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One of the most egregious things that occurred with MJ'S character was way back in the Clone Saga where she's pregnant with she and Peter's child they're all giddy about it and then later on she miscarries the child. That is just so...tasteless of them to do that. Reprehensible character assassination right there. I'm surprised there wasn't some conflict with the writers/editors over that.
^^^Truly one of the saddest moments in comic book history (IMHO):
"Good-bye. Good luck. Good riddance."
Ultimate Spider-Man #5. Art by Stephen Segovia
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It’s weird how much this highlights the difference in creative philosophies between the 90’s and the 10’s/early 20’s.
You could argue that editorial is being capriciously bossy towards creators who don’t follow their opinion, “arguing” with the audience, and outright hostile to the idea of Peter having a family both then and now - and you could maybe even argue that the 90’s saw a more overtly destructive and capricious type of management, considering that this was 90’s Marvel hurtling the industry into its near death based off marketing driven thought colliding with a speculation boom.
...But the creative philosophy of the 90’s writers, having been recruited and trained in the earlier decade that was positive towards Peter’s growth and if anything utterly convicted in how positive growth and change were industry wide, translates editorial’s consistent hatred of the idea in completely different ways.
The Clone Saga is a mess of frustrated editorial demands and arguably equally reliant on soap opera craziness as the current run... but the writers translated that into “mere” soap opera hokum that strains credulity, but still remains a largely human story with semi-plausible and fleshed out execution that would be easy to undo without much fuss.
That’s a totally different world from this current era, where writers are recruited and encouraged to approach things with a shallowed, more fantastical but less fleshe our approach that strains the suspension of disbelief that any of this stuff will matter in the long run, or that it’s ridiculousness will even be acknowledged.
I mean, in both cases, editorial’s ordering or whole heartedly approving cruelty upon MJ to try and keep Peter from getting a family, but in one it’s a human story, and in the other it’s a bunch of archetypes jerked around in an illogical and clearly artificial way.
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