To me that's the issue. Writers outside of Bendis don't seem invested in their relationship. A writer either seems more invested in Jessica or Luke. Marvel also just seems uninterested in marriages as a whole. Jessica Jones is alright but never saw her worthy and developed enough to marry my boy, and the marriage happened way too fast, in my opinion. Now Jenifer Walters I can dig. Loved Jenifer in Heroes for Hire by John Ostrander.
I agree 100%. Marriage and being a family man is great and the ideal in real life but cripples characters who are supposed to be interesting and last a long time. Which is why I am mostly against having characters get married and have kids in a mainstream universe. Unless of course the character was created with the intention of doing from the get-go. And there was the hint that his daughter was always a Skrull in the late 2000s that never materialized, so if a writer who’s brave enough ever comes along and follows up with that, it could unravel the marriage have him go back to basics with the classic look and the moniker of Power Man.
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This is absolutely not true. Peter Parker didn't become less interesting when he married Mary Jane. Cyclops didn't become less interesting when he married Jean. This juvenile thought process is what got us garbage like One More Day. Capable writers don't see marriage as an impediment or hindrance, especially in a world where most major superheroes are perpetually single and shuffle through love interests. Not to mention, Luke Cage as a character has always had an element of taking the dangerous thuggish black male stereotype and subverting it. Allowing Luke to be a committed family man adds onto that and makes him more layered.
Agreed. There's nothing 'deadly' about a character growing and maturing and developing a healthy adult relationship, instead of being stuck in a perpetual adolescent state even into their thirties and forties, when it looks increasingly unhealthy and 'interrupted' for them to be acting like teenagers who can't 'adult' successfully.
Our society seems to reward the angsty loners, like Rorshach or Wolverine, instead of recognizing that even their creators intended for them to be seen as lonely and kind of sad and disturbing, not as something to emulate or hold up as healthy ideals or target goals.
"Ooh, I want to be the smelly loner who other people shy away from and who lives alone and eats beans out of cans! Sign me up for that life of gruff manly independence!"
Because writers did stories w/ them.These days we usually have writers interested in one of the duo and that's why we rarely get anything for them after Bendis and the purple child thing.Devil's Reign will have a spotlight on those 2(Chip said so himself) so hopefully it'll renew interest.
I agree w/ the latter half 100% though.
I disagree. The Spider-marriage was a mistake. And I would say it’s the opposite of making him more layered. He’s become dull. These are timeless characters we’re talking about. It’s a shame when new readers are denied the fun aspects of a character because creators want to leave their marks.
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What exactly is the fun aspect missing from a married man? Running around hooking up with multiple different women, a new generic love interest per writer like Wolverine, very few of whom make any sort of lasting impression on the character or the franchise? It's a shame when readers are so incapable of growing up they need to project their fantasies of perpetual bachelorhood onto fictional characters. Especially where there are already 100 perpetual bachelor characters to choose from.
The problem isn't the marriage. The problem is a lot of writers don't know what to do with Luke and Jessica. Why are we getting minis of Luke with no Jessica or baby.
If I were a writer, I'd be doing stories of Luke and Jessica starting their own P.I. firm or bodyguard services instead of just focusing on Luke alone. He has a wife and kids and they need to be a part of his life. Why Marvel is acting like Luke is some kind of solo hero is silly.