Well this isn't surprising. Marvel would never have made a deal with Sony, if it didn't include Peter Parker. He IS Spider-Man to the general audience and long term fans. Sorry Ben Reily/Miles Morales/Miguel O'Hara. Your day may never come.
As to Peter being put back in HS, I'm also not surprised by this. TPTB and TPTW treat Peter Parker likes he's Peter Pan. He can never grow up. He has to remain either a teenage or young twenty something bachelor.
It's why Peter and MJ's marriage was annulled the way it was. Them simply getting a divorce would (In Quesada's mind) "age" the character. So they made a deal with Mephisto so that they're marriage (comic run from 1988-2006) never happened. All to save Aunt Mae's life. Who had been shot by Crossbones. Crossbones put a bullet in Capt America's lower neck/back during Civil War but only managed to hit Mae in the abdomen.
It's also why Aunt Mae has seemingly clung to life all this time. Despite being no spring chicken when Peter first started as Spidey (age 14). Marvel doesn't want Mae to die because it would again, "age" the character. I mean f*ck. It's not like they're are scores of story for them to milk from it. Recently they resorted to shipping Mae and J.Jonah together, in order to give Mae something to do.
JMS' run on TASM had Peter stop being a photographer and had him take a job as a professor at Empire State University. This I thought was a good choice. We know Peter struggled making money with odd jobs and his pictures of Spider-Man at the Bugle, but making Peter a science prof; this really worked for the character. And unsurprisingly, Marvel Comics undid that also and put him back at the Bugle.
*sigh*
If TASM series at Sony had continued, this would've been a great way for Peter to make money and meet MJ. She'd be his student and eventually they would fall for one another.
I expect MCU Spider-Man to retread a lot of the same ground. I know they said they wanted to focus on the pressures of being a teen superhero, but we've already seen that. I'd rather see them take Spider-Man forward and not backward.
As to Peter being put back in HS, I'm also not surprised by this. TPTB and TPTW treat Peter Parker likes he's Peter Pan. He can never grow up. He has to remain either a teenage or young twenty something bachelor.
It's why Peter and MJ's marriage was annulled the way it was. Them simply getting a divorce would (In Quesada's mind) "age" the character. So they made a deal with Mephisto so that they're marriage (comic run from 1988-2006) never happened. All to save Aunt Mae's life. Who had been shot by Crossbones. Crossbones put a bullet in Capt America's lower neck/back during Civil War but only managed to hit Mae in the abdomen.
It's also why Aunt Mae has seemingly clung to life all this time. Despite being no spring chicken when Peter first started as Spidey (age 14). Marvel doesn't want Mae to die because it would again, "age" the character. I mean f*ck. It's not like they're are scores of story for them to milk from it. Recently they resorted to shipping Mae and J.Jonah together, in order to give Mae something to do.
JMS' run on TASM had Peter stop being a photographer and had him take a job as a professor at Empire State University. This I thought was a good choice. We know Peter struggled making money with odd jobs and his pictures of Spider-Man at the Bugle, but making Peter a science prof; this really worked for the character. And unsurprisingly, Marvel Comics undid that also and put him back at the Bugle.
*sigh*
If TASM series at Sony had continued, this would've been a great way for Peter to make money and meet MJ. She'd be his student and eventually they would fall for one another.
I expect MCU Spider-Man to retread a lot of the same ground. I know they said they wanted to focus on the pressures of being a teen superhero, but we've already seen that. I'd rather see them take Spider-Man forward and not backward.
