Well going on from The Annihilation mini he had and then the main book onward, i feel certain aspects of his character have progressed, like he has become more battle savy and his leadership. But its his constent lack of not listening to the worldminds info, despite all the previous times of ignoring the worldminds words which got him into shit through not paying attention.
This was maddeningly frustrating, although I don't know if it's a regression as much as it's a point of stagnation. One would think that he would've have shown some maturity in that regard, especially after the WM switched to the Ko-Rel persona.
Another thing that was frustrating was that it took until the last couple of issues of TI for Richard to assert his mastery of the Nova Force. And when he finally took back the whole power, the best thing that he did was oneshot the Revengers. Historically the Nova Force was seen as an awesome power that was one of the primal forces of the universe and the full extent of it was enough to drive people insane. Giffen tapped into that a little bit, but DnA seemed to write their character's with fairly conservative power levels.
What I've read of Spidey has been limited to the cliched version in the Bendis books, so it may not be entirely representative of what's going on in his main books.
Last edited by dmills on Nov 21st, 2010 at 07:11 PM