"The Enigma Force is not a tool to be manipulated by mortals. The Enigma Force comes to those it deems worthy. What temerity, what arrogance, makes you think you are worthy? Have you not all made mistakes? Unforgiveable ones?" - Captain Universe
"Call me an Avenging Angel, Baron, come to safeguard Earth...call me CAPTAIN UNIVERSE!" - Ray Coffin
"You're my heart, Mary Jane Watson...you're my jackpot." - Peter Parker
Felicia almost getting herself and Peter's sister killed.
"The Enigma Force is not a tool to be manipulated by mortals. The Enigma Force comes to those it deems worthy. What temerity, what arrogance, makes you think you are worthy? Have you not all made mistakes? Unforgiveable ones?" - Captain Universe
"Call me an Avenging Angel, Baron, come to safeguard Earth...call me CAPTAIN UNIVERSE!" - Ray Coffin
"You're my heart, Mary Jane Watson...you're my jackpot." - Peter Parker
Well, I do like how he is tying back to BC/MJ #1 during Beyond and tying up the inconsistencies here. A little exposition heavy but I guess it has to be to make up for ASM.
Also, "Betty and Veronica" of the Marvel Universe? I guess that's what they are now? Kind of made sense for Gwen and MJ, but now it's like Veronica and Criminal Veronica.
"The Enigma Force is not a tool to be manipulated by mortals. The Enigma Force comes to those it deems worthy. What temerity, what arrogance, makes you think you are worthy? Have you not all made mistakes? Unforgiveable ones?" - Captain Universe
"Call me an Avenging Angel, Baron, come to safeguard Earth...call me CAPTAIN UNIVERSE!" - Ray Coffin
"You're my heart, Mary Jane Watson...you're my jackpot." - Peter Parker
In all seriousness, MacKay was probably under heavy editorial guidelines for this mini. And he had to do a lot of heavy lifting that ASM just failed on.
Since the last issue was solicited as the end of the first arc, hopefully the next arc, whenever it releases, will allow MacKay more creative freedom and a stronger status quo to work with than the Wells Mystery Box.
We now return to our regularly scheduled Black Cat mini guest-starring Mary Jane Watson and Sym that's a tie-in to an event that's already over .
MJ keeps whining about those kids. Which, okay, as a mom I get it, but under the circumstances and knowing what the kids represent...yeah, no.
They actually addressed in the Beyond one-shot how they were both the Veronica in the context of their relationship with Peter.
spoilers:end of spoilers
last we seen MJ, Felicia and Sym, they are trapped by the tentacle monster(cue jokes of I seen enough hentai to know where this is going), Felicia freed MJ and MJ screamed that she mad not because Felicia stole Peter but that she kept that info that could have saved them from the situation and MJ said she's happy for Peter and Felicia. Felicia tells MJ to tell Peter she loved him and MJ said "tell him yourself and use her powers, hit jackpot 777, turned into a being of blue fire destroyed the creature and revived a dead Sym, they reach sword and realized they better not take it out as they knew Belasco is up to know good which made Sym confess they are right, and decided not to take the sword and then as they open the gate, they confronted by a army of demons, punk girls, Hydra, who want the sword, issue ends
So just like everyone predicted, spoilers:end of spoilersthe wholly artificial and completely manufactured "conflict" woud have been over in issue 2.
if the two women had been written as adult human beings who used their big people words and not as sexist catfighting over a boy stereotypes,
This calls for infinite eye rolls.
Last edited by TinkerSpider; 03-07-2023 at 10:16 AM.