I just feel it reeks more of gimmick than a bold move but, then, 30+ years of reading comics will do that. Very little surprises me these days (apart from in the indies. Chew, for example, and Saga).

I preferred Slott when he was on less editorially controlled titles, up to working on things like She-Hulk and the various GLA stuff. From Avengers:Initiative onwards he's been reeled in but, like I said, editorial controls are much stronger on stuff like Avengers and Spider-Man.

Dan Slott's She Hulk was one of my favourite titles of all time. But you are right, I guess he has been pulled back a bit on Spider-Man. He's still the best thing to happen to the title in years though.

And yes @dadioflex, we should all be careful about spoilers in these threads.

I apologise for not putting that thing about beast in a spoiler tag, tbh not quite sure how i do it so if you could tell me how i'll make sure to keep my spoilers tagged. Again apologies

Go into the advanced editor for adding a post, write your spoiler then highlight the text and click on the big "S" button (last button on the right just above the text input box...)

Thanks!