(I don’t consider what Jeff or David are doing to be actual boycotts, really, but I’ve gone into that ad nauseum in the Savage Critics comments. Nevertheless, what they’re doing is much closer to a boycott than someone just dropping Marvel because they don’t like the content.)

For example, luclin999 says OMD was a “train wreck which damaged the entire Marvel line.” That’s right, it damged the line… by causing an immediate jump in quality?! WHAT?! HAHA!

There’s a false equivalency in your argument (and Alonso’s, too). OMD happened to coincide with Marvel putting well-matched, A-level of talent on ASM, so of course it turned into a good-to-great book. I’ve read ASM off and on since OMD, and I have to say that Peter being single is a minuscule-to-nonexistent portion of what makes it enjoyable. To say that the quality writing and art that marks Slott’s ASM could not have happened without the events of OMD is disingenuous (and insulting to Slott and his artists).

Before that fiasco, I subscribed to 20 Marvel books a month but dropped every single one of them in the weeks following OMD. I haven’t given them a single penny of my money since.

As far as I am concerned, OMD was a poorly written train wreck which damaged the entire Marvel line.

Hell, even Stan Lee decided to retcon the version of it that Marvel pushed off onto the daily strip as “just a bad dream” and if the character’s creator feels that dumping the marriage was a bad idea then who the Hell does Quesada think he is to have continued supporting it?

I have to say that I’ve moved over to the DC aisle and I’ve been happy ever since.

Either this is a canny strategy to avoid uncomfortable realities, or they really believe their fans are so blindly loyal that they’ll buy whatever Marvel’s selling, but evidence seems to run to the contrary.

And, quite honestly, I may be dropping DAREDEVIL soon. The last couple of cross-overs and the poor art in the last issue have got me thinking maybe I don’t need to be reading this ongoing.

It’s just obvious to me that Marvel is much more concerned with getting product onto the shelves as quickly and in quantity as possible and not particularly invested in that product being as good as it could be.

For one thing, he’s frequently a “gateway character.” Losing interest in him can prompt an overall lack of interest in the MU. The bigger consideration is that he’s a hard character to escape, especially these days. He’s in the Avengers and the Fantastic Four, recently had two crossovers with Daredevil (one of which also involved the Punisher), etc., etc.

As for the whole “rectifying” bit, where OMD was concerned, that was seen as a story that rectified an existing problem and the leadership at Marvel hasn’t changed since then. And continuing to buy hoping for a fix is foolish given the whole “voting with your wallet” thing.

Anyway, this is hardly a “weird admission.” A weird admission would be, “I dress up like Murphy Brown” or “I only eat candy corn.” This is more just saying something out loud that everybody understands and maybe we should stop getting so freaked out about every three months.