Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
no spencer's first issue requires peter and mj to have been previously married and to have their marriage taken away from them by the devil in a deal that left their souls screaming for each other and for their conscious selves to be aware that something important is missing.
i can say that with confidence because it is in the issue by having peter referring to something missing and showing mj's bare left hand. it still requires peter and mj to have been married and to know deep down something is wrong. that is not the same as being single as in never been married which is what omd was supposed to bring about.
also peter and mj could be married but separated like they were in doomed affairs and the story would play out the same. this was basically doomed affairs with a mephisto twist. same result, peter and mj get back together.
as for the rest of the issue if peter and mj were married then randy and fred could live in the apartment next door. the same tension of being near fred would play out the same. even funnier if fred just walks into peter's and mj's apartment as if he lives there and helps himself to their stuff. also with peter and mj single peter spends a lot of time in mj's apartment so less opportunity for fred interactions. if they lived next door there would be more opportunities for fred hijinks.
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There's a whole panel of MJ's hand missing a ring and Peter mentioning that he feels like something is missing. So Him being married to her before is still kinda a driving force of this run.
I think Spencer is going to play the long game with the relationship. If they do get engaged it will be a while before we hear webbing bells again. As one of the anti marrige complaints was how he was single one month and married the next.
Plus its a have your cake and eat it too scenario. He's not married, but in a committed mature relationship with MJ.
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I created a thread about Dick Grayson/Nightwing and Koriand'r/Starfire. It is to acknowledge and honor their iconic and popular relationship.
I created a fan page about Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson. This page is for all the Spider-Marriage fans.
I think he and MJ should share Felicia. Get as freaky as the X-Men apparently are going to get.
It would be fun if Mary Jane got a new boyfriend and ended up marrying him.
It's a lot more than one line. Peter refers to Mary Jane as his wife multiple times. Notably in that conversation to Lamont. Then MJ tells that Shield guy "Let me introduce you to my husband", and then the finale you have Mary Jane saying this,
"Maybe the rest of the world thinks marriage is something people do between other marriages, but it means something to me. You’re my partner and my husband and I love you."
That sentence literally can't be rewritten...unless of course you want to appoint yourself a better writer than Matt Fraction.
Spencer's first issue requiresSpencer's first issue still requires Peter and MJ to be single to work.
-- Peter to be an adult and not a teenager, notably someone who is in his mid-20s.
-- It requires Spider-Man to be published serially with prior events in continuity that Spencer has to allude to since he isn't doing a reboot from scratch.
And of course Spencer's first issue would be different if events in Slott's continuity didn't happen since his first issue is devoted to destroying as much of Slott's changes as possible.
This kind of moving...not so much goalposts, as opposed to putting the football field on a treadmill and so on....can lead to all kinds of hair-splitting.
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I created a thread about Dick Grayson/Nightwing and Koriand'r/Starfire. It is to acknowledge and honor their iconic and popular relationship.
I created a fan page about Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson. This page is for all the Spider-Marriage fans.
I created a thread about Dick Grayson/Nightwing and Koriand'r/Starfire. It is to acknowledge and honor their iconic and popular relationship.
I created a fan page about Peter Parker/Spider-Man and Mary Jane Watson. This page is for all the Spider-Marriage fans.
I'll take it back on "To Have and to Hold" in that there are going to be several specific lines that would be different if they weren't married. But I main the basic arc works without the marriage, if it's just two fugitives who love one another.
The basic gist of the latest ASM 29 doesn't work if Peter and MJ are married. You could have a story where a married Peter Parker misses some important event because he's fighting the Chameleon (IE- his baby's first steps) but it's going to be a different story.
Sincerely,
Thomas Mets
Why I think I lack interest in Peter's relationship with MJ is because we know there is a limit on where it can go (same for any of his romantic entanglements Post-OMD). The situation reminds me of a quote by old-time Pro Wrestling personality Jim Cornette. I'll clean it up a bit as Jim has a colorful way of speaking lol -
"The problem with an overly dominant champion who squashes (easily defeats) every foe for a long time is it ruins the illusion of realism. We all know Pro Wrestling is scripted, but when one side is perceived as having no chance of victory why should anyone become emotionally invested in the match (struggle)?"
"So you've come to the end now alive but dead inside."