Anonymous asked: Nobody likes OMD. why does marvel refuse to undo it?

mrsspidermanmaryjanewatsonparker:

phantomroxas:

cassandracaindesiresstuff:

hayley566:

brevoortformspring:

The medicine may not taste good, but if it makes you better, then you need to take it.

You’re joking, right? OMD is not a medicine. It’s a poison.

‘Medicine’ implies it makes you stronger when there are people who are so disgusted and appalled by the events of that story that they try and stay away from Spider-Man and think “maybe when they get him back on track like he was supposed to be.”

When there are people who are not buying your comic when they could be buying your comic and it’s all because of a single stupid storyline that NOBODY thinks is good unless they have an agenda, you don’t keep trying to hammer it in with several new girlfriends that just don’t fit, you realize that you fucked up so that you can make MORE FUCKING MONEY off of the people who left. And nobody is going to leave for undoing OMD, people might threaten to, but largely you’ll get /way/ more praise by getting rid of it then by just sitting on it looking the other way.

And really, when Mary Jane has to be brought in as a “marketing gimmick” to draw in fans, then what would have been even the point of OMD? If Mary Jane’s sheer presence is meant to bring the fans back, why bother breaking her and Peter up in the first place? “Renew Your Vows” has generated hype because of the teaser art and the title. “Renew Your Vows” leads the readers to anticipate a response to the story that eliminated the marriage in the first place.

How was OMD supposed to be “medicine” to begin with? I get it, you’re going for an analogy, but the main person who “needed” the medicine was Joe Quesada. It wasn’t a “cure” for the fans, it was just one man who decided that his ego was more important than the audience.

This.

Oh and by the way Tom, newsflash.

You tried this in the 1990s when it was called the Clone Saga. 

People didn’t like it.

You tried it again in the 2000s when it was called the Mackie/Byrne Reboot.

People didn’t like it.

You’ve now tried a third/fourth/fifth time with One More Day/One Moment in Time/Superior Spider-Man #31

People have disliked it more than those other two first times.

You got him married in 1987. A lot of comics got sold off the back of that.

You got him reunited in 2003 in Amazing Spider-Man Volume 2 #50. People loved that, then claimed it was the best thing about JMS’ run. 

You did a story celebrating the marriage in 2007 called Sensational Spider-Man Annual Volume 2 #1 (by Matt Fraction and Salvador Larocca). It got nominated for an award, something few if any Spider-Man stories since then have been.

Catch a clue, no one wants this but YOU guys. 

But what YOU guys wants counts for jack when you’re in the customer service industry. WE pay YOU money to entertain us. So stop doing shit that indulges YOU that WE don’t like and actually give us things you think WE might enjoy.

If your whole spiel is “But teh illusion of change!!!!!! Eventually we’ll run out of stories to tell about a married Spider-Man!”. The illusion of change only works if new fans cycle in in large enough numbers whilst the older fans depart. History has shown us neither is happening. And even if that WAS happening the new fans wouldn’t have read the married stories before so you COULD retell them!

Or, to sum up, get the over yourselves.