The Amazing Spider-Surprise!
December 31, 2008How exciting! A new year and a “HUGE CHANGE” in Spider-Man’s life! Will he stop watching television instead of fighting crime?
The Amazing Spider-Man - 12/31/2008
I am not familiar with the comic book series, but I think I remember hearing that Spider-Man is only still married in the comic strip version. Will he and Mary Jane get divorced? Will Peter Parker whine constantly about it? Will he be so distracted that he actually fights crime less than he does now?
Stay tuned to find out…..
All right, this is going to get even harder to believe than a guy with spider-powers.
Peter gave up his secret identity during the foolishness that Marvel called Civil War, which was neither civil nor a war. After all that was over, MJ decided he needed his secret identity back. But rather than, say, kill his existing identity and adopt a new one, or get rid of Spider-Man and create a new identity, or just give up crime-fighting and watch TV, she made a deal with the (pretty literal) devil that everyone would forget who Spider-Man is.
(I don’t read this stuff; I just read summations. It’s better for my blood pressure.)
SoooOO. She didn’t get a divorce because that would be a bad influence on the kiddies, seeing a major comics character get divorced. (A deal with the devil is so much better. Like in the Planet of the Apes cartoon series, where they had rocket launchers and howitzers instead of rifles, because those kids couldn’t find at home. I digress.) The devil’s way of enforcing the deal was to make Peter a teenager again, studying at school, and unmarried.
Everyone forgets, and there’s irreparable damage to the sequence of events in the Marvel universe–like, anything Peter Parker ever touched. So the editor in chief can have a teenager as Spider-Man again.
Ewww.
Comment by John McMullen — January 12, 2009 @ 3:45 pm
Good work on this…keep the old strips coming!
Comment by Dan — January 23, 2009 @ 4:13 pm
[...] me, the ironic thing is that when the Spiderman strip unvieled it’s HUGE CHANGE back in January, they used constant large dialog boxes to fill us in on what was going on when they [...]
Pingback by Comic Strip Archive » Spiderman: Expositioning Like It’s Nobody’s Business — February 13, 2009 @ 2:20 pm
Well, neither the Spider-Man series now the Civil War miniseries is the best-written comic out there (that title would have to go either to Sandman (Neil Gaiman), or Watchmen (Alan Moore).
I would have preferred Peter to change his legal or super-hero identity–that would have made for more interesting stories. But Marvel decided to keep the integrity of Spider-Man intact by turning him back into a teen and having everybody forget that Peter Parker is Spider-Man!
I doubt that Gaiman or Moore would have resorted to such a plot device, but now that Civil War is over, I wonder how much different (and better) the script might have been had either one (or both) of those two comic-writing titans given his (or their) talents to Civil War. As it is, Civil War can’t compare to Sandman or Watchmen. I think it’s time for Spider-Man to take a nice, long break… in HELL!!!
Comment by Corey Murray — October 26, 2009 @ 2:45 pm