taraco wrote:
Younger readers had trouble relating to such a character, the company feared, and plummeting sales showed it.
Actually, Spider-Man sales were very healthy...until they first tried to erase the marriage with the Clone Saga. A married Spider-Man is much easier to relate to than some cosmic shmoe whose epically bizarre life is in constant upheaval. Marvel has damaged the character largely by trying fix something that was arguably never broken in the first place. For their sake, I hope they deliver on these theoretically wonderful single Spider-Man stories because if they don't it's just going to result in the character looking even weirder than he ever did ("Married Spidey - Bad! Making Deals With Satan Spidey - Good!").

Married, umarried, I just want to see Spidey make wisecracks while smacking around bad guys and getting smeared by Jonah. Why can't Marvel do something as simple as THAT?