"Wow. You made Spider-Man sad, congratulations. I stabbed The Hulk last week"
Wolverine, Venom Annual # 1 (2018)
Nobody does it better by Jeff Loveness
"I am Thou, Thou Art I"
Persona
Some stories seem more interesting to read about rather than actually read. Reign seems like one of those stories .
I mention it cause Mary Jane's presence is felt throughout the story. Though the Spider jizz part is pretty weird. But I do like the part were she shows up to encourage him.
That part is nice, but again it falls in the "Lost Lenore" concept and that's pretty problematic in and of itself.
Still even a weak comic can have nice moments.
It's just that I prefer it when MJ is alive and an active presence. She's the bright optimistic center of the stories.
I remember hearing that DC did something like that, think it was making Nightwing being used in a story that's pretty much Born Again, which, makes no sense thematically to happen with him, and also doesn't make much sense in-universe 'cause every super-hero would go help him if they heard something bad happened... And if the story is really like that, really not fitting to happen with him lol.
Honestly, biggest problem with Life Story for me is that since it has to add some of the convoluted nonsense that happened in each era, it can be harder to follow what's going on, and I feel that happened with the last issue (Though it wasn't as bad as, say, issue#5), so that works against it significantly...SPIDER-MAN LIFE STORY did what Reign did better. It's the real "last Spider-Man story" in the mythos on the level of TDKR and Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?
Was funny when it zoomed in one of the guys who was more shocked than the rest lol.
Nah, only Reign MJ got screwed over for being weak, the other two tend to be happy with Peter, guess 2/3 is good enough .As for the rest of your comment i feel that the only proper response is....to quote Deadpool "Your poor wife"
Mostly because the story is hardly ever talked about in a serious tone, despite how hard it tries to be serious, so in a casual conversation it sounds like a parody, and radioactive jizz certainly helps with this idea lol.
Well that kind of stuff about the "shared universe" can apply to most any hero. Batman got his back broken but since it's the DC Universe, he could have fixed up magic cures and returned quickly...he could have asked the Justice League or whoever to patrol Gotham extra...but the story has to pretend that Gotham is some bubble where only Batman and the Batfamily count, so there needs to be a second Batman, i.e. Azrael to step in and take over.
So the explanation about Nightwing in terms of "Every superhero would go help him" isn't a deal-breaker if the rest of the story fits.
To be honest though, if they want to do a Daredevil Born Again story with a DC character...John Constantine would be your man but then he's had so many stories where he's hit rock bottom and buried friends and lovers and so on, that Born Again would be somewhat quaint by his standards.
Good point, but it's still worth pointing out that Dick is a huge deal for Batfamily at least, so it'd look weirder for something like Born Again to happen to him, and Bruce not show up to at least try to find him at some point, unless it all happens in a too short time span.
But yeah, I don't even know what happened there besides "It's something like Born Again", so I can't talk too much about it, assuming it's even in the main universe, could be some what if, or even a fanfiction article I read on TV tropes.
At some point, Born Again would be just another tuesday for Roy Harper too, or maybe it'd be another tuesday now if DC decided to fuck his life that bad again.To be honest though, if they want to do a Daredevil Born Again story with a DC character...John Constantine would be your man but then he's had so many stories where he's hit rock bottom and buried friends and lovers and so on, that Born Again would be somewhat quaint by his standards.
I'm just going to say that I'm in the minority in that I really really like it.
The radioactive semen being the cause of MJ's death is weird and it certainly has its flaws.
But I for one found the story really compelling and memorable. It's not for everyone but it certainly worked for me.