Top Ten Times Marvel Destroyed It's Own History: Spider-Man Rankings

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Especially considerating that both the Clone Saga and OMD had changes that were explained in the last stories of the Clone Saga and the One Moment in Time story.

As Tony Stark demonstrated clearly in Homecoming...when you screw the pooch, nobody is going to care about the part where you take the puppies home and care about it because the metaphor by itself doesn't last after that colorful an opening.

When you do a big story about how 20 years of continuity didn't happen and in the course of that story have events like the death of Aunt May and Peter and MJ having a miscarriage that ends up not having any consequences and is largely downplayed and ignored later on...nobody is going to care about the rest.

When you try and undo 20 years of stories and 810 issues' worth of content in a piece of trash 4 part story, nobody is going to care.

OMIT did explained the changes done in OMD (Why Peter and Mary Jane did not get married and went to have instead a commited relationship,

Which didn't make any damn sense. It literally makes no sense that Mary Jane would enter a committed relationship with the man who humiliated her by leaving her at the altar. It makes no sense that Aunt May would tolerate this based on what we see of her in ASM Annual #21 and the entire history of her relationship with Peter and Mary Jane.

So saying that OMD is the story that "destroyed" the most the Marvel history is a hyperbole...

OMD did not go far enough. To truly get rid of the marriage you need to go George Lucas and re-edit and re do, redraw all the stories in the marriage which are widely available and remain in print...and which Marvel Editors keep inserting references in captions (see this issue and so on).

The Clone Saga told us that the Peter Parker who met the Kid Who Collected Spider-Man was a clone, the one who fought Juggernaut, Firelord, and Venom were clones. The one who romanced Felicia Hardy and wed Mary Jane were clones.

OMD is telling us that the Peter and Mary Jane of Kraven's Last Hunt, the Venom Saga, the Jonathan Caesar trilogy, JMD's entire Spectacular Run, the Clone Saga, JMS', Paul Jenkins' run, Tom Beland's Web of Romance, Marvel Knights Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Blue and of course ''To Have and to Hold'' weren't married.

To which I say, sincerely, f--k you. The Post-OMD Continuity depends on the knowledge of the marriage being a thing which happened. And the fact that this new continuity was created by Quesada and Slott in a writer's room with no organic ties to the Spider-Man of AF#15. It has no internal legitimacy.