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Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 10th 2023 at 10:58:13 AM
The funny thing is if they wanted MJ to actually be separated from Peter, they should have actually put her up with someone other people like.
Have MJ and Hawkeye date for awhile.
MJ and Wolverine.
MJ and Jessica Drew.
THAT would be interesting.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Like when she migrated to the Iron Man book because Spider-Man wasn’t doing anything with her?
That’d be kind of cool. Just let her interact with different parts of the universe for a bit
Forever liveblogging the AvengersTo be sympathetic, no matter who Paul was he had a major climb to reach any kind of popularity or tolerance with an audience that is mad that the fan preferred couple keeps getting shafted
And then instead of carefully navigating around that, the book seems like it went out of its way to make those fans mad?
Edited by Bocaj on Aug 2nd 2023 at 9:54:38 AM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersYep. I doubt any character could have been liked when their very purpose is to break up the couple that readers want. They even went so far as to make Peter into a stalker...but readers saw through that ploy...and just became even angrier that characters they liked were being thrown under bus. If you have to try that hard to build up a new character...you should really ask "is this character a good idea"?
Carlie Cooper went through the exact same thing.
When you're seen only as an obstacle, it's nigh impossible to get out of that hole.
One Strip! One Strip!Readers actually like Peter and MJ together. It would be so much easier on the editorial office...and us...if they'd just accept that fact. They've been doing this for decades...and the result is always intense backlash. Peter being single is just not important...in fact most of the worst stories in the book involve breaking Peter and MJ up.
Edited by knightstorm on Aug 2nd 2023 at 7:34:41 AM
I mean they had their chance for a single, swinging Spider-Man. Twice. They had two chances. Once with Ben Reilly, once with Miles Morales. Have Peter be the older, more experienced one with a happy home life, and his "younger brother(s)" with the dating issues.
But no, at this point I think it's just a matter of pure spite and stubbornness. They don't care what the fans want, they want to fans to not only accept their stupid idea, but love it. And the more the fans don't, the more insistent they are on pushing it.
For Miles they really wanted to have their cake and eat it to.
Have a hip new, young and black Spider hero but he's NOT Peter's sidekick nor will he ever replace Pete like Wally with Barry in DC.
So Miles outside the movies and games doesn't have much to do.
Life Story showed exactly what the Miles and Peter relationship would be without the sliding timeline. Peter would be an old hero "one mission away from retirement" and Miles his young apprentice.
Because no matter how much Marvel wants to deny it. Peter is old he was a young adult in the 60s.
No amount of sliding timeline or deals with Satan will make people forget that Peter if aged normally is old enough to be Miles' grandpa
Edited by FKJ10 on Aug 3rd 2023 at 7:03:57 AM
It would as easily worked if marvel committed to taking Peter out of arrested development.
They won't so Iron Man picks up the slack being the protective mentor figure for Miles.
As the entire reason Miles is never allowed to be a sidekick is from Bendis' insistence.
Edited by FKJ10 on Aug 3rd 2023 at 7:06:16 AM

There wasn't exactly a lot of commitment to this plot, was there?
Wake me up at your own risk.