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The Superior Spider-Man: Five Reasons It Won’t Last

While there are plenty of fans up in arms about the developments in today’s issue of The Amazing […]

While there are plenty of fans up in arms about the developments in today’s issue of The Amazing Spider-Man, it’s pretty clear to anybody who’s been paying attention to comics for the last twenty or so years that it’s not a story that’s built to last.Whether it’s the death of Superman, the “permanent paralysis suffered by Batman following his first major fight with Bane, Hal Jordan’s madness or the replacement of Peter Parker with a clone who was, apparently, the real Peter all along, virtually every time a major superhero character has been replaced in one of these big “world-changing” stories, he was back in his cape and tights not too long after.And then, of course, there’s Steve Rogers, the hero whose death probably inspired this change considering how well it did for Marvel.What are some of the clues we have that this particular story isn’t a long-term change?

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