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Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 10th 2023 at 10:58:13 AM
I'm surprised they haven't tried pulling off a sacred timeline bit but that would invalidate the MCU.
I do recall Spider-Verse making it a point that 616 Peter is the Peter all Peter Parker Spider-people are based on.
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"It was 616 Jackal, or one of his many clones. He actually killed Earth-65 Miles Warren, because Warren-65 thought it was creepy how Jackal was lusting after a teenager.
Twice and neither were by choice.
Edited by Cortez on Jun 20th 2024 at 9:56:11 AM
Rumours are circulating, allegedly from a retailer over on a well known comic book forum, that ASM might end up with a few guest writers and a bridging arc again (like there was with Beyond after Spencer) because the writer Marvel have locked in has yet to finish his run on another book, and apparently you can't do that and ASM at the same time.
It's all very salt shaker, we'll have to wait and see.
I wonder who they got this time?
There are many writers who've decided to nope out due to the tightness of the current status quo.
We've discussed that it needs to be someone who tows the party line but who's willing to do that, and still manage to write the kind of stories they want?
Also, found this video on Youtube of Spidey being blamed for the stupidity of others:
Anyone know what issue this is? I'm kinda curious now.
One Strip! One Strip!Spidey being so popular is both a blessing and a curse, but lately the popular image is him as a mentor to Miles.
The Protomen enhanced my life.Best case scenario is probably Ewing IMO. He’s been working his way through Marvel’s titles sowing his cosmic Myth Arc for a while now, but he hasn’t touched Spidey lore yet, the totems and Master Weaver and such. At least he’d probably focus on that rather than making Peter miserable.
It's all very salt shaker, we'll have to wait and see.
Fascinating... One of my anti-OMD guys on Twitter has noticed
that Jed MacKay's Vengeance of the Moon Knight and Doctor Strange plus Al Ewing's Venom are close to packing it up.
I'm probably giving my copium too much attention again, but I recall that Nick Lowe was reminiscing about ASM stuff he edited on. It's probably a dead end, but he's never done it before and it almost seems like something one would do if they got marching orders to go out the door...
Oh god, I f*cking wish. I gave up on the notion when someone pointed out how Ewing doesn't seem to have strong feelings for Spider-Man, but if his Venom books are wrapping up... (But wasn't there a rumor about Ewing packing up for the Distinct Competition?)
In any case, it's as Zarius says, this is all very salt shaker-y...
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Jun 21st 2024 at 3:22:07 PM
I've also heard talk that Ewing is heading over to DC soonish. Whether that means he's leaving Marvel entirely or just going to be doing books at both companies remains to be seen, though I'd imagine it's probably the latter, as Immortal Thor has only just really begun and Ewing is pretty clearly focusing a lot of attention on that, plus saying he wants it to run til at least issue 50 like Immortal Hulk did, maybe beyond that.
An Ultimate Universe is a lot less appealing for DC comics. They've undone Crisis on Infinite Earths five times already. Why not just go back to one of those many, many discarded "universes", "multiverses" at this point and make the current setting the "Ultimate One"? Back to something resembling that old Earth Two-Earth One setup only the Earth Two and Earth Ones both have their own dedicated set of published books...
Oh wait, Vertigo basically was DC's Ultimate Universe on top of all that. Why not just bring that back and or push it harder?
I wouldn't mind seeing Marvel's own "Vertigo" get seriously invested in rather than DC going "Ultimate".
Edited by IndirectActiveTransport on Jun 22nd 2024 at 12:02:30 PM
Buldogue's lawyerBecause Vertigo is nothing like the Ultimate Universe.
And bringing back old universes wouldn't work either. The point of the Absolute/Ultimate setting is to start fresh with new intereprations of the characters.
Bringing back old universes with a lot of continuity is literally the exact opposite of the entire purpose of the concept.
Edited by slimcoder on Jun 22nd 2024 at 12:19:29 PM
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."

During King in Black, Spider-Gwen tried to "nope" her way out of the entire invasion by returning to her own dimension. It failed and the Mary Jane of her universe got pulled into 616.
Knull took notice of how unique both these 2 were and for a laugh singled out Mary Jane, bonded her to a symbiote, and dubbed her "Carnage" in a twisted display of respect for Cletus freeing him.
He may or may not have implanted some of the Carnage symbiote's bloodlust into the symbiote bonded to Mary Jane too, further copying him beyond just the name.
But yeah Gwen manages to get the symbiote off of Mary Jane and send her back to their home universe, but unfortunately didn't get all of it. Sometime later the Jackal of their universe captured Mary Jane and managed to reactivate the Carnage clone leftovers and she started rampaging again. Gwen managed to calm M Jarnage down, and now she has been trying to tame the symbiote ever since.
But that last part happened right before Gwen decided to migrate to 616 permanently so we don't know how MJ is doing.
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