Anonymous asked:

"The sales and the reactions of Spider-Man readers as a whole put the lie to your assertion." Keep thinking that way. It's that line of thinking that gets us movies like The Transformers. Those made TONS of money, and were total garbage. Just because people PAID for something, doesn't mean the LOVE IT. But whatever. You don't care and it shows.

brevoortformspring answered:

I’m sorry, but whether you liked or hated the TRANSFORMERS films, the fact remains that tons of people have gone out to see each one of them. And that means that a lot of other people feel differently about it than you do.

I’m sorry that I do not share your precise tastes. But that is also true of every single reader who comes here—all of whom I care about equally.

If you don’t like Dan’s SPIDER-MAN work, then by all means stop reading it.

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­­­Because people can’t buy things and realise they don’t like it afterwards thus meaning that pointing to the sales and saying it means they do like it is actually a shaky statement.

And it’s not like personal tastes and objective quality are separate things and Transformers appealing to the lowest common denominator doesn’t make it a good movie.

And it’s not like the majority of the comic book industry these days is driven by collectors and an addict mentality to the point where simply having ‘the Amazing Spider-Man’ on a title + some variants + a sexy concept for a story guarantees a certain number of sales regardless of how good or bad any given issue might be.

The concept that a book with high sales is good or that there aren’t major flaws is narrowminded and proves jackshit.