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Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 10th 2023 at 10:58:13 AM
Sorry for the rudeness.
Let's swing back on topic
Mary Jane's next appearance as Jackpot will be in February's Women of Marvel one-shot
, one of the writers confirmed for it is Gail Simone.
Speaking of the black suit, I've always wondered if there has been any adaptation of Spider-Man that has Peter independently create one without Symbiote stuff getting involved? It's not too outrageous for him to think up of a variant of his suit for late night sneaking around and to eventually get around to making one.
Even post-OMD readership want this darn thing resolved huh?
See, this is the drawback with attracting new readers with your 'revised' history, ultimately those readers will do their research and go through back issues and prior trades and learn of what is missing, and they may actually enjoy it enough to want to see it continue.
Edited by Zarius on Oct 17th 2023 at 1:30:03 AM
Cebulski is probably salty that people aren't attached to Gwen X Peter.
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"Most people under the age of 60 aren't. Even those that are do so because of reinventions of Gwen that are infinitely more interesting than her post-Ditko version (which was also very short lived).
People just like the marriage. The fact that so many adaptations of Spider-Man go the route of Peter x MJ, and those that don't rarely offer a compelling alternate romance, means that there will always be new generations of Spiderfans who wandered into the mainline comics just waiting for editorial to quit being childish and stubborn.
It’s always been the case that even people who came in after OMD or before Peter got married near-universally prefer married Peter. Any claim to the contrary is just Spider-Editorial lying to justify their position. The idea that people have ever liked Spider-Man more as a single high schooler or college student has never been supported by anything, ever, and the only possible evidence one could offer for it has so many strings attached that it defeats its own argument (e.g., Ultimate Spider-Man has been offered as evidence of people preferring teenage Peter and disliked MJ… leaving out that the reason Ultimate did so well was because it came out right after the Clone Saga, Final Chapter, AND the “MJ on a plane” arcs where Editorial nearly crashed and burned the comic trying to make Peter younger and get rid of MJ, as well as that Bendis was a supporter of the marriage and made clear constantly that he intended for Ultimate Peter and MJ to be each other’s one true love).
And it’s totally unsurprising that this is the case. The entire appeal of Spider-Man was watching him grow up and get older and develop as he did, so naturally him getting married to his true love was a perfect expression of that. Leaving that aside, most of the series’ best or at least most important stories came AFTER the marriage, or served as build-up to the marriage by developing Peter and MJ’s relationship. Most of Peter’s history had him and MJ either together or clearly built up as the OTP. There’s no way of getting around that.
And that’s without getting into how most of the Post-OMD stories have just plain SUCKED and the few actually good ones either could’ve easily functioned with (or even been improved by) Peter and MJ married or were built around trying to get them back together.
I’ll never get over Joe Quesada proudly declaring that the reason they didn’t just have Peter and MJ divorce or something was because they saw him being divorced as making him “too old” and was inappropriate for the kiddies… but making deals with Satan is fine. Not to mention OMD preceded Brand New Day which was largely made up of some of the darkest, most graphic, most adult storylines Spider-Man has ever done, like Grim Hunt and Shed. Really shows how screwed up the folks in Spider-Editorial are.
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Understandable, Shed is gnarly and one of the pictures of everything wrong with OMD/BND. To say you’re going back to some upbeat, lighthearted era of Spider-Man and then one of the first big things you do is Lizard eating a child alive on-panel speaks to the insanity going on in that office.
Yeah, their priorities have always been bizarre like that. Peter can encounter constant graphic violence and sex, but the second he commits to a serious relationship or anything like that suddenly its made the character too mature.
Edited by immortaleditor on Oct 17th 2023 at 8:54:06 AM
Back in the 80s we almost got Spider-Man: The Gilded Cage, a canceled mid-80s graphic novel that had Spider-Man get mowed down by a machine gun and be nursed back to health by Carla DelVeccio, a mob boss's wife, and eventually romance her. Jim Shooter approved the story but the artist team was delayed so much that by the time they got to work on it, the editor had changed to Tom DeFalco, who killed the story. What remains of the story can be found as a rough draft
, a Cracked article
with some pages colored in, and a summary
with some black-and-white pencils.

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