This was on CNN so I'm not sure a spoiler alert even is required.  Comics are getting so blasted boring and predictable.  Peter Parker dies in issue 700 and is replaced by Doctor octopus.  Any guesses on how long this "death" lasts?

Put me down for 6 months to a year before parker is back.

And when they bring him back, they might as well bring stacey back as well to make things more complicated for him.

I'm glad that I prefer Hart of Dixie, and Castle instead!!

He'll need some new spinnerettes for those extra arms... :lol:

Story arch - A dying Doc Ock manages to swap mental places with Peter Parker and time is running short. 

Now, just figure out how many issues this will go before it resolves itself.  This report has been circulating for a couple of weeks.

Well in the "Ultimates" universe, Peter is already dead and has been replaced by a different kid who took up the Spider-Man name, so this doesn't come as a surprise. Thing is, in the Ultimates version, that death seems to be sticking (ha! pun) but in the classic universe, death never lasts, so if Peter does die or if Doc Ock does, you'll be sure to see him make a return eventually.

Shades of "All of Me", but likely not as funny...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_of_Me_%281984_film%29

Yes, I remember that one.  The men's room scene is hysterical.

I blame the multiverse. It's a cheap excuse to get writers out of a jam. Its actually pathetic. I only read my old comics, you know, the ones that were good. The shit they release these days are predictable and sad.

So when exactly did comics turn to crap?  Early 80s with the dark age?  Before that?

Quote - So when exactly did comics turn to crap?  Early 80s with the dark age?  Before that?

Early eighties. I stopped reading DC Comics after the Crisis on Infinite Earths story line anyway. And Spider-man was really the only Marvel character I ever liked anyway. I tolerated the rest of them.

Quote - So when exactly did comics turn to crap?  Early 80s with the dark age?  Before that?

Typically somewhere between your 15th to 18th birthday.

Quote - > Quote - So when exactly did comics turn to crap?  Early 80s with the dark age?  Before that?

Typically somewhere between your 15th to 18th birthday.

Yes but the older you get the more the crap washes off and if stored correctly that crap turns into gold. When my brother died, his widow sold some old comics he had that he kept in plastic bags, in a box so no light faded them and made a couple of grand.