15th anniversary of Brand New Day. Hooray?

[Darthfury78]

Nah, battles with Juggernaut are boring by nature.

Not if it involves Omega Red and Carnage in the mix...

[Darthfury78]

They definitely aren't as fun as fights with the Hulk or Spider-Man can be or Spider-Man fighting the Hulk...those are usually pretty good.

I would love to see Spider-Man vs Kevin MacTaggert, best known as Proteus...

[Darthfury78]

I don't think Ditko was setting up Gwen Stacy to be Peter's girlfriend. But I'm not so sure about Harry's girlfriend either. I honestly believe he was setting up a female antagonist for Spider-man. Perhaps a love interest too, but in the old school Batman/Catwoman sense. I don't think it was a coincidence that he depicted Gwen dressed in red with high arched brows and devil horns in her hair. She looks and reads like a classic femme fatale.

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Unfortunately for her she ultimately ended up being a femme fatality.

As far as Ditko's plans for Mary Jane, it's possible. I think it certainly reads that way. But unfortunately we'll never know for certain because (as far as I know) Ditko never spoke publicly about his plans for those characters.

The Black Widow could had fit the description perfectly.

[Mister Mets]

If Roger Stern had been made full time writer of ASM(instead of Dan Slott) the battle with Juggernaut would had been flushed out better...

That was a stretch of the book when Dan Slott was largely absent (he didn't write #601-617 or 622-645) and I don't see how Stern would have done the A-plot differently if he were the main writer.

[Darthfury78]

That was a stretch of the book when Dan Slott was largely absent (he didn't write #601-617 or 622-645) and I don't see how Stern would have done the A-plot differently if he were the main writer.

Roger Stern is known for carrying over his previous work(Avengers, etc) to the plot of the story. Had ASM not been a bi-weekly series, Stern would do fine. What I want to see is a Spider-Man writer bringing his previous work from another series(eg, Avengers) unto Spider-Man's world.

[Dog]

Marriage hasn't gone anywhere, and that'll continue.

If the marriage hasn't gone anywhere, there are a whole lot of people complaining for no reason ...