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Amazing Spider-Man #1 - Here we go again!
- Thread starter BWoog
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10 years ago, Joe Quesada, the then EIC at Marvel mandated that Spider-Man had to be unmarried again to better relate with readers. So he had Spider-Man sell his marriage and the soul of his unborn daughter to a Devil being in a convoluted attempt at saving his Aunt May from a gunshot wound. This erased decades worth of history where Peter and Mary Jane were married.
This new issue has them dating again since that insanely stupid story.
What made OMD worse was how right before it, they released a beautiful story where MJ puts herself on the line to defend Peter as her husband, cause of how strong their love was and her support of Spiderman. They immediately follow it up with "lol lets get magic divorce"
Fair enough. I wasn't reading comics that much before I graduate college the first time but the first arc I paid close attention to was Superior Spider-Man. Because Ock is my favorite Spider-Man villain. And before superior, Amazing Spider-Man ran for 700 issues so I kinda just assumed we would have a long story arc like that again.
About a decade ago Peter Parker made a deal with the devil that resulted in sacrificing his marriage to MJ to save the life of Aunt May instead of letting May die because the character is like 300 years old at this point
I'm amazed by how many people seemingly haven't read Invincible.
The Art isn't bad at all, it's just that the colouring style is way too flat to actually accentuate the art itself.
At first I was like "Fuck yes, after a decade I can go back to Spidey", but then I realized... Nick Spencer. I guess I'm still staying away.
The Art isn't bad at all, it's just that the colouring style is way too flat to actually accentuate the art itself.
At first I was like "Fuck yes, after a decade I can go back to Spidey", but then I realized... Nick Spencer. I guess I'm still staying away.
Yeah the stated reasoning for the break-up was the most obnoxious shit in the world. Pointless dismissive and shitty towards fans.
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Also fucking finally.
Anyway I fell off during Parker Industries because it wasn't as interesting as Superior and Spiderverse for me. Is the recent story arc interesting? I might jump back in if it is.
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The only person who could compare is Gwen Stacy and FUCK bringing her back, they've already done enough damage to her with Sins Past.
Time to just accept MJ once and for all. We don't need anymore Carlie Coopers.
Yeah, exactly. This issue is a perfect case study on how important colouring and inks are to American comics.
They should have used Secret Wars as the excuse to undo this, but I guess they hadn't yet seen the light.
The issue also has several references to OMD/Mephisto/hell and Peter mentions that he feels something is missing while the panel focuses on MJ's hand so the ride isn't over yet.
looks like Ryan drew this in a rush. Invincible has way more detailed art...
Good point. They did let Slott tease the two getting back together, and even date, for a few times during the early parts of his run.
Whats worse than OMD was when they tried to explain what really happened.
This looks exactly like Invincible Ottley has some of the most blatant sameface in the industry.
I expected, once Slott was gone, that we'd see a writer play up their romance again. Didn't expect it to happen one issue after Slott left. While I don't know what Spencer has planned for Peter/MJ, I do think we'll see break-ups and reconciliations between them from now until Marvel no longer exists because on-again/off-again is the name of the game with super hero romances. (But for now I am happy.)
Also, MJ really looks like Atom Eve. I know it's to be expected with Ottley on art.
Also, MJ really looks like Atom Eve. I know it's to be expected with Ottley on art.
Indeed. I don't have any issues with the art here. Still, I can accept that style won't work for everyone.
I am frankly indifferent to the writer. If people tell me he has a good couple of Spidey arcs, I might check those out in retrospect.
Well, just to confuse you more, yes Amazing Spider-Man ended at #1 when the Ock storyline took over (Dec 2012), then started at #1 again afterwards (April 2014), but THEN, after getting up to issue #18 in August 2015, it reset to #1 yet again. Then THAT numbering system got up to #32 last September, at which point they decided to go back to the original numbering, counting the previous five years as whatever number they would have been! So the September 2017 issue was #32, but the following issue for Oct 2017 was #789. No kidding. THEN, last month's issue was #801, Dan Slott's final issue. And today's issue is...
Issue 1, LGY 802
So both numbering systems are now on the cover, (LGY="legacy").
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and if you heard the behind the scenes lobbying that slott had to do to make renew your vows a thing
it'd be nice if this stuck, I'm not holding my breath given everything we know
MJ and Peter were married for a long time.
The editors at Marvel thought somehow this made Peter unrelatable, and then had him make a deal with the devil to save Aunt May's life. The devil (Mephisto) wanted something important to Peter, and decided he wanted to take his marriage away. Peter and MJ agreed, and boom, they weren't married anymore.
People were (rightfully) upset. Marvel didn't care. And it seems now they are brining Peter and MJ back together.
Never really understood why they bailed on the wedding so that he could be more relatable to readers, then years later made Spider-man super popular (in universe) and put together, leading a company and everything. Like you wanted to make him more relatable but then you have years where the major story arc reverses everything about who he originally was. Maybe just admit you got rid of the marriage so that the character doesn't have kids and age?
What really upset me at the time was that didn't they already have a back-to-basics teenaged spider-man in the Ultimate Universe?
I'll agree with most that with the way the big 2 have treated relationships recently, I don't hold out hope that anything of consequence will come of this.
What really upset me at the time was that didn't they already have a back-to-basics teenaged spider-man in the Ultimate Universe?
I'll agree with most that with the way the big 2 have treated relationships recently, I don't hold out hope that anything of consequence will come of this.
This is comics. Pretty much everyone has died before. Sometimes more than once.
Well, just to confuse you more, yes Amazing Spider-Man ended at #1 when the Ock storyline took over (Dec 2012), then started at #1 again afterwards (April 2014), but THEN, after getting up to issue #18 in August 2015, it reset to #1 yet again. Then THAT numbering system got up to #32 last September, at which point they decided to go back to the original numbering, counting the previous five years as whatever number they wold have been! So the September 2017 issue was #32, but the following issue for Oct 2017 was #789. No kidding. THEN, last month's issue was #801, Dan Slott's final issue. And today's issue is...
Issue 1, LGY 802
So both numbering systems are now on the cover, (LGY="legacy").
.... What in the collective fuck?
I don't know what kind of porno he traced to achieve this, but that looks pretty good.lol Greg Land cover
