"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
I do slightly wonder if Evil Spidey will kill Paul simply because my inside sources told me Peter would do something that MJ cannot forgive "while out of his mind". See, I thought 26 was the end of Wells run so I assumed the info was bad but I was wrong d'oh 26 was the hallway point (I guess). Either way, I don't give a shit at this point how the run ends.
"So you've come to the end now alive but dead inside."
I mean I don't know why he wouldn't be. Better question would be whether he would even know Reilly was a Clone.
I dont' know how unspoken it is. The satellite titles always sold less than the main book (which at times would have been really bad for the reader lol), which is why they just consolodated. They still lost readers, but the 35-40k that buy ASM no matter what could now be milked more effectively. Spinoffs require a happy fanbase I think, which OMD largely precludes. And the decompression doesn't help. Any time I read old comics it makes new ones seem way worse just because of how much that happens in a single issue of the old ones.
I think this has some possibility. If this book is reacting to what the main book is doing, Peter getting Norman's sins and turning evil could be used as a jump off point for Bailey to do his own thing.
Then again, that book will not sell. So it seems unlikely they would even try it.
i mean I would too even though I know the next issue would just be MJ saying she'll hate him forever. Though it would make her eventual forgiving of him slightly funnier.
"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
Sounds like Spider-Man meets Emerald Twilight
You all joke about Peter killing Paul, but legit if Peter actually kills someone, anyone, even under the bollocks of magic Goblin Sins, I will consider this the worst run of all time*. That's just something that is flat out bad writing for this character, even if it's hand-waved away by possession.
Currently, it is bad enough that I've stopped reading it (I stopped buying early in Beyond) but still nowhere near as god-awful as the Byrne era or BND for me.
*to this day I have a big problem with Christopher Priest for Spider-Man vs Wolverine, despite his trying to write it as "suicide by cape."
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"Has Sariel summoned you here, Azrael? Have you come to witness the miracle of your brethren arriving on Earth?"
"I WILL MIX THE ASHES OF YOUR BONES WITH SALT AND USE THEM TO ENSURE THE EARTH THE TEMPLARS TILLED NEVER BEARS FRUIT AGAIN!"
"*sigh* I hoped it was for the miracle."
Dan Watters' Azrael was incredible, a constant delight and perhaps too good for this world (but not the Forth). For the love of St. Dumas, DC, give us more!!!
i mean that's the funniest part of it all. In book it would be treated like a tragedy but the "Paul dies" page would be posted more than the kids disappearing as some grand celebration. The tonal dissonance would be striking.
i mean i already consider this to be the worst run of all time, so that's no threat from my perspective lol.
In all seriousness though, no I don't want Peter to kill Paul, that doesn't solve the problem. The problem has always been MJ. That's what needs to be fixed and that requires her to do it on her own. Paul is just a representative of the whole situation at this point. He's just a meme.