Spider-Man: One More Day, One Moment in Time and Joe Q
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Well May was in a relationship with Jarvis who turned out to be a Skrull infiltrator and I'm not sure they even bothered touching on that after wards or how it affected her. I like what they've done with May and Jameson's father.
Uncle Ben, Ock, that Nathan dude in the wheelchair although I don't think the two of them were actually dating, Jarvis, and J. Jonah Jameson Sr. Pretty sure that's the full list. Someone can feel free to correct me. I should have posted the big time trailer here, it would have got more responses.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I honestly don't even recall any moments that even implied that Peter & Gwen were having sex. I can recall moments like that with MJ and with Betty Brant (when her marriage with Ned Leeds was falling apart, not during the Ditko days) that certainly implied they may have something sexual with Peter, but not with Gwen. I think it's something that was probably just left to the interpretation of each individual reader, which is how superhero sex lives should be handled 99% of the time, IMO.
OK, perhaps I shouldn't have speculated on JMS's motives even as lightly as I did here. But as I recall, he talked openly about his disatisfaction with the Goblin's motives in #121-122 in the interviews he did shortly after "Sins Past" (None of which I can seem to find in a Google seach now...). So I don't think I was making that big of a leap there.
I still say the biggest sign of respect you can show to a story to leave it alone and not blatantly contradict it. JMS's story reeked of the "Let me piss on this and make it mine" attitude I find in way too many of today's comic creators.
I think there was also some sort of flashback story that had a young May Reilly being courted by a fellow with criminal ties around the same time she was dating Ben.
Honestly, I'm amazed that in nearly 50 years of Spider-Man stories, no one has ever tried Aunt May dating J. Jonah Jameson (and yes, I know she's married to his father now).
Yeah I remember that story as well, can't remember the issue though. I too remember JMS giving an interview in Wizard about his reasons for doing the "Sins Past" story being that he didn't buy the Goblin's motivations for killing Gwen. I disagreed with him then and I do now. I also believe all the "Sins Past" flashbacks ended up with Norman snatching Gwen after another argument about the twins just before he tosses her off the bridge.
I think I get what Christopher is attempting to say about Gwen being more empowered but I always looked at her thanks to that story as having even LESS power. She was fighting for control for her children that she was never going to get in the first place, the point being that Norman was using her which I feel is the primary reason why the implications of the story hit so strongly with fans. Not just that it was disgraceful to the characters memory and our own memory of Gwen but that the implication of the sexual act between Gwen and Norman was under less than positive circumstances.
I think I get what Christopher is attempting to say about Gwen being more empowered but I always looked at her thanks to that story as having even LESS power. She was fighting for control for her children that she was never going to get in the first place, the point being that Norman was using her which I feel is the primary reason why the implications of the story hit so strongly with fans. Not just that it was disgraceful to the characters memory and our own memory of Gwen but that the implication of the sexual act between Gwen and Norman was under less than positive circumstances.
Agreed. Sleeping with the father of her boyfriend's roommate (whom she also used to date) doesn't paint her in a very positive light, IMO. If someone I knew in real life had done something like that, it would lower my opinion of her (or him) considerably.
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