Saying Goodbye to Spider-Man

[Super unedited geek rant incoming, beware grammar and spelling mistakes. I ain't editing fer shit.]

Amazing Spider-Man just finished an arc called One Moment in Time (OMIT for short. Oh the irony), and I'm finished with Spider-Man.

Ever since I can remember, I've been a webhead. One of my earliest memories is playing "Spider MAN!" at my Grandma's house with a pair of briefs over my head I'd rigged up to be like a spidey mask. I'd running around doing kicks and pretending to spew webbing from my wrists at invisible bad guys. Later, I bought a few comics (Deadpool, Spider-Man etc) and read them. Though Deadpool was a bit edgy for my young self, I adored SM (we'll call him that cuz it's a long name) even more now that I'd read his print work. Fastforward to a trip along the California coast and I'm buying thick volumes that collect years of vintage SM comics reprinted for reading pleasure, which I do. Move to the overnight boat I took from England to Spain, and there I am sitting outside devouring SM novels like Revenge of the Secret Six, or me going nuts when I heard there would be a SM MOVIE of all things.

Fine, fine. So I've stuck with Peter Parker for much of my life and, up until the other day, had been buying each issue of Amazing Spider-Man (ASM) when it came out at my local comic shop. However, on a routine trip to the store, I talked to the employee about changing which comics I was subscribed to, and promptly removed Spidey from my list of titles. But, why?! Well, it's pretty simple:

I'm tired of it. Sure, the tried-and-true SM antics are still around, and his famous villains are all bursting to make returns in small story arcs that aren't too shabby. However, I simply cannot justify it anymore. In OMIT, Mary Jane and Peter Parker have a long heart to heart about their past, relationship, and what went wrong. The end culminates in revealing everything that went into reversing a nasty bit of recent history (which ruined Spidey's life) and features Mary Jane telling Peter that she cannot be with him anymore and that he should move on. Which he does, apparently. This is the issue; seeing SM declare a brand new day having just looked back on a print history I was very into throughout childhood made me feel like I was reading the closing chapter of the entire Spidey universe.

So see ya, Spider-Man, may you web swing forever and stuff. I've enjoyed reading the comic, and  seeing the second movie. It's time for me to migrate to greener pastures both in comics, and in .. well ok maybe just comics.