Why does Spider-Man have so many embarrassingly bad stories?

Why does Spider-Man have so many embarrassingly bad stories?

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because once he tried really hard and picked up the steel in issue 31 his character arc was completed and there is nothing else to do with him

Spider-Man has existed for 60 years.

Marvel really hated Peter's marriage to MJ and them trying to get out of it has led to some of the worst comics ever.

god that was badass

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he lifted it so good

This. When you consider that characters like Wonder Woman and Flash have been around for 80 years and have almost exclusively bad comics, Spider-Man actually looks very good in comparison

he did

what's wrong with imprisoning your still living still conscious enemies in a museum to your own greatness from which they can never escape because you broke time

you fucking sjws don't understand street justice that's the problem

yeah honestly i think late 2000s broke the character

His bad to good run ratio is about the same as Daredevil.
>inb4 n-no muh perfect DD can't have bad runs his entire history is muh Millar muh Nocenti wahhhhh
Cry harder, Daredevilfags.

The Daredevil thing is truly overplayed. No one recommends anything pre-Miller, and no one recommends anything post-Nocenti and pre-Marvel Knights. Those are huge swaths of material that everyone pretends doesn't exist. Heck, on the Marvel side I'd say Captain America and Thor both have much better batting averages

>His bad to good run ratio is about the same as Daredevil.
You're delusional, Spider-Man had more bad than good runs.

I mean, look how many comics have been made over the years. Of course the good ones will be diamonds in the rough. That said, just through sheer volume of material there is a lot of good stuff to select from. It's easy to say "oh Moon Knight has no bad comics" when he barely has 200. Fact is there is more good Spider-Man than good Moon Knight

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ASM is fantastic for hundreds of issues.

>issue 31
33, but who's counting

>"oh Moon Knight has no bad comics"
And that's not even true.

Not really, Amazing Spider-Man is mostly solid.

Up to 350 at least.

Trash eater

The absolute shitty taste holy fuck.

>Slott
>Good
No, fucking no.

I wouldn't go that far. It's villain of the week/saturday morning cartoon soap opera tier most of the time. Most of the standout storylines involve the death of a character (Death of the Stacys, Death of Green Goblin, Death of Jean Dewolf, Death of Kraven, Death of Green Goblin again..). Oh and of course the one good spot of Clone Saga, the (finally!) Death of Aunt May (whoops nevermind she was an actress?)
A lot of the beats just feel very cheap and the stories in between feel very safe. You get the impression Marvel knew it was their golden goose and didn't take too many chances. Titles like Simonson's Thor, Miller's Daredevil, or Starlin's Warlock could never have emerged from the pages of a Spider-Man book. The most daring Spider-Man story (Kraven's Last Hunt) only came after Watchmen and Dark Knight cleared the way.

TLDR Spider-Man will rarely let you down, but it really doesn't impress you very often either. It's comfort good I guess.

You're the first person to bring up Slott

comfort food*

Why not just have Ben Riley as his successor? Same issue with Miles when he was originally introduced, there was no reason Peter had to die for Miles to become spiderman

At this point maybe but spider-man between 62 to about 92 is almost perfect sure he had a few clunkers but he really was the gold standard of long form continuity.

His She Hulk was pretty good tho

>The most daring Spider-Man story (Kraven's Last Hunt) only came after Watchmen and Dark Knight cleared the way.
By what metric?

Ben isn't black

His Ren and Stimpy was a lot of fun as well. Never got the appeal of his Silver Surfer comics, it felt like a mediocre sci fi tv series

>Why not just have Ben Riley as his successor?
Maybe because the story that was meant to make him the new Spider-Man is one of the most infamous and convoluted stories in fucking comic book history.

I mean just read it and compare it to the Spider-Man comics that precede it. Spider-Man comics up to that point were very simplistic in their storytelling
A few years prior the "classic" Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut is just 3 issues of Spider-Man narrating about how strong the Juggernaut is while he jumps around. Oh another classic story involving the death of a character (Madame Web, who can forget this gem of a character)