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> > And one day, Peter just stopped caring about Flash because he has more important things to do obviously.
> > If Flash has been badly treated, it was during Jenkins' tenure IMO.
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> According to who? After those first two arcs, Jenkins was bombarded by requests from editorial to write certain stories. He wasn't writing what HE wanted to write, he was doing what was asked of him. See, for example, the Queen arc. After that, he got maybe one or two issues to himself before the title was hijacked once again by the sequel to Sins Past, which he didn't write. After that story, Marvel decided to cancel the series. So he never got a chance to take the Flash subplot as far as he wanted to take it.
What 2 arcs ? He dropped it after the FIRST arc with Venom.
The Queen arc is always the exemple given by Jenkins's fans but EVEN if you skip on it, (and he could have adressed the Flash sub-plot during it, even just in a "freakin" line here and there ...) Jenkins still had issues 7 to 14, 21 and 22, and 27 of Spectacular to adress and follow that. That makes 11 issues in which he CHOSE not to use or adress the Flash sub-plot.
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> What 2 arcs ? He dropped it after the FIRST arc with Venom.
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> The Queen arc is always the exemple given by Jenkins's fans but EVEN if you skip on it, (and he could have adressed the Flash sub-plot during it, even just in a "freakin" line here and there ...) Jenkins still had issues 7 to 14, 21 and 22, and 27 of Spectacular to adress and follow that. That makes 11 issues in which he CHOSE not to use or adress the Flash sub-plot.
He can't well make the book about the Flash subplot. Writers need to move things at their own pace. Otherwise they're just hacking stuff out, and not writing the way they feel like they should write. In the Doc Ock arc, the story about Doc Ock and the ambassador took precedence over the Flash subplot. The fourteenth issue wasn't even about Spider-Man. It was about Joey. The final issue was about...his final issue. It was him putting a close on five years of working on the character. So that took precedence.
When he wrote these issues, he believed he had the entire book all to himself to deal with the Flash subplot. So he could go at his own pace, and do it like he felt was right. Marvel had other plans, so he couldn't do what he wanted.
