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Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 10th 2023 at 10:58:13 AM
Miles should be like 16. Gwen has a Vague Age though, she's in college and her dad was ragging on her to pick a major.
Miles was 12 when he started then a 2 year time skip after his mom died, then 8 months, and 8 more months. so 15-16 yeah
For what it's worth, I'm thoroughly convinced it's a fakeout cover.
I do find it funny though there are people appalled at the apparent age gap but a lot of the same people wanted to ship Spider-Gwen with Peter, and those two have like a 10+ year age gap. 
Love is Love is Love
If I groan and roll my eyes, it is sexist/racist?
My various fanfics.
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Depends if you accuse the cover of pandering to them SJ Dubyas.
Love is Love is Love
Oh, no. It just comes across as creatively bereft.
My various fanfics.
Takat Empress
Triggered! ;P
edited 11th Jul '16 3:31:33 PM by Mizerous
Mileena Madness
I actually think the age gap between Miles and Gwen is worse because one of them should be above age and the other... not.
Age gaps become less noticeable the older couples get. And I don't actually think Peter necessarily has the bigger age gap, depending on where in the vague age range everyone lies. How old is Peter?
Peter is like 28-29.
I'm still banking on Bendis just trolling with that cover.
The Head of the Hydra
Who's Mattie Franklin?
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
Jameson's niece. She was a Spider-Woman in the 90's. Slott ended up fridging her during the Grim Hunt storyline.
Takat Empress
Imagine a Gwen/Miles kid becoming a Spider-Person.
Mileena Madness
I think that Slott had very little involvement with Grim Hunt. That was mostly Waid/Kelly/Van Lente.
Yeah, they said the other Spider-Books would be tying into Dead No More/Clone Conspiracy, so Mattie coming back fits the bill. Web Warriors is also supposed to tie in (maybe Mayday's dad comes back?)
Joe Kelly wrote the issue where Mattie was killed off. Slott wasn't involved in Grim Hunt, unless you count The Gauntlet as part of it (he did the Mysterio story).
It was really Marvel editorial that killed her to make way for Quesada's pet character Anya Corazon as Spider-Girl(who is a derivative of Matte). Who's series ironically flopped harder than Mattie's and has been kicked out of the 616 to make way for Cindy. Talk about karma.
But yeah, Grim Hunt was Quesada's idea according to an IGN interview and apparently the purpose of that story was to cut down on Spider-women. Which is pretty sexist considering there were four Spider-men(Peter, Kaine, Flash, and Ricochet) at the time. After Quesada left as EIC, editors and writers barely gave a crap about Anya.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to Silk #13. Mattie and Cindy have many parallels. A Spider-woman with an attraction to Peter, Jessica Drew as a mentor, and a relationship with Jameson. Cindy is successful version of Mattie and you can use that to create the perfect foil.
Several months ago requested the writer of Silk on twitter to mention Mattie. Though the recent reprint of Alias and is what inspired Silk #13.
edited 12th Jul '16 7:09:40 AM by ManOfSin
Civil War 2 Spider-Man tie-in continues to be really good. Clayton's grief over his past is subtle and cool. Even his parents are realistically abusive about it(though really Parker could have helped him move out). This is the second time they drew an image of Green Goblin behind Harry, hmm... are they hyping him up? That'd be awesome.
"#Gage The Slott" should be a hashtag or something. Gage should take over Spider-Man instead of Slott.
edited 13th Jul '16 11:16:20 AM by Luminosity
Takat Empress
Disappointed with Silk 13 Cindy really didn't get anywhere with Felicia even with begging her she will testify for her court trial. At least Felicia gets teleportation powers right?
Mileena Madness
vicarious
Read the Renew Your Vows book. Dunno what crossover crisis clusterfuck that was a part of but
It's nice to see a Parker family. Was there one with Gwen that wasn't House of M if that even still exists?
Mattie's death was super-lame. Killed to revive a dull '90s Xtreem villain who was himself almost immediately re-killed.
@Mizerous so what happens with Felicia now? and teleportation?
She continues to be a supervillain crime boss. That's pretty much it. Probably unless and until Slott either decides to change her or leaves ASM.
You know, with all the bad guys getting their own books (Thanos, Kingpin, Bullseye), I wonder if Black Cat will ever get her own book? That would be interesting.
Not the way she's currently written right now.
There's been so many time skips and shit that I'm unsure how old anyone is now.