...the comic world is in an uproar over Marvel Comics' decision to undo the marriage of Peter Parker and red-haired bombshell Mary Jane Watson, reversing two decades of storytelling.
In Amazing Spider-Man #545 last week, Peter and Mary Jane make a tearful deal with the devil-like character Mephisto: In exchange for saving Aunt May's life, Mephisto erases all traces of the Peter-Mary Jane marriage from memory.
In the issue out this week, subtitled Brand New Day, Peter Parker returns to his roots — young, nerdy and single. Aunt May is alive and well and Mary Jane is again just part of the cast. The marriage never happened.
"People are very upset. They erased a lot of stuff that had been set in stone," says John Newman, manager of Ultimate Comics in Chapel Hill, N.C...
Cop out! All this does is give them ample new story lines for the same story. Sounds like a soap opera in that way. Really, at some point even a superhero has to retire otherwise he just ends up looking like some geriatric jerk in tights. If anything, resetting time ensures the comic can go on and on and on and on. Wish my vibrator would do that.
It's a little silly people are so upset over this. Of course I don't read this comic. In fact, I don't think I've ever flipped through this comic even once. With that being said, I don't do well with change either so I'm really just a hypocrite by making fun of the nerds. I was PISSED when the Professor in X-Men and Data in STG: Nemesis were killed off. PISSED.
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