I did a directed-study course years ago on cosmic horror fiction, and for one year when I taught fall semester 101-102 courses as an adjunct, I focused on horror fiction as the lit portion of the class. I was the only instructor nobody dropped that year.:)
I've got all of the John Holmes and Michael Whelan covers. I've also got two editions of the Arkham House hardcovers, along with the complete letters, and some other stuff from Arkham House.
Most people experience that desire to be with someone who sees and loves your authentic self, with whom you can drop your mask; it sucks that Conway no longer appreciates how much Parallel Lives resonated with readers.
It's the *writers and editors* who haven't been a particularly diverse crowd.
It's still going - maybe the higher-profile Marvel shills like Gvozden and Ginocchio have quit doing it.
As I said, the pro-PeterMJ fans, the pro-marriage fans included, are pretty diverse - plenty of LGBTQ fans, the majority of fanfic writers are women, etc.
So I'm asking all of my pro-PeterMJ friends on this site: what makes their story important to you, and why do you want the current era of Spider-Man comics to end?
A cursory look around at the PeterMJ fandom, even those who specifically want their marriage back, would show that that's a bad-faith accusation. We're a diverse group.
One thing that annoys me about the pro-One More Day contingent (or at least the Spider-Man fans who are indifferent to the damage its wreaked on the franchise) is the constant accusation that those of us who hate the last eighteen years of the title are all conservative tradmarriage types.
