"He's pure power and doesn't even know it. He's the best of us."-Matt Murdock
"I need a reason to take the mask off."-Peter Parker
"My heart half-breaks at how easy it is to lie to him. It breaks all the way when he believes me without question." Felicia Hardy
I have a feeling this is as good as it is going to get. If the leaks are true, that is.
"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
If anything, Norman gave Peter all of Oscorp and Parker Industries is back but with Oscorp in it as Parker-Oscorp Beyond as Homage to Norman and Harry, plus he left safeguards for peter if it comes down to he going back to what he was.
Also, Red Goblin #10 is Norman's last send-off before ASM #35's events and Dylan will be there too since he will be off now that Natasha is now "Venom".
And with Misery showing that the Goblin Cult is back stronger than ever, Norman may be meeting up with them after this.
"He's pure power and doesn't even know it. He's the best of us."-Matt Murdock
"I need a reason to take the mask off."-Peter Parker
"My heart half-breaks at how easy it is to lie to him. It breaks all the way when he believes me without question." Felicia Hardy
Don't want to be too much of a downer, but there is no way that those leaks are true. Anything without pictures from 4Chan of all places should be taken with the highest skepticism. Especially since broad strokes of everything happening in ASM for the past few months have been really predictable based on solicits and whatnot. Like people can easily take the broad strokes of what is 95% going to happen and write what is essentially fan fiction from there. It's not worth thinking too deeply about. But to go into why specifically I don't think this set of spoilers is really true:
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Is that how you do this? There is no mention of Kraven at all here. ASM #33 really centered on Kraven and his feelings of inferiority. ASM #34 compounds that by having Kraven question his own worth to the point of killing himself. If that story doesnt have a major continuation about in ASM #35 then the previous issues were just a giant waste of time. So like any spoiler that doesn't describe how Kraven is involved should be thrown out imo. Also incel Peter forcing a confession from MJ that she still loves him is problematic, he should not be getting that much of a win from being horribly violent towards his ex.
But getting back to Kraven, in many ways this entire story is about Kraven. He is the one with a continuous arc throughout all of it. Like Peter isn't going to learn or grow from this. And if anything Norman is the secondary focus here since him *probably* (just my prediction) factory resetting is a tragedy. Peter in this story is mostly just the monster and a guy who things happen around, he's had no agency from the jump. So I think people should be thinking about how much ASM 35 will actually be about Peter at all. Just food for thought.
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Kraven being a part of the ritual isn't really satisfying to me in that regard. Feels like there should be something more there. Like some kind of realization as to how he's grown because of this or whatever. Not that I've liked the Kraven stuff too much here, it just seems like the overall point of the story to me outside of status quo resetting. But if you disagree that's fine.
Even if the spoilers are real…
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It just raises further questions. If MJ still loved Peter the whole time, why wouldn’t she at least float the idea of coparenting the kids with him? It’s not like he found someone else in the intervening time. I guess she might still feel bad for Paul, but she didn’t need to be so harsh to Peter. Plus of course her personal history rather suggests she would rather be with the man she loves most rather than sticking with Paul out of obligation.
Plus the factory reset of Norman is still built on the misunderstanding of Peter and Norman’s relationship, specifically that there was one before he was the Goblin. As recently as the Spencer run Peter pointed out that he was basically a stranger to Norman, at best, pre-serum.
Honestly these spoilers read like wishful thinking that was made up, or there’s been major course correction. Of course even if Peter and MJ do get back together heck even undo OMD (fat chance of that, given Slott is tweeting as recently as a few days back that no status quo change will last), Wells can’t undo the first half of his run and how he botched Peter and MJ (and Felicia too, honestly). The biggest event this issue marks is starting the countdown to his departure.
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At the very least they might be fixing to get a better set up for the Jackpot mini. Maybe.
If the leak is true, that sounds incredibly lazy.