Just been revisiting the first appearances of Mr Negative, and I’d completely forgot at the same time we also had Jackpot.
What did we all think to Jackpot? Would you like to see some kind of return?
Just been revisiting the first appearances of Mr Negative, and I’d completely forgot at the same time we also had Jackpot.
What did we all think to Jackpot? Would you like to see some kind of return?
Once it was revealed Jackpot wasn't secretly MJ I rapidly lost interest in her. They had a chance to do something different with MJ Post-OMD but then seemingly got cold feet. MJ being Jackpot at the time and hiding that fact from Peter (for whatever reason) would have been far more engaging than the non-entity she became during the Slott Era.
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"So you've come to the end now alive but dead inside."
At one point, Sony was actually considering making a Jackpot movie. Wonder if they would have gone the Sara Ehret route.
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I think restorative nostalgia is the number one issue with comic book fans.
A fine distinction between two types of Nostalgia:
Reflective Nostalgia allows us to savor our memories but accepts that they are in the past
Restorative Nostalgia pushes back against the here and now, keeping us stuck trying to relive our glory days.
I think restorative nostalgia is the number one issue with comic book fans.
A fine distinction between two types of Nostalgia:
Reflective Nostalgia allows us to savor our memories but accepts that they are in the past
Restorative Nostalgia pushes back against the here and now, keeping us stuck trying to relive our glory days.
Marc Guggenheim said that Jackpot was never intended to be MJ. IT was an idea, proposed by Slott, that the BND people thought they could tease and build up a mystery and use the uncertainty of the Mephisto retcon to rankle people around. They also saw her as an update on the Prowler, another vigilante on street level and so on.
Utterly pointless character designed fir intrigue.
Considering how things sadly worked out after a promising start, you are 100% correct. Even if Jackpot being MJ in disguise was a red herring they could have done more with the character than they did. As things now stand she is an easily forgettable, and ignorable, footnote in Spidey's long history.
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"So you've come to the end now alive but dead inside."
I think restorative nostalgia is the number one issue with comic book fans.
A fine distinction between two types of Nostalgia:
Reflective Nostalgia allows us to savor our memories but accepts that they are in the past
Restorative Nostalgia pushes back against the here and now, keeping us stuck trying to relive our glory days.
Jackpot was definitely a missed opportunity in my opinion, even after it was confirmed that she wasn't MJ (I never really believed that she was) they could've done more with the character IMO but it never happened for the character.
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