I think this is just a Miles story. I think most of the OMD damage is now undone and the Peter/MJ situation came to a full circle as during this 10 year they've been on and off and never fully moved on to other people. And now Spencer confirmid that they were in love all this time.
And I think that eventually ( and now is closer than ever) is going to be the time again for a married Spider-Man again. Especially with Miles introduction for a wider audience and Spider in the MCU. That is preparing people to the ideia of a Peter Parker that eventually will grown and get married.
So the marriege situation is easy to restart, no need to undo a story from 10 years ago. The only problem I think they should deal asap is that Marvel's heart and soul made a deal and let evil win. A storyline to fix this is really necessary.
I don't have a strong opinion one way or another on Peter and MJ finding out about OMD and trying to do something about it - it could be a good story or a bad story, who knows? The ramifications of such a series could be anything from a nothing burger (they decide to stay unmarried but in each others lives even knowing they used to be married) to monumental (they're married and MJ is suddenly pregnant with every single alt-universe spider kid and the book becomes about them raising a litter of spider babies). Whatever, it'll be fine or it won't, we'll enjoy it or we won't.
However, I don't think a Miles subplot in Champions is a strong indication that anything like that might or might not happen in ASM (or a VERY IMPORTANT spider mini series) in the near future (is Champions under the SM editorial office?). Miles' book solicits aren't indicating anything like that soon. FNSM's solicits the same. SM/Deadpool is doing some absurdist BIG EVENT mash up with a new villain. Gwen's in her own universe. ASM has a big Kraven story coming up (and the gossip on BleedingCool, taken with at least a grain or more of salt, is that Mephisto won't be around for a big fall event). Otto is doing his own thing. The hypothetical third part of OMD is not going to appear out of the ether fully formed to surprise us all. We'll see it coming from a mile away.
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I meant in terms of solicitations and/or comic shop inducements (incentive covers, etc. to make sure enough copies are in stores). Marvel isn't prone to having huge things happen in a book and then have fans pissed their shop doesn't have the book in stock. ASM's sales are fine, but if, hypothetically, ASM #20 is a secret part 1 of OMD3 with no notice, I'd imagine shops nationwide will be 40-70K copies short compared to demand.
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What's Mephisto's obession with Spiders? Better question why do they make deals with him, when they know he is a villain, and an analogue of the Devil
As Erik Larsen (who didn't like the marriage) pointed out:
"The biggest problem — in the future — would be that it would be hard to play some of these same notes again; that "Aunt May is too fragile to handle the truth about Peter being Spider-Man" or that "Peter needs to protect his secret identity in order to protect his loved ones" when we've seen both of those played out in print. In the latest issue -- out this week -- there's a bad guy who is on the trail of figuring out who Spider-Man is. How much suspense is there when, just two weeks ago, Spider-Man's identity being public knowledge was the status quo? After the marriage and the efforts made to undo it, why should we, as readers, believe any relationship he has in the future will ever lead to him getting married again? They're pretty much told the readers that Peter's life is never going to progress past a certain point."
OMD isn't the illusion of change...it's the end of change. It means that Peter Parker is trapped forever in the Truman Show...only it's worse. Truman eventually got out, but Peter never will. So it's like the end of Terry Gilliam's Brazil, Peter is basically in some dream simulation of groundhog day-like loops and he can never get out. So it makes the entire story depressing no matter what the writers behind it do. 616 Continuity is tainted forever thanks to OMD.
Except that's a bold-faced lie. There are at very least 911 issues published overall in Spider-Man's 616 continuity showing Peter and MJ in a relationship, and 810 Issues, the vast majority shows them as a married couple. In terms of content, volume, material, and sales, the marriage did not lock the book into any particular kind of story. Again this is Post-Internet...Peter and Mary Jane are the greatest and best documented love story in the comics. There's way more stories showing them together than as a romance, far more so than Lois and Clark (who only got married and in relationship in the Post-Crisis era and that's far shorter than Peter and MJ). We already know that this relationship worked, that it doesn't stop Spider-Man from being Spider-Man and so on. Most Spider-Man and MJ content, in both 616 and AU is them being married and not unmarried.
Except the ones where Peter and MJ are married. Except that. The Post-OMIT lie that all the stories happened with them being single simply doesn't make sense. A marriage is an entirely different emotional commitment by its very nature. And JMD himself said Kraven's Last Hunt simply would not have the emotional impact it did without the marriage.
Exactly...Mephisto does not belong in any Spider-Man story. The only reason for him to be there Post-OMD is to remind everyone about OMD...so let's drop this faux-naive, his appearance in Miles' story has nothing to do with OMD or there's an actual story here
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