Comic fans fume as Marvel erases Spidey-MJ marriageThose who know Spider-Man only from Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst in the movies might be surprised to learn that in the comic book, the web-spinning hero has been married for almost 21 years.
That's why the comic world is in an uproar over Marvel Comics' decision to undo the marriage of Peter Parker and red-haired bombshell Mary Jane Watson, reversing two decades of storytelling.
In Amazing Spider-Man #545 last week, Peter and Mary Jane make a tearful deal with the devil-like character Mephisto: In exchange for saving Aunt May's life, Mephisto erases all traces of the Peter-Mary Jane marriage from memory.
In the issue out this week, subtitled Brand New Day, Peter Parker returns to his roots — young, nerdy and single. Aunt May is alive and well and Mary Jane is again just part of the cast. The marriage never happened.
"People are very upset. They erased a lot of stuff that had been set in stone," says John Newman, manager of Ultimate Comics in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Wednesday as customers came in to buy the opening chapter of Brand New Day. To help emphasize the new start, Amazing Spider-Man will go thrice-monthly.
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Dumb. Just... dumb.
I reccomend checking out Jonah's coverage over at CBR. Particularly chapter 4, where Joe Q tries to explain this mess: http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=12688
The interview makes me want to read the story.
If the story is good- then I don't mind the results. I think the Faustian aspect to it.
Very interesting.
Now I'll have to find the issues.
I read it. It's interesting reading all the extremely negative flak. I didn't find the story to be too bad. In fact, I thought Part 3 was exceptional and one of the best comics of the year (art and story). Joe Q's art is awesome and JMS's tale is far better than the Gwen's babies storyline, the 'Born Again' waste of time, and all the Marlun (related to Marlan?) stuff.
I also checked out the Joe Q interview in CBR and a lot of what he said seemed to make sense. The marriage was a mistake to begin with. The jury is still out to see if the reboot works, but there's no doubt that things are a lot more interesting in Spider-Man than they have been in the last several years. I HATED that he was in Avengers, so it's good that he's back on his own. What remains to be seen is if on-going writers come up with interesting scenarios or simply rehash Peter's 'woe-is-me' lifestyle. I hope not, but we'll see what happens.
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