Spider-Man: Married or Not?

[Captain Craig]

Slighty related, even though I don't buy Spider-books anymore, MJ will be returning to ASM in #601 for the 3-part "Red-headed Stranger" storyline, and I think that the cover to ASM 601 is the best-ever depiction of M.J. ever. I think it's the freckles that do it...

That is a great cover. So she has a giant photo of her and Peter on her loft wall? I assume if they are devoting 3 issues to MJ then they are finally going to reveal the who/what/when/where and how's of why they didn't make it to the alter in this rectconned Spiderman world of BND.

 

[crookeddy]

Well, at the end of OMD, MJ whispers something to Mephisto which makes him agree to the deal. That seems like something that can be used as a way out, and to restore things. She might have had a plan.

 

[Forbin]

I hate to go back to that 616 thing, but I'm still curious. 40 years of collecting Marvel and I've never heard the term. Y'all have told me WHAT it is, but I still want to know what the number 616 signifies. Why that number?

 

[The Mirrorball Man]

I hate to go back to that 616 thing, but I'm still curious. 40 years of collecting Marvel and I've never heard the term. Y'all have told me WHAT it is, but I still want to know what the number 616 signifies. Why that number?

Alan Moore came up with that number, and he knows stuff.

 

[blockaderunner]

And the whole Osborn thing really irks me, he's gotten way too powerful and has been sort of no longer a Spider-Man villan but a MU villan.

It looks like they are trying to make him the Marvel equivalent to the post-Crisis Lex Luthor. But he's not like that. Lex is cold, calculating, and (in his own twisted way), logical. Osborne is street rat crazy. This was a guy who would don a goblin mask and fling pumpkin bombs at the drop of a hat. The calculating executive angle only goes so far with Osborne. But I wouldn't be surprised to see a President Osborne storyline in 2012. I wonder if Joey Q reads these threads?

 

[Gojirob]

I hate to go back to that 616 thing, but I'm still curious. 40 years of collecting Marvel and I've never heard the term. Y'all have told me WHAT it is, but I still want to know what the number 616 signifies. Why that number?

Alan Moore came up with that number, and he knows stuff.

I like to think part of it came from 'you're only 50 realities away from someplace really bad', but it seems more like to Moore and those that took up the numbering, its a way of saying, 'The Earth you're reading about is unique and special to its inhabitants, but to the multiverse, its just a number, not high nor low'. Over here, you have an Earth where we're all mindless cattle-prey for something Lovecraftian, and over there, you have one where Peter Parker learned at the feet of his Uncle Ben, The Golden Age Spider-Man.

 

[blockaderunner]

But now Norman is some high end baddie that runs HAMMER, has an army of super villans at his beck and call and Obama on his speed dial. (See tolja that Obama was evil LOL).

Of course, it was Bush who appointed Osborn to the position...

As for Peter and MJ, as far as I'm concerned, they will always be married, and I won't read any Spider-Man books that say otherwise.

Slighty related, even though I don't buy Spider-books anymore, MJ will be returning to ASM in #601 for the 3-part "Red-headed Stranger" storyline, and I think that the cover to ASM 601 is the best-ever depiction of M.J. ever. I think it's the freckles that do it...

Your fixating on the freckles????

 

[Nick Ryder]

Heh hot pic of MJ. I do kind of hope they end up together again... or he just gets back with Felicia. Honestly Black Cat, for a while at least, kinda reminded me more of the "old MJ" than MJ did. They wrote MJ either so worrywort, or this hot yet almost dowdy personality afflicted woman. I want the old vivacious, "You hit the jackpot tiger" MJ back. That was what made the relationship kinda fun was that she was incredibly hot and sexy and fun and he was this tortured hero.

 

[coolghoul]

But now Norman is some high end baddie that runs HAMMER, has an army of super villans at his beck and call and Obama on his speed dial. (See tolja that Obama was evil LOL).

Of course, it was Bush who appointed Osborn to the position...

As for Peter and MJ, as far as I'm concerned, they will always be married, and I won't read any Spider-Man books that say otherwise.

Slighty related, even though I don't buy Spider-books anymore, MJ will be returning to ASM in #601 for the 3-part "Red-headed Stranger" storyline, and I think that the cover to ASM 601 is the best-ever depiction of M.J. ever. I think it's the freckles that do it...

Your fixating on the freckles????

LOL.

I too confess that I was "drawn" to her curves more than anything else. *groan*

That photo/poster on the wall is interesting - is that really how they are drawing Peter? Is it supposed perhaps to be some other model that MJ posed with? I find the guy in the poster looking similar to how the Spectacular Spider-Man TV show now draws Peter Parker.

 

[Turtletrekker]

But MJ has always had curves. This is possibly the first time I've seen her drawn with freckles, and freckled-faced redheads drive me insane...

 

[Captain Craig]

Freckles is just more proof that this BND-verse is a separate reality from the true 616 Spidey. ;-)

 

[Technobuilder]

I really hope the significance of the "Whisper" is revealed at some point and Marvel goes back to the way things were. (more or less)

I just don't get his character anymore, he'd made progress in his life, it wasn't perfect, but he kept moving forward...

Now what does he have except the age he already was and nothing to show for all that time spent.

No Longer a Teacher, No longer has an understanding of his Powers, No longer has the dynamic of an adult character. He's a 35 year old bum living with his Aunt.

 

[Anwar]

If they don't have MJ remember the past timeline, then that's THREE times Marvel messed up what could have been a good plot:

1) The brought back Harry, leaving us to think that the timeline had been altered all the way to when he died and maybe he's back due to Mephisto using him as a hostage (If MJ and Peter get back together, everything goes back to the old way and Harry is dead again)

2) Jackpot, having MJ as a superhero was sucha GREAT idea and then they had her be someone else entirely and klled her off.

3) MJ's whisper, they BETTER bring that up.

 

[Technobuilder]

^They killed off Jackpot?

Are you f*cking serious? That's was like the one redeeming thing I thought might of come out of the whole mess.

And I don't know about the rest of you... But I actually liked the Organic Web-Spinnerets, It always seemed more plausable... (Following the logic of Radioactive spiders of course...) that Peter got the formula for the webbing from his transformation and just utilizied Mechanical Web-Shooters to modify, concentrate, or generally manipulate his organic webbing along various other lines.

 

[Forbin]

Naw, the organic weshooters were just too disgusting, and kind of implausible to me. I mean, how can he have THAT much web fluid stored in, what, glands in his arms? Enough to shoot 100 feet several hundred times for a cross-town swing? Even when I was 20 years old I could only ejectulate a few times a day!

 

[coolghoul]

^ gross..... But did you have the proportional strength of a spider?

I am on the side of the web shooters - the organic just looks weird (I thought JMS had retconned the movie's organic web bit into the main books). It also detracts from one of the things that Peter's good at - science. It might make sense in certain incarnations (eg. 90s TV spider-man didn't seem to be much of a science-wiz) but in the comics, he has a long history of thinking and planning his way against the villain ... besides the 'never-give-up' bit.

 

[Trent Roman]

I prefer the organic webbing, myself. I'm all for Peter being a science geek, but coming up with this remarkable substance as a teen, in his basement, that just happens to fit his transformation... Also, if he's supposed to be an everyman figure, then being a prodigy chemist kind of detracts from that.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Anwar]

Peter's never been an "Everyman", ever. Everymen are not geniuses like Peter (Reed Richards told him that he was as smart as Peter when he was his age). If he weren't Spiderman, Peter would by this point be some great researcher for some major corporation. That's not what an Everyman is.

 

[Technobuilder]

I'm not saying Peter couldn't come up with the formula...

It just makes his entire transformation more plausible from a Comic Book perspective.

My guess is the webbing is some sort of polymer like substance that expands exponentially when expelled. He could have tons of it stored up in Glands throughout the length of his body. There would of course be an upper limit to it depending on what was necessary to gestate it though.

 

[Nick Ryder]

I never really was a fan of the organic webshooters, but I think I recall a post organic shooters story where he still had his webshooters as a backup maybe... also didn't Pete use some of the Ben Rielly mods to the shooters like the impact webbing, stingers and microdot tracers for a while? If so, then the old shooters would still be useful, since he could control them a bit more than his own organic stuff.

Although dunno if I really want to spoil things for ya'll but I read one of the latest Spidey's today. And it seems like Pete might be moving out of the apartment he's sharing with that cop he's staying with and Aunt May... well... Peter might have a new uncle... dun dun dun!