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Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 10th 2023 at 10:58:13 AM
Jordan D White presents a special April Fools edition of X-Men Monday...rechristened Venom Monday
We got trade info
for Spider-Boy issues 9 to 12:
Bailey Briggs, the one and only Spider-Boy, is trapped in the Web of Life and Destiny! Tumbling through the Multiverse! And he’s about to meet at least one Spider you’ve seen before — but NEVER on these mighty Marvel pages! Maybe someone out there in the Spider-Verse will find a way to get his life back.
Edited by Zarius on Apr 2nd 2024 at 7:39:59 AM
God, as a college student struggling with certain classes thanks to COVID's lasting impact, Spider-Man failing due to absences AFTER getting a third chance because of a plagiarism scandal just sickens me.
He's become something of an anti-role model to young readers like me unironically.
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"The idea that Peter is an "everyman" anymore is laughable in and of itself. You could've said he was that right up until OMD, but now? What "everyman" can go from photographer to teacher to tech mogul to jobless college dropout? What "everyman" can't hold down a job or social group because he has to constantly dress as an arachnid and beat up criminals? What "everyman" makes deals with demons to keep his decrepit corpse of an aunt on life support?
What's especially hilarious is that part of the justification given for Spider-Editorial thinking MJ isn't good for Peter is that a normal guy dating a supermodel is "unrealistic", yet the instant OMD was over they basically made him a harem anime protag with a new banging hot girlfriend every week. So him dating and marrying a supermodel isn't relatable but him dating NUMEROUS supermodels is perfectly reasonable?
Peter's luck on the romance side has always been like that.
Peter was an everyman in the sense that, compared to other heroes, he had to actually worry about his social life, school and the bills, even as he swings around in red and blues. Of course, lately they make it seem like they think that means "he is a complete screw up", but...
Wake me up at your own risk.Do you think it would help if they decided to stop doing Yank the Dog's Chain with MJ and just have her be the amicable ex, with Felicia or whoever as Peter’s “main” love interest? Or would that just make it worse?
I recall there was a brief but vocal Peter/Carol Danvers fandom once upon a time, incidentally.
I don't think it will matter who Peter is/isn't with.. it'll still be the same dead end. Like someone said when BND first started..."why should we care who Peter dates? It won't go anywhere anyway." The Breevoort Manifesto has locked Peter in a Goundhog Day-like temporal loop of failure that he can never escape.
Edited by knightstorm on Apr 2nd 2024 at 9:55:11 AM
MJ and Peter are the power couple in every AU book Marvel decide to publish. With loads of kids. Wells has said the ideal last Spidey story for him is Peter and MJ married. Marvel know nobody is ever going to measure up to her, and every attempt to distance her from Peter or replace her ends in indifference and disaster because the fans will never shut up or let go of the marriage
The dissolution of the marriage was not dealt with amicably or in a realistic manner, it was stolen from them and reality was warped. 616 in itself is just another alternate universe nowadays, and you can't ever take anything that happens in it at face value because the characters allowed a mystical being to reshape things. Magic can be blamed for every out of character action, and whenever they do overcome it and get together, the writers have to usually use magic AGAIN to justify splitting the pair.
Edited by Zarius on Apr 2nd 2024 at 9:58:02 AM
Basically what I was trying to gauge with my question there is do the fans see the lack of MJ specifically as the bigger issue, or is it the constant teases and resets to his life in general and love life in particular? Like, if they said they were officially going to stop doing that but Peter’s new steady love interest was someone else, would that be seen as a step forward or step back?
People won't be interested in any other love interest. Any new woman would be in MJ's shadow...and Marvel made it clear that Peter must always be "a young single loser". If Marvel wanted a long term relationship for Peter...they'd just put he and MJ(who is already popular) back together. At this point...they should just avoid romance in the book altogether...and just focus purely on the superheroics...and let Peter actually win a fight with a villain again,maybe? Anything involving Peter's personal life is better just avoided until the current editorial is gone.
Edited by knightstorm on Apr 2nd 2024 at 10:34:48 AM
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Possibly? If they committed to it, eventually there'd be a generation of fans who grew up on the new ship.
I don't think any of Peter's new love interests have lasted a year, though. There's not even enough for fans to get attached to.
Like, X-Men has a lot of characters go through a lot of different relationships, and a lot of them last a decent amount of time. Once OMD happened, Peter doesn't do that at all.
Edited by Joshbones on Apr 2nd 2024 at 10:36:35 AM

I'm assuming, New York being a Democratic state, they have government contracts that don't cheap out.
Also, probably employ dirty dirty mutant labor.
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