams took over in the 70s. Indeed, I find much of Bronze Age DC Comics underrated. I doubt that Bob would know that Clark Kent was a television news anchor from 1971 to 1986 until Byrne's Man of Steel reboot sent him back to the Daily Planet.
That seems to be the order of the day at the Big Two. It truly grinds my gears to see how badly derailed Jon Kent to artificially age him to the point where he is a carbon copy of his father bereft of any personality traits of his own. The only distinction between Jon and Clark is that the former fancies pink-haired twinks and that's not really a trait you can build a character on. To think DC exiled Conner Kent and Bart Allen to limbo for this--both having had series that lasted 100 and 89 issues, respectively.
I didn't include Mayday was she comes from and stayed in an alternate future, but yeah, I see her as the definitive Spider-Girl.
I'd argue Julia Carpenter was a more popular Spider-Woman than even Jessica Drew. Drew was in Limbo for decades until Bendis used her in New Avengers and the most interesting thing about her was the was the Skrull Queen in Secret Invasion. That and the piece of Trivia the only reason Jessica Jones exist is because Marvel told Bendis he couldn't use Drew in the Alias series he did for the Max line.
And my ancestors sacked the yiffing freaks
ACKTUALLY
You could replace the word Believers with the word Moviebobs, and the resulting statement would have more basis in reality, simply because Moviebob has literally contributed nothing beneficial to society at large.
Read: Eternals is garbage but I'm to wrapped up in ideological dogma and fanwank to admit it (so here's a convoluted reason why that's a good thing)
God bless that man (of spiders).
The ONLY reason I rate Jessica Drew higher is that she had her own animated series so to this day her look is the "classic Spider-Woman" look. But I agree that you can argue both ways.
Not if you put your mind to it.
I'm not that interested in the MCU anymore, but that actually sounds really interesting.
Off-topic, but didn't Linkara say he preferred that show over Spectacular Spider-Man for some reason?
You're telling me Bob didn't compare Gwen Stacy dying to the JFK assassination?
I thought the release of Sonic was the JFK assassination, and the console wars was 'Nam? I could be wrong, its hard to keep track of all the atrocities that Bob compares to insignificant minutiae.
