Miles entire origin hinges on Peter Parker, so they'd have to make quite a few changes to make it really fresh in the way you're speaking of, him being used before Peter,
I said this to someone else already but it can easily be rewritten in a way Parker has no bearing on his origin. Since for the most part the meat and potatoes of Miles origin has nothing to do with Peter Parker. He gets his powers while Peter is still alive. He was already getting use to them and using them. It's Pete's death that has him decide to pursue it but that can be changed to something else spurring him on like his criminal uncle or Venom hunting him down or some interaction with Bombshell.
which could very well just lead to it hitting the same chords that Peter's origin did.
There's no denying that when looking at the bare bones of it, both Peter and Miles are HSers that get super powers and become superheroes. So obviously those same chords would be hit. Trying to fight crime and finish homework while hiding it from your parents and the social drama of being a teenager.
But that's not a knock against Miles. If it is, it'd be a knock against every teenage superhero. That's just the way it is.
Again, common sense should tell you that the fans of a comic book character are going to see the comic book character on film.
You'd have to show these ppl are going there for Peter Parker specifically and not Spider-Man.
That's another point that kinda connects to my ASM argument. It's a Spider-Man movie. Spidey fans are coming out regardless.
Your argument can't be so simple to say that ASM sells 100k and Miles Spidey book sells 50k therefore A movie with Peter is guaranteed to have 50k more ticket sales
C'mon now. That's flawed reasoning while ignoring so many other things.
Based on what?
Sales were high compared to what though? Because it all depends on what you're using to classify something as having high sales. The sales of Miles Morales comic is generally high, but there are comics that sell more than it, and it in turn has dropped by thousands before, as has pretty much any comic ever.
I'm not comparing ASM sales to anything. High sales as in consistently a top seller, among the best. If you want to put #s on it or go by ranking I don't think it'd matter.
Comic book sales dropping is nothing I ever argued against. A comic that sells the most would naturally drop in sales from issue #1 to #2.
I'm not interested in arguing if sales drop or not. Never was my argument.
The first issue of Superior Spider-Man sold 118,000 + copies. The second then sold 112,000 +, the third 101,000 +, the fourth 95,000 +, the fifth 94,000 +, etc. Just looking at January 2012, ASM sold 57,000 +. Then you have January 2015, ASM sold 110,000 +. Looking at the sales history, i'd say its all across the board, with sales rising and falling based on what's happening in the comic at the time. So again, what do you classify as selling well?
If you're gonna compare Superior you should do it anually to ASM either the volume after or before.
Because while a lot of people did indeed hate Ock, a lot of people also liked him, as evidenced by the sales not being the worst in the comics history.
To me that goes against your hypothetical argument.
You're the one that said if fans didn't like it, sales would tank. What do you classify as tanking? Not selling the same amount as it did that time last year? Less than 50k? 20k? 2k?
Fans definitely didn't like SSM. You can assume they stopped buying after #1 if you want. All that means is the story brought in more fans. That kinda just shows what I'm talking about who is under Spidey's mask in ASM if you want to talk about that book selling more than Miles book. Hypothetically speaking, if a volume ASM came out and it was revealed it was Miles under Spidey's mask it'd maintain ASM #s on average.
I'm not contradicting myself at all. You're taking "in general" and assuming it means the same as selling "well". As I asked previously, what are you counting as selling well? Because i'm saying that if Ock had been universally hated we would've seen a large drop in terms of sales, like from 110,000 to 50,000. That wasn't the case.
This is a hypothetical argument you can not prove.
What is universally hated? People seem to universally hate the Clone Saga. That sold like crazy. So either the term universally hated doesn't really mean anything and ASM will sell well
I mean sell well as in it will generally rank among the top on average and boost in sales depending on story. So if ASM's base is something like 80k, it'll stay around there and go up depending on the next event.
You can use any comic you want lol it honestly doesn't matter because no matter the comic the sales are going to rise and fall.
Rising and falling between 15k and 30k is completely different
There have been times where freaking Catwoman and Suicide Squad have outsold ASM.
I'm sorry but issue #1s and a bunch of variant covers really shouldn't factor in to this discussion. Pretty dishonest if we're being serious.
ASM on issue #566 shouldn't be compared to SS#1 that has 8 variant covers or any other incentive.
All I said originally was that Peter's comic outsells Miles consistently, speaking to greater popularity of one character over the other. You then chose to say that that doesn't necessarily mean anything, as a comic like ASM will always sell well, regardless of who is in it. I'm then saying that that's not the case, as even with Peter it hasn't always sold well. If people don't like a storyline the sales will reflect it.
I know what I said. I'm standing by it.
ASM in general will always sell well. A good story (according to fans as a whole) only boosts sales. Only a truly terrible story (Peter Parker kills babies and becomes the Anti-christ) would tank sales. So with that in mind, it's no surprise that Ben Reilly in ASM still did similar huge #s as when Peter was Spidey. To go even further, SSM sold better than ASM if you compare it year by year. According to you, Doc Ock as Spidey is more popular than Peter as Spidey and Doc Ock in a SSM movie would lead to a bigger box office than previous Peter incarnations.
I'm sure if Miles would put in to ASM and Peter was given another adjective things would remain consistent for ASM.