Is JMS run actually THAT good?

[Matt Rat]

I think a lot of the "Spider-Man needs to be about youth first and foremost" creative decisions are more interested sweeping stuff under the rug

Losing a child is hard to sweep under, and concealing it's impact is very intellectually dishonest. A situation like that will always age you.

[Scott Taylor]

Comics back then didn’t dwell on PTSD very much (heck they don’t do it too much now), so writing her out of the story was probably the most they could do with her.

After reading a little too much Tom King over the past few years, I'm good with comics just being comics again.

[phonogram12]

Losing a child is hard to sweep under, and concealing it's impact is very intellectually dishonest. A situation like that will always age you.

IRL I completely agree. In fiction that's a completely different story. I've seen dramas where a character finds out that his wife has been secretly going to swingers clubs behind his back and as heart wrenching as it is that episode, it's not even mentioned the next. It's the nature of fiction, unfortunately. Events are only as important as the creators want them to be.

[Kaitou D. Kid]

Just my opinion, but the 90s was too early for Peter and MJ to have a child. As much as I dislike the de-aging, I have no problem with that part of the Clone Saga being swept under the rug.

IMO, Peter and MJ were not going to have a kid this early even without OMD happening. JMS' MJ was travelling everywhere for her career and Peter just got a new job as a teacher and was fixated on his students. None of that screams "soon-to-be parents". (which isn't to say they don't want or shouldn't eventually have kids)

If OMD never happened, I think the 2010's were the earliest you could have made Peter and MJ have a kid.

[Matt Rat]

Just my opinion, but the 90s was too early for Peter and MJ to have a child

Had Mayday survived they would have adjusted, in fact the short-lived Mr and Mrs Spider-Man strip demonstrated how they did. They proved more than capable.

If OMD never happened, I think the 2010's were the earliest you could have made Peter and MJ have a kid.

Re: Renew Your Vows

[PCN24454]

How do people feel about the plots that JMS had. I originally considered his weak plots a knock against him, but looking back at Spider-Man as a whole, I’m not sure Spider-Man ever had strong plots at all, so I don’t know why I singled him out.

[Kaitou D. Kid]

Had Mayday survived they would have adjusted, in fact the short-lived Mr and Mrs Spider-Man strip demonstrated how they did. They proved more than capable.

I'm referring to the length of the status quo, and not their parenting skills.

IMO, there were still more interesting stories to explore with Peter and MJ as a young childless couple before Marvel goes ahead and gives them a child. I am fine with the 90's and the JMS era having focused on that status quo and on Teacher Peter instead of Father Peter.