ANOTHER plot-point that has been attempted with Spider-Man that either has gone nowhere and/or was mishandled. Of course, Spider-Man is a hero who believes in the protection of every human life, even the lives of criminals. He's battled to prevent Carnage from being murdered by Venom, for instance (although he's been mum about Sentry icing Carnage, conviently, but it's NEW AVENGERS; since when does Bendis get him right?). However, there are those rare stories, much like the Superman-Phantom Zone Criminals story, that attempt to answer the question of what it may take to have Spidey take a life, and how he'd react. Both times, it's been botched.
The first time was in the 80's, in the SPIDER-MAN VS. WOLVERINE one-shot, a dark story that saw Ned Leeds assassinated and Spider-Man accidentally killing a suicidal agent woman after she fooled him into believing she was Wolverine (he'd just battled Logan in a vicious fight and blindly reacted to his "spider-sense" with a full force punch, killing her instantly). Aside for some remourse on the plane ride home, Spider-Man never mentioned or reacted to this incident again, which you'd imagine would have had long repurcussions (especially as he now is on a team with Wolverine and battles along side him as often as Superman does with Batman). The other was in the late 90's during the REVELATIONS crossover that saw the death of Ben Rielly and the return of Osborn, who became the reason for every rotten thing and unresolved storyline that existed. In the end Spider-Man throws Gobby off a rooftop with a sack full of lit pumpkin bombs and makes no attempt to save him; an outright attempted murder. Even WIZARD, before they became a complete shill for the Big Two, questioned this. After the murder of Rielly, who was like an adopted brother to Peter, an angry reaction was not OOC, but the prospect of Spidey attempting to kill Norman Osborn was never tackled directly, no angst or requestioning of morals, nothing.
If you are going to have stories that have a character act "out of character", it CAN work, if you build it up and have appropriate follow-through. However, Marvel and sometimes DC at the moment only care about "the moment", seeing build-up and follow through as inconviences at best.
This was of course before THE OTHER when Spider-Man turns into a monster and eats Morlun's face. So if JMS is planning to perhaps bring up this spectre of a story again, do I have faith it would be handled well? No. And I don't feel that lack of faith at this point is illogical. I could be wrong, but I think my lack of faith is justified, especially after several years of "big event" stories with Spidey that never are followed through, never breath, and just take away from what made him work in the first place.
Yeah right. By now its really obvious that the whole black suit is a movie tie in. Theres no change in personality at all and since May isnt kicking the bucket in SM3, shes not dying for the third time now.
May's kicked the bucket before, and Marvel's never found an idea not worth repeating, good or bad. I also recall when Peter & MJ were doing an awkward "trial seperation" even into the start of JMS' run until 2002's SPIDER-MAN came a callin' and all of a sudden they were a couple again. Joe Q was in power then and since he hates their marriage more than global terrorism, he could have nixed it then, but apparently sought to tie into the film. That is part of why seeing him harp about it now is almost comical.
You're right, it is just another shameless movie tie-in (as well as all the Sandman stories of a sudden) that both Marvel and DC have tended to do. It NEVER brings in new readers and just confounds the loyals who buy books flick or no flick.
Maybe she gets arrested. She did aid and abed a non-registered hero.
Reasonable, especially as JMS is one of those writers who was slow to the memo of "don't make the pro SHRA look too evil", having Iron Man all but brag that his N-Zone prison was "a boot stepping on someone's face, forever" (okay, that was
1984, but his actual statements were close). But I don't see that having the sort of shock value that Marvel lusts for.
Maybe I'm taking Marvel too literally about the "mourning" thing as, like others have said, Spidey still seems the same in the black suit in other books. Granted, even if he was mourning, it's not OOC for Spidey to wisecrack...
But, really, that's so minor at this point that I can overlook it. I'm actually looking forward to a Spider-Man issue again. 
