In article <mb2vq6$5gf$
3...@news.albasani.net>,
"Jim G." <jimg...@geemail.com.invalid> wrote:
> anim8rFSK sent the following on 02/05/2015 at 04:56 PM:
> > In article <mb0o5k$s7c$
1...@news.albasani.net>,
> > "Jim G." <jimg...@geemail.com.invalid> wrote:
> >
> >> anim8rFSK sent the following on 02/04/2015 at 07:37 PM:
> >>> We may get the Peter Parker Spider-Man, or the
> >>> latin Spider-Man from the other universe where Peter Parker is dead.
> >>
> >> Or one of the 13,185 other lame Spider-People we're meeting in the
> >> gawdawful Spider-verse arc.
> >
> > I guess I'll actually read Spider-Gwen.
>
> Personally, I think that Peter's crazy if he's not tapping Cindy on a
> regular basis when this is all over.
>
> > Goddamn you Gerry Conway and JMS.
> >
> > Goddamn you both straight to Hell.
>
> Cindy >>> Gwen when you factor in the fact that Cindy and Peter actually
> have something important in common.
>
> Beyond that, I still can't blame writers at Marvel (or DC, for that
> matter) for story lines. Ultimately, those things either come down from
> the editors and executive editors above or else they're *approved* by
> those higher-ups in those cases where the writer is actually the owner
> of a given story arc idea. In the present case, did Conway ever take
> personal ownership of Gwen's death, or was it an edict from above that
> he had to script?
Conway claimed he came up with it and ran it past Stan. Stan says he's
lying, that the first he ever knew of it was when he opened the
published book, and wished they hadn't done it (he said that to me
personally). He also said that he was okay with the Gwen clone business
(which was very early on at the time) because while it might not be the
best solution, at least she was still out there somewhere.
Decades later Conway's claiming Romita came up with it. I think he's
lying the way JMS is about Sins Past. In fact I *know* they're both
lying; they both claimed credit when they thought it was going to be
well received, and both denied it when they found out how horribly wrong
they were. We just don't know which is the lie.
Conway could go either way, although I'm inclined to believe he's at
fault, since his excuse about Romita didn't surface for decades. I'm
much more certain JMS is at fault, as his retractions and bizarre tales
of how it went down are contradictory and don't make any sense at all.