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Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 10th 2023 at 10:58:13 AM
Amazing Spider-Man#25 has leaked in places
The kids are not MJ and Pauls', they are adopted. They know Rabin as the Scribble Man. When MJ and Paul travel back with Peter, MJ tells him she is involved with Paul and that she thought she'd never see Peter again, for her it's been five years
Again, per what Rabin said in the previews, it's becoming very clear that MJ is 'cursed' and burdened with a family through mystical means, the kids are no doubt the chains Rabin was referring to, so everything is out of MJ's hands. Much like OMD, Peter and MJ are unaware magic has played a hand in splitting them apart here, but we the readers have an insight into it. It also means the kids can be written out very, very quickly
Edited by Zarius on May 6th 2023 at 11:03:58 AM
I agree.
Though if Paul dies like so many people want, who's going to take care of them.
One Strip! One Strip!I mean, the Parkers have already had one child murdered at birth and another Cessation of Existence'd. I recently discovered to my horror that Ghost Rider and his former wife had twins... and they were Stuffed into the Fridge offscreen. Strewth! I'm honestly kind of surprised Tigra's son with the Skrull hasn't been killed or forgotten.
Edited by HamburgerTime on May 7th 2023 at 9:41:31 AM
Sounds like when Aquaman's toddler son was murdered.
What is it with comic book companies and killing children?
The Protomen enhanced my life.Children make the sliding timescale awkward
Which is why they’re always being killed off or sent into the future to age up
The latter happens so much. Like dear god, so many children sent back to the future.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI think the rule of thumb is that the start of the marvel universe - FF 1 - is always about fifteen years ago.
Forever liveblogging the Avengers

Does Mary-Jane and Black Cat have a trope page? I'd like to make one if not.