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Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 10th 2023 at 10:58:13 AM
Geez, Wells apparently could only manage 19 pages of story content this week for ASM according to people who have the book. There's some Peter and MJ interaction, and the lawyer Michelle shows up for a couple of pages, gets mad at Peter, and storms off again...erm, OK?
Over in Jackpot and BC Peter only gets one mention in MJ's thoughts, and we do get to see Felicia's new girlfriend.
Yes, the very Dikto-Peter has its downsides.
Modern geeks realize they don't have to be isolated and uncool.
Which is why G Arfield is the best Spider-Man!
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Mar 26th 2024 at 11:05:50 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.![]()
One thing she did find interesting was that Peter having to go through financial troubles and trying to find a job.
But otherwise, she did not vibe with the show, and just prefers Miles. So she had more fun playing the Miles Morales Spider-Man game.
Like, she actually prefers Miles having friends who knows what he's doing, like Ganke.
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"
Specifically, Harry interfaces with and overrides Peter's costume to unmask him. Implying that either Tony chose Harry as another hero and equipped him with the same tech, or that Harry has Stark tech from the days when Howard Stark was working with the Maker.
Two scenarios that could have very different outcomes.
More on how Peter and MJ interact in Amazing this week
They fight crime and tend to Aunt Anna. No appearance or mention of Paul (he's in the MJ/BC mini though), Peter and MJ discuss life on a rooftop and Peter says it wasn't easy to move on from her. MJ reveals it took her a long time to do the same. Lots of sexual tension between them. At Aunt Anna's house they compliment their teamwork together, Peter says there's good reason to do it again, but MJ reckons the way they are right now, it probably isn't a good idea, indicating they're still in love
It’s funny how Superior basically gave Otto the gimmick of mind swapping and then turning it into a joke.
So much for trying to give him a major villain scheme to overshadow Green Goblin.
Edited by RedHunter543 on Mar 28th 2024 at 12:29:48 AM
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"Like even given Slott’s remarks about wanting to make Otto a worse villain than Norman, he did end the first Superior by having Otto completely give up and put Peter back in the cockpit when faced with a Green Goblin on a roll
Forever liveblogging the AvengersMaybe it's just Slott's love of Otto in general, but I feel like deep down Slott really wishes he could've somehow had Otto be Spider-Man permanently. Or that he could write Peter the way he writes Otto, namely as more like Pre-OMD-Flanderization Peter where he could be and often was a major Jerkass who treated the people in his life terribly but still ultimately tried to do the right thing despite himself and managed to carve out a real family through character development.
I honestly doubt it
His original plan was for Superior to be shorter but Marvel asked him to make it longer so the triumphant return of Peter would coincide with, I think, a movie coming out
Forever liveblogging the AvengersSome meddling actually worked in reader's favor, huh? That era hit Arc Fatigue, and dunno how much worse it would have been if Slott's plans went through.
Wake me up at your own risk.Man, with all the different adaptations, lots of new fans are going to be in for a shock looking at the older stuff.
I can easily see how a kid whose first contact with Spider-Man have been Miles in Spider-verse, or even MCU Peter, not jiving with that show.
I once showed it to a bunch of relatives, those whose first contact with Spider-Man had been the Raimy movie (and the one kids who knew the comics) generally liked it more than the rest.
Interestingly the one comic-saavy kid explained the difference between OG 616 Gwen, post flanderisation OG 616 Gwen, Spider Man 3 Gwen, Spider Gwen, and Spider-verse Spider Gwen. She was the one character who confused them the most since the different version have so little to do with each other.
Gwen is pretty much the Anthropomorphic Personification of characters whose history can be summed up as "writers throwing shit at the wall to find out what sticks because the original version sucked so bad".

Yeah, she really did not care for Peter's personality, the romance with Liz Allen, calling it cringe, and really didn't like nerdy Gwen.
Man, with all the different adaptations, lots of new fans are going to be in for a shock looking at the older stuff.
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"