>I disagree, but I understand.
>
>Not to ride the fence here but I do think it's possible to
>hate on a premise rationally... just so long as you're not
>jumping to conclusions about the execution.
>
>So 'this idea is wack to me' is perfectly valid and impossible
>to argue with in its subjectivity. But 'they should've wrapped
>it up in 2 issues', is mind boggling to me. The bullshit
>wheel-spinning our comics get away with these days, and you
>want THIS to be a 2-issue arc. It's taken the Fantastic Four 4
>issues and 2 titles just to get into a spaceship and leave the
>Baxter Building.
>

I get what you’re trying to say, but just because other comics draw shit out for dubious reasons doesn’t mean that this one has to be, or that people have to like it.
That said, I think the familiarity with the idea is why a lot of people think it could/should be 2-3 issues since that’s the typical length of a mind-swap superhero story. My honest reaction to the “twist” in 698 was that, if Marvel didn’t announce it as a big thing, no one would have treated it was supposed to be one. It’s such a standard plotline that the elevation to Big New Thing makes it feel more artificial than it really needs to.


>I mean, mind-swapping and supervillain redemption are nothing
>new, but the specifics of this particular set-up has loads of
>potential. I have trouble seeing how people can't see that
>this could easily propel a book for a year or two - even if
>it's a book they themselves wouldn't want to read.

I don’t necessarily think that the book’s detractors are saying that it can’t run for X amount of years (or whenever the next new Spidey movie comes out), just that they’re not feeling the idea. Shit, Cap-Wolf could have run for at least 10.