I’m not absolutely certain what this guy is going for with this rambling screed, but the gist of it seems to be that he’s upset andoffended by the recent JMS Gwen Stacy storyline. I’m not about to defend JMS’ writing on this one, as it’s pretty much the arc that made me drop Amazing Spider-Man, but man, this much venom over the thing seems a bit excessive. I’m especially amused by the fact that the writer seems oblivious as to how to break a blog up into smaller, readable posts, as well as his mini tirade against trolls at the top. Hey, dude - you wanna paint a big nerd-target on your back, you’d better be prepared to take a few bodyshots.

The primary purpose of this essay is to examine the life and times of Gwen Stacy and Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin, and how I (and many, many others) feel these characters (as well as Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson-Parker) have been blatantly defiled by writer J. Michael Straczynski’s “Sins Past” storyarc in Amazing Spider-Man # 509-514 (which revealed that Gwen Stacy had a fling with Norman Osborn and secretly had his children before he killed her).

It’s also designed to dissect and debunk Sins Past, and show how the numerous retcons and mischaracterizations that appear in the storyline are simply not possible. I feel that consistency of character is more important than strict continuity, but since JMS and the gang have insisted on dredging up the past and retconning it, I will show, point-by-point, how the events depicted in this story are not possible. This essay is designed to be THE one-stop resource for information on this topic, as well as other subtopics related to the downfall of Spider-Mam, Marvel, and the superhero genre. There are many sub-issues that have emerged from Sins Past that I’ll also address, such as the controversial return of Norman Osborn, the controversial aging and marriage of Peter Parker, the gradual destruction of everything that has made Spider-Man a great and iconic comic book character, and the creative and moral disintegration of the superhero genre itself!

Read the rest, if you dare…

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