Liked both May and the kid. Disliked the John Wick cosplayer, hopefully my man Peter will appear eventually.
Liked both May and the kid. Disliked the John Wick cosplayer, hopefully my man Peter will appear eventually.
Doctor Strange: "You are the right person to replace Logan."
X-23: "I know there are people who disapprove... Guys on the Internet mainly."
(All-New Wolverine #4)
There's a few interesting things set up for the story and I get that the father/son writing team wanted to do a father/son story. But I really hate that they had to kill Mary Jane as an excuse to get this emotional reaction from Peter and have her serve as some inspiring figure for Peter and Ben rather than an actual character (which is particularly annoying since the promotional material made it seem like MJ would have a more active role in the story rather than this passive dead mommy role for the angsting male characters). Maybe she'll get revived or something down the line, but as far as I'm concerned the story has already earned its refrigerator mark.
The art is really nice though.
"So you've come to the end now alive but dead inside."
"He's pure power and doesn't even know it. He's the best of us."-Matt Murdock
"I need a reason to take the mask off."-Peter Parker
"My heart half-breaks at how easy it is to lie to him. It breaks all the way when he believes me without question." Felicia Hardy
"So you've come to the end now alive but dead inside."
spoilers:end of spoilers
I sure do. I said I'd prefer neither died but if I had to pick one Aunt May would be it for the reasons I've outlined. I suspect the user who asked the question was baiting me into a response. I decided to heck with it I'll outline my reasoning thus making my choice clear. I've said I see little value in preserving Aunt May the character in past posts and I'm not a hypocrite (I hate hypocrites more than anything else). I maintain my earlier stance harash as it is.
"So you've come to the end now alive but dead inside."
spoilers:end of spoilers
No need to do that. I'm not angry with you or anyone really. I'd prefer no female character dies to be motivation for a male character in comic books ever again, even Aunt May. It is a cheap, tired, outdated tactic. If I had written the book I would not have gone in such a direction. I feel JJ Abrams and his son want to tell a father/son story a mother figure would get in the way of this so they offed MJ and used her tragic death as motivation.
"So you've come to the end now alive but dead inside."