January 20th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
The comic book world was rocked in the past couple of weeks when Marvel dissolved the Spiderman Peter Parker-Mary Jane marriage.
Titled “One More Day”, comic #545 sees Spiderman deal with a devil like villian Mephisto to save Aunt May (who was in a coma). In the deal, Mephisto wipes Peter Parker and Mary Jane’s memory, essentially making it look like their marriage never took place. So Peter Parker is now a 20 something bachelor living with his aunt (who is now alive and well). The deal with Mephisto also erased the part about Spiderman telling the whole world who he is (something Marvel shouldn’t have done that in the first place!).
Marvel comics had said they regretted writing the Spidey-MJ marriage plot. I guess the (dis)continuity of the Spiderman script is what spoils it for the fans (including me) — the writers should have thought about it more. In recent times, we’ve seen Peter Parker and MJ separating, MJ having a miscarriage and even a story line telling us that it was Peter’s clone is the one that got married. Joe Quesada, Marvel’s editor-in-chief then stepped in to say that the marriage just couldn’t continue as it was bogging Spiderman down as a superhero.
Says Quesada, “At the end of the day my job is to keep these characters fresh and ready for every fan that walks through the door … while also planning for the future and hopefully an even larger fan base.”
Bad scripts and storylines… come on guys, I think you can do better than that. It’s a fresh start but lets not screw this one up again. It would be interesting to see how they try to write MJ into Spidey’s life again. Reminds me of how DC’s Superman dying and came back to life again — pretty absurd.
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