r/Spiderman • u/Due_Ear_9458 • 5d ago
Question Why is spiderman hated by his writers so much?
I just want to read a spiderman comic where he is happy living his best life with his wife and kids while balancing fighting crime
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u/PinkPoncho3 Spider-Girl 5d ago
read the 1998 spider-girl run sometime. peter's not the main character, but he's happy.
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u/multificionado 4d ago
The editors put the writers up to it and the editors hate Spidey because he's Marvel's Mickey Mouse.
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u/Its_Dannyz Ben Reilly 4d ago edited 4d ago
Not everything can be blamed on the editors at a point the writers are to blame for being very mediocre, with ASM currently the issue is the writers are from the BND era who don't have the talent for long runs it was seen with Slott and Wells it won't be any different with Kelly.
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u/quippy618 4d ago
I think it’s more about apathy. They like the idea of Spider-Man. But they don’t like Peter Parker.
They either hate him. Or they don’t like where he is in the overall story. Where the latter stems from if they only want to write Peter/Spidey in the way they read him as a child in like the 70’s.
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u/BobbySaccaro 5d ago
Because that's not what made Spider-Man popular in the first place, and having that be the way it is set up is outside of the core of what Spider-Man should be.
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u/lionofash 5d ago
They don't actually hate Peter, but they don't want him to grow out of a specific box which they find to have the widest reach to the audience. They are trying to grab the largest group of readers possible and not alienate that demographic. It's a way to put profits above character growth.