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This thread's for the Spider-Man comics and spin-offs, whether they're decades old or brand new.

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Since everyone likes talking about him. I know little about him(Ironically,I got nearly all I know about him from a Batman thread),but he's apparently important so I made this thread. Enjoy.

Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 10th 2023 at 10:58:13 AM

Spirit Pretty flower from America Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Hooked on a feeling
Pretty flower
#33601: Mar 10th 2024 at 7:32:32 PM

At this point I'm just full on accelerationist when it comes to 616 Peter. Let him become the biggest laughing stock while all other adaptations let their Peters have some kinda stable life. Let the norm be praising every other version until the Spider-Editorial gets overruled.

#IceBearForPresident
chino514 (Apprentice)
#33602: Mar 10th 2024 at 7:43:05 PM

Like that's ever going to happen with the editorial.

Edited by chino514 on Mar 11th 2024 at 5:33:04 AM

Zarius Since: Nov, 2012
#33603: Mar 11th 2024 at 9:36:19 AM

Patrick Gleason was asked about Peter and MJ over at a con this past weekend. He was very pro-relationship, saying their drama should always pull them closer and it shouldn't always be negative or tense.

He said he has a project coming this year which he will write and draw, while he couldn't sat if it was ASM or something else, his social media has pinned a tweet about how 'unbreakable' Peter and MJ are

Zarius Since: Nov, 2012
#33604: Mar 11th 2024 at 11:42:25 PM

ASM#45

Hmm, so Anna has forgotten that MJ and Peter broke up, Paul isn't even mentioned. MJ is all sad and Peter tries to change the subject by faking a stomach ache. A new Sinister Six is set up. Norman still appears friendly for now

RedHunter543 Crimson Paladin Since: Jul, 2016 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Crimson Paladin
#33605: Mar 12th 2024 at 3:27:07 AM

RE Norman.

I mean, suddenly MJ is wearing a costume and fighting crime. Just like Norman did back in the silver age.

I'm telling you, Norman and MJ have swapped bodies, soon Jackpot will be throwing people off bridges.

And as for 616 Peter. Yeah.....TBH, I've long given up hope on him since like 2009. Let every other Peter be successful. This is the fate he deserves for letting Mephisto fuck up continuity after selling MJ and his unborn daughter to him.

"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"
Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#33606: Mar 12th 2024 at 3:56:31 AM

I'm not satisfied with just leaving 616 Peter - the original, and main Spidey - a fuck-up because of executive meddling of the highest caliber.

Throwing out over forty years of storytelling over editorial's frankly stupid hang-ups about the Spider-marriage? No thnaks.

I'll continue hoping Marvel set things right, but until then, no variant is going to be enough to make up for that loss.

chino514 (Apprentice)
#33607: Mar 12th 2024 at 4:00:09 AM

[up][up]All you would need to do is infect "her" with the Goblin sins and then that might happen.

Mrph1 he/him from Mercia (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: This is not my beautiful wife!
he/him
#33608: Mar 12th 2024 at 4:05:52 AM

One day he'll get that rematch with Mephisto. Hopefully with a version of Mayday there.

And maybe Loki, in their new role as god of stories and shaper of narrative, acknowledging that they do still owe Peter a little bit of a favour. And they never liked Mephisto anyway.

Giving Peter all his memories back, Wolverine-style, would set up an arc or three as he tries to reconcile them with the timeline he's now in. Not a Reset Button, but an acknowledgement that things can be (and were once) different. Clearing the road for him to grow into that person again.

RedHunter543 Crimson Paladin Since: Jul, 2016 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Crimson Paladin
#33609: Mar 12th 2024 at 6:56:46 AM

[up][up][up] Well, RYV Spidey and MC 2 Spidey already have the exact same history as 616 Peter but without One More Day.

So yeah, not very hard for me to replace 616 Peter since he already violated his creed.

"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"
Spirit Pretty flower from America Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Hooked on a feeling
Pretty flower
#33610: Mar 12th 2024 at 7:51:24 AM

[up][up] Granted Loki already got Peter to cash in on that debt. By tricking him into it but nonetheless.

#IceBearForPresident
Mrph1 he/him from Mercia (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: This is not my beautiful wife!
he/him
#33611: Mar 12th 2024 at 8:11:32 AM

Yeah. Hence newer, nicer Loki cutting him a tiny bit of slack.

immortaleditor Since: Aug, 2023
#33612: Mar 12th 2024 at 8:46:51 AM

I feel like the very first thing that happens when Spider-Editorial changes hands will be an issue dedicated to Peter, MJ, and Mayday kicking the shit out of Mephisto for several dozen pages before Peter turns to the reader and says "WE NEVER SPEAK OF THIS AGAIN" and than everything is just back to how it was before OMD.

Joshbones Since: May, 2015
#33613: Mar 12th 2024 at 9:02:18 AM

Whenever marvel retcons a hated writing choice, they usually do it by merging the old with the new.

We just saw that in X-Men, where they didn't exactly get rid of Kurt being the son of the devil, they just made it so that Mystique and Destiny were responsible for that story even happening.

Pretending 20 years of stories didn't happen is more of a DC thing.

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#33614: Mar 12th 2024 at 9:29:17 AM

Unless you’re Peter David and decide everything between your non consecutive runs was just a dream

Edited by Bocaj on Mar 12th 2024 at 10:22:48 AM

Forever liveblogging the Avengers
lalalei2001 Since: Oct, 2009
#33615: Mar 12th 2024 at 9:34:43 AM

[up] When did that happen?

The Protomen enhanced my life.
Cortez from Parts Unknown (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Zarius Since: Nov, 2012
#33617: Mar 12th 2024 at 9:55:55 AM

[up] Yeah, Bruce Jones' run. A pity because I liked it.

He also did the same thing to a Hulk crossover he didn't write in Amazing Spider-Man.

HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#33618: Mar 12th 2024 at 10:25:57 AM

Wasn’t that framed as just Nightmare trolling Banner?

knightstorm Since: Feb, 2022
#33619: Mar 12th 2024 at 10:40:13 AM

Honestly...just ignoring the entire "BND era" wouldn't be that difficult...due to nothing of any real significance actually happening. Even what should be life changing events like Peter becoming a zillionaire ...was quickly undone and swept under the rug. All they'd really have to do is bring in some of the characters post OMD (like Silk) into the restored timeline.

immortaleditor Since: Aug, 2023
#33620: Mar 12th 2024 at 11:03:23 AM

[up]Everything Post-OMD seems almost aggressively dead-set on not having any significant long-term consequences whatsover. Dead characters come back like it's nothing, Peter's life situation always gets reset like the end of a Simpsons episode. It must be genuinely hard for younger fans to believe that this comic got famous and beloved for the sense of constant forward motion it used to have.

HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#33621: Mar 12th 2024 at 11:26:08 AM

Who came back with no explanation apart from Harry and Mysterio? And even those two were explained eventually.

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#33622: Mar 12th 2024 at 12:58:47 PM

Ned Leeds came back

There was. Sort of an explanation. It definitely seemed like it was going to lead into more than it did.

Edited by Bocaj on Mar 12th 2024 at 12:59:07 PM

Forever liveblogging the Avengers
Joshbones Since: May, 2015
#33623: Mar 12th 2024 at 12:59:23 PM

[up][up][up][up]But what about every other book in the Marvel Universe? Norman took over the government, after all.

Spidey stuff is too entrenched in the rest of the world for that to even work. Peter David couldn't retcon a few years of Hulk stories without issues.

Edited by Joshbones on Mar 12th 2024 at 12:59:39 PM

knightstorm Since: Feb, 2022
#33624: Mar 12th 2024 at 1:27:12 PM

[up]And it was also swept under the rug. Recently Norman is a "reformed" bad guy due to his sins being removed...and Peter's best pal. Nothing post OMD has had any long term repercussions. It's why I've said ignoring the entire BND era is really easy...because everything no matter how world shaking the events may be...is ignored the second the storyline is over already.

Edited by knightstorm on Mar 12th 2024 at 1:31:02 AM

Blueace Surrounded by weirdoes from The End Of the World Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Surrounded by weirdoes
#33625: Mar 12th 2024 at 6:05:14 PM

The Civil Wars and stuff immediately are things that get shoved in the "please ignore this" box, really.

OMD is one of the few, if not only, things they are stubborn about. And its nature means no one even remembers it no matter how much it looms over the whole book.

Edited by Blueace on Mar 12th 2024 at 10:09:54 AM

Wake me up at your own risk.

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