Spiderman 700 and WTF is wrong with comics these days? (SPOILERS!!)

WARNING: There will be SPOILERS about Spiderman #700 and other most recent comics.

As you may or may not know, I am a huge Superhero comic nut. Though I am more into DC these days, I follow some Marvel titles too. Now I admit, Spiderman never was very high on my list, partially because I felt Peter Parker the teen/twen was just a tad to far away from my own age. Still, I ackowledge that Spiderman and even more his alter ego, Peter Parker, was probably one of THE most beloved personas behind the mask in all the Superhero realms, because Peter was a nice guy, struggling with his role, a sort of average Joe we normal folks could identify with. Spiderman was at least AS much interesting because of his secret identity as Peter Parker as he was as Spidey. Much unlike many other Superheroes, where people are not sooo much interested in their personal lives.

Now the bottom line is, Peter is dead. Again. Doh. I mean, he just died in a parallel universe recently, but at least that was a heroic death. He died against superior odds in a very heroic way. Here, in Spiderman #700 he just dies crappy. He dies in the sick body of his arch-enemy Doc Ock, while the mind of Doc Ock lives on now in the body of Peter Parker. And he is screwing Peters love Mary Jane to really top it all.

I found that a humiliating, disgusting and meaningless way to kill off a Superhero, and end a comic book series. Now they launch a new Spiderman series with Doc Ock in this body of Spiderman - and WHO THE FRACK wants to read that? I mean, seriously.

In the last few years I really getting sick and tired with comics. Ever since the reboot of DC, DC comics have become way more darker still. It started even with Batman and Robin, where Dick Grayson was Batman for a while. But when I SAW, visually very gross and detailled, the Joker had his FACE cut off, and now he wears it duck taped on as a MASK - and I was just having breakfast when I read it, and it took some effort to keep my sandwiches in. I though this was not entertainment of the sort I wanted anymore. I am a HUGE Batman fan, but this... this isn't cool or funny or entertaining. This is SICK. And not in the cool way AT ALL!

Sometimes I wonder what they try to accomplish with that. Sure it boosts the sales numbers. But isn't there any sense of the artistic beatuy, for storytelling, for Superhero comics INSPIRING us? Where you know, despite the suffering and tragic, in the end good wins? Where there was maybe some gruesome twist, but not these levels of gore and senseless loss? Like when they killed off Roy Harper's daughter Lian. I don't know why comics devolved like this. You know, decades ago some people complained that comics were overly violent and gross and not good for people to read. They were wrong back then, but it's like comics now BECAME that way. I don't know why anyone would want to read such crap as entertainment, and I just can assume many of these writers devolved into some sick kind of personality of degenerates, like it sometimes happens with artists.

These are directions I can't follow those comics anymore into.