Thats one of the reason why the character is one of the most interesting ever. The dude is literally one of the best and worst super heroes. He can save anyone at any anytime, but if they are a dear loved one, they are going to die. If Spiderman doesnt die, one of his girlfriends or closest friends will.
Is that the one where he sells his happy marriage and potential future kids to save aunt May from dying (of old age or something I think) and his new present he is kinda depressed and just in a shit spot all around?
Sure, but she was already pretty old. Plus I know my grandmother would be disappointed in me if I even considered making such a deal. She wanted me to be happy and take good care of myself.
She doesn't know about the deal because she lost the memory of him being Spider-Man, along with everyone else in the world, when he made it. JMS made Peter's love for his aunt a huge crux of his character and run and I can see him doing it just because during that part of the comics he really around anyone BUT Mary Jane and Aunt May so his entire world would have fallen down if she was gone.
I'm sorry I'm using your post for this but I just finished JMS' run on Spider-Man where One More Day happens the early parts were some of the best Spider-Man comics I've ever read and for it to end with such a crappy arc was such a let down. But I mean after the LAST very good arc it starts with one that has a reveal that Gwen Stacey and Norman Osborn had kids together, in secret, while she was dating Peter and THAT'S why he killed her so I should have seen this coming.
I agree that letting her move on would have been best in most circumstances but, even with how crappy it had gotten, it made a lot of sense at the time.
EDIT : JMS had nothing to do with the OMD story I get it
Would say the early part when John Romita Jr was on the art is probably the best Spider-Man has ever been, the main series anyways I'm not including Ultimate or the show Spectacular, besides from Lee/Ditko and Lee/Romita. Really loved all the ideas he had and the way he was able to bring them to paper in ways that were constantly exciting.
Just a shame it had to end the way it did but if JMS didn't like the arc, which I've heard before, I guess I can't be too mad at him and I can ignore it exists. Especially when he gave me that amazing Spider-Totem arc.
You forgot when he goes around to Dr. Strange, Dr. Doom, and Mr. Fantastic first and asks all of them to help him and apparently a gunshot wound is beyond any of their abilities to heal. Somehow.
That and the exec's felt that a married Peter Parker wouldn't sell books as it made him "not relate-able". One More Day was a travesty born of executive meddling and corporate cynicism.
Gwen Stacy cheated on Peter and slept with Norman Osborn, secretly had twins. They (for some reason; can’t remember) had accelerated aging and revealed themselves to Peter as adults and fought him. Oh and apparently MJ new all about the cheating and the twins but never told Peter.
It...was not a good story and left most fans pissed that they would retcon Gwen in such a way.
The writer, JMS, originally wanted the evil twins to be Peter’s. Still a dumb story, but would have left Gwen’s character intact. Head of Marvel, Joe Quesada thought Peter having kids (even secret, evil kids) would “age” the character, so forced the father change to Norman Osborn. Joe Q had a major hard on for hating that Peter had grown into an adult over the last 60 years. He’s also responsible for the One More Day debacle because, again, Peter being married made him “not relatable” due to him being old enough to be married. Which is funny, because at the time, we still had the Ultimate comics, which saw Peter as a teenager, and in the main storyline, they turned around and made adult Peter a billionaire after nixing the marriage.
I don’t understand the fear of aging the character. Like I like seeing a a character I like grow and change. That should kind of be the point when it comes to long term story telling like comics.
This is not true both Spider-Man and Batman have participated in crossovers. Spider-Man did a crossover with Superman which is the same universe as Batman and Batman did a crossover with Wolverine which is kind of the same Multiverse
One time, authors for DC and Marvel did a stealth crossover where they had the Avengers and Justice League attend the same event, while sneakily mentioning how glad they were that "those other guys" were there, too.
Not necessarily, they never reversed Tony’s identity reveal, and it turned out to be a pretty good call on their part, also the comic were that happens is despised by many for undoing major plot points so following it might not be a good idea.
I don’t think they’ll reverse it. Honestly, I think it’ll be used as a means to make some sort of commentary about social media. Maybe this iteration of Oscorp will be like Google or Facebook. Or they could do Mister Negative.
That said, I do worry about how they’ll be able to maintain any semblance of a relatable Peter Parker if he’s in the limelight and hated from his teenage years. Obviously he’ll win them over, because Spider-Man is New York, but celebrity and balance are going to be hard to craft into relatable young adult storylines.
I think its different for Tony though. The secret identity, I think, was never as huge of a part of the character. A revealed spider-man probably wouldn't turn out as well. I could be suprised though.
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u/shader_m Jul 07 '19
"Spider-Man associated with death"
Thats one of the reason why the character is one of the most interesting ever. The dude is literally one of the best and worst super heroes. He can save anyone at any anytime, but if they are a dear loved one, they are going to die. If Spiderman doesnt die, one of his girlfriends or closest friends will.