Originally Posted by
TinkerSpider
This entire run is cynical and nihilisitic. No one here is operating in a vacuum. They are responding to what is on the page, IMO.
This is also what I am going to gently point out is an ad hominem logical fallacy, whereby one makes a blanket statement about a group of people's supposed states of minds/agendas instead of engaging in the individual opinions. If you see opinions you don't agree with, i hope you please engage with them! That's what a healthy conversation and exchange of opinions is about, IMO! But also IMO, a blanket ad hominem statement doesn't progress the conversation, it only gets people's backs up because they are being lumped into a group and their individual opinions dismissed. You may feel differently, of course, and that's fine, just pointing out why others may not.
People are commenting in direct response to preview pages as well as previous unlettered preview page, which show that Paul is the deuterogonist of this issue. They are commenting directly on the pages Marvel has chosen to use to market this title and to start a conversation. That's kinda to be expected and why previews are released in the first place, to get people's reactions?
IMO, this run has done more to regress MJ just to being a stereotypical 1950s sitcom wife & mommy than any single previous story, an MJ who happily does all the domentic labor while her co-parent gets to play and/or sit at the table waiting to be served, an MJ who doesn't lift a finger to self-rescue herself and instead relies on big strong men to save her, an MJ who passively accepts being a victim and doesn't make one active choice for herself - not even to be a superhero which is also other people thrusting their opinions on her, an MJ who in ASM 31 even blames herself for being cursed by Rabin and putting 616 in danger when she knows full well Rabin was ALREADY from 616 and had ALREADY declared his intent to destroy 616, he said all those things back in ASM 21, but in ASM 31 MJ accepts being a victim to the point she victim blames herself. An MJ who has apparently decided to be the supportive rock (and apparently a superhero action figure monitored by him - she's not out there on her own per the unlettered pages) to a man who committed planetary extinction when the only reason she even knows that man is because she was forcibly taken from her world, thrust into a world that actively tried to kill her at every turn which would cause all sorts of trauma - and trauma reshapes the brain - forced to rely on the only other adult alive on the entire planet (because he helped to kill everyone else, just sayin') and that man lied to her from the beginning, and CHAINED to care for two children who weren't human but were magical simulacra. CHAINED. Think about what that word imples, the weighted meanings of that word.
This is one of the most egregious stories ever imposed on a female character, MJ or not.
That's what money is for - to spend or not to spend as the bearer determines! Enjoy! Like I enjoyed the Amazing Mary Jane and MJ & BC: Beyond, which show this current itieration is by far not the only direction for a MJ-centric book (and MJ was already a star who takes over every page she's on, let's be real, that's why she's been as consistently popular as she is since her first full appearance in 1965)!