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> > Then, Jenkins' pace wasn't good at all : Without the Queen arc, you still had 11 issues, that is to say almost a WHOLE YEAR of stories to adress Flash's condition.
> > You're telling us here editors should not interfere in the writers' stories, fine, but what's your point ?
> > As far as I know, the Dock Ock arc WAS Jenkins' story, the Lizard' arc WAS Jenkins' story, as well as issues 14, 21, 22 and 27, in which he didn't adressed the Flash subplot... knowing from issue 21, at least, that Marvel will end Spectacular. He chose to write a story about Poker (huh ?!), Mindworm (Huh?! again), instead of adressing the Flash subplot. It seems it prevailed over the Flash's suplot...it shouldn't IMO.
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> Well, that's your opinion. He was writing it as he saw fit.
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Yeah, it's my opinion that when you cripple a character like Flash (or any other main characters) and that you know you'll have your title cancelled (and even if it's not the case, not adressing it for a whole year is already bad in itself ...), that adressing it should prevail over the rest instead of writting stories you want to write. That is called respect to the readers.
And I think I'm not alone to think that way.
> > That's only make things worst : It was HIS RESPONSABILITY to put a final word on this, he didn't.
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> Because...he didn't get a chance to. Why is that so hard to understand? He evidently wanted to take it somewhere, being that he kept writing it and hinting that Flash was getting better, but other stories, other writers and the title getting canceled got in the way.
C'mon, are you serious ? 11 issues (even giving you credit for the 6 part arc that was forced into him by that "terrible" editor !) is not enough to get a chance ? How many years should have been necessary to adress Flash's case again ?
And, on the other hand, you have PAD, who managed to reintroduced Flash during FNSM 4 (As part of The Other, WHICH WAS FORCED TO HIM BY JMS AND THE EDITORS !), and who used him for 12 issues out of the 21 isues he wrote on FNSM ! (FNSM 6, 11 to 13, 15 to 22) And see how much he did using the character ! And PAD, just like Jenkins, was thrown out of FNSM, but contrary to him he gave us a beginning, a middle and an end with his plots.
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> Yeah, it's my opinion that when you cripple a character like Flash (or any other main characters) and that you know you'll have your title cancelled (and even if it's not the case, not adressing it for a whole year is already bad in itself ...), that adressing it should prevail over the rest instead of writting stories you want to write. That is called respect to the readers.
> And I think I'm not alone to think that way.
No, I'm saying it's your opinion that the way he was dealing with it was bad.
> C'mon, are you serious ? 11 issues (even giving you credit for the 6 part arc that was forced into him by that "terrible" editor !) is not enough to get a chance ? How many years should have been necessary to adress Flash's case again ?
Okay...let's see. We saw Flash during the Doc Ock arc. Jenkins didn't see fit to deal with Flash during the Lizard arc, which was three issues long. Then there was #14, which didn't even star Spider-Man (so it would make no sense to show Flash in there) and was painted, so he likely wrote that long before he wrote many of the other issues (probably around the time Spectacular Spider-Man was starting) and had a clear idea of where he was going. Then came two issues, and then there was his final issue, which...well, was his final issue. There were many more important things going on than Flash's condition. Namely, the fact that...he was putting a close to a five year run on the title.
So, not counting the remaining issues of the Doc Ock story (since we saw Flash at the beginning of that arc, I believe it was) we went through five non-consecutive issues and stories where Flash wasn't dealt with. I don't see what's wrong with that. He could have had Flash appear on every single issue that was written under his own conditions, but if it didn't feel right to him, well that's that. This goes back to what I mentioned earlier about writers going at their own pace. It was very clear that Jenkins wanted to resolve the Flash plot thread, but he was doing it like that - at his own pace, and then he had it all cut short after the title got canned. You might not think that pace was good and all that, and that's fine and your prerogative.
