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Post by zarius on Jun 12, 2009 3:37:02 GMT -5
robot6.comicbookresources.com/2009/05/fan-letters-save-spider-mans-marriage-in-the-comic-strip/I read a solit back in January that they were always going to restore the marraige and pull this "Bobby Ewing" moment, then make it look like reader demand had saved it. I guess that means "reader demand"= Stan just wanted to vent his own opinion creativly. Good for him. Since the first six-month arc turned out to be a dream, I'm fascinated by what was IN it. Peter seems to be fixated on having arch-enemies make up with their six year old boys whilst he waits outside their hospital room! ;D  The daily strip may be a tad "basic", but god when compared to the "modernist" junk I get from Marvel these days, I'd much rather read "basic veteran" than childish crayon The current storyline is building towards a Spidey/Wolverine showdown with Doc Ock, just in time to tie into ASM Issue 600, also featuring Doc Ock. I know it's the dailes I'd rather read.
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Post by Jor-L5150 on Aug 20, 2009 12:41:37 GMT -5
wow - wasnt sure the spidey strip was still around.
is it official continuity ?
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Post by ShogunLogan on Aug 20, 2009 17:08:57 GMT -5
wow - wasnt sure the spidey strip was still around. is it official continuity ? No...and Spidey still isn't married to MJ and it is issue 603...although the current story arc does feature MJ (and the Chameleon). |
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Post by Jor-L5150 on Aug 25, 2009 14:13:51 GMT -5
wow - wasnt sure the spidey strip was still around. is it official continuity ? No...and Spidey still isn't married to MJ and it is issue 603...although the current story arc does feature MJ (and the Chameleon). i kinda thought they were seperate interperatations/continuities. my local papers havent carried spidey in ages  |
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Post by zarius on Sept 5, 2009 12:58:39 GMT -5
Spider-Man is in a bit of a weird place where continuity goes right now.
In fact, he's had this problem since 1999 thanks to John Byrne's "Chapter One" mini-series...they retconned that out rather sloppily and without fanfare, yet still changed things around when JMS came on board and played havoc with continuity to tell his Spider-Totem arc. Then the House of M reality became canon for a while, then it switched back to JMS's continuity. BND is the latest in a long, seemingly unending line of "official" continuities that stop being official once the story exhausts it's options
That's not to say that the timeline can't be "restructured", but it does make it easier to completly discount the official continuity as meaning anything in the slightest.
I think there was even an issue before OMD where an Angel visited Peter and basicly told him everything will turn out fine, which indicated he knew about the deal about to go down and came from the future where they have overcome that and whatever BND throws at them. You could sort of assess that Marvel covered their bets in case of an emergency retcon.
But now "Captain America: Rebirth" is playing havoc with continuity. As you can see, it's a process that's become a royal pain in the arse.
The MC2-based "Mr and Mrs Spider-Man" strips hinted that every issue that's taken place in BND from SPIDEY'S point-of-view sort of still transpires, but when you look at his personal life, Peter and MJ are married, May is dead, and Kaine suceeded in retreiving their daughter, so there parents in an uninterupted reality which may or may not be the real one again. The final strip revealed Carlie Cooper recommends that Peter join the NYPD, which he does when he retires as Spidey in the MC2 continuity
Joe Quesada is also an avid fan of Tom DeFalco's Spider-Girl series to the point it boarders on almost unofficially becoming canocial. I've had theories for a long time that MC2 is supposed to be the original Marvel Universe that existed from 1962-1998 before the retcons came into effect and slowly led to the Universe we have now that is less insistent on consistent continuity. Fortunatly, for anyone who cares about continuity, it's very easy to consolidate the less convulted Marvel events into this reality's past up to "Last Hero Standing"
The Newspaper Daily is ambigious enough that you could actually "count" it as being set in the post-Cival War Marvel Universe because of the "psychic blindspot" Peter used to mask his identity during the gap between OMD and the current BND storyline...MJ just happens to still be married to him, and since it's Stan Lee's preference for the character, I'd rather count it than the "corporate status quoe" Marvel insist on for Spidey.
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