I see. I just found it funny that Dread would actually compare this "death" to those other two deaths. Talk about ****ing ridiculous.
In an attempt to mock me you missed my point entirely. My point was that when Aunt May died in the mid 90's, it was NOT from something violent and ugly, but it was from the rigors of old age (her heart, which had been weak for years as this was before USM so May was usually depicted as being in her 80's by then; nowdays most writers have unanimously depicted her maybe 20 years younger, how else could she survive donning BATTLE ARMOR with MJ 1-2 years ago!?). It was poingant as she gave a long, farewell speach to Peter that included knowing about his identity as Spider-Man and being proud. Unfortunately, this was in the middle of the Clone Saga (immediately afterward, Peter was arrested for murders Kaine committed, as they both had the same fingerprints, and Scarlet Spidey helped clear him), a story that Marvel branded as ix-nay and everything from it has to be omitted, retconned, erased, "fixed" or forgotten...even any of the rare bits that were interesting or should matter (like the fact that Peter & MJ had a child that was stillborn; you'd think that a guy who STILL obsesses about the death of his college fiance would maybe even recall the death of a first child, but F that, it "makes him seem older", as one writer or editor justified omitting it put it, much like how FF writers ignore that Johnny Storm was faithfully married to "Alicia Masters" for years IRL before she was exposed as a Skrull, putting to bed the running joke that he can never commit seriously to a relationship).
Okay, tangent alert. My point was that nowadays NO CHARACTER'S DEATH is allowed to be of natural causes and be as poingnant, least of all a supporting non-superhero. Deaths nowadays always have to be over-the-top and violent. May can't die of old age. She has to be gunned down by a hitman hired by the Kingpin, who is already in jail and really has nothing to lose and no possible recourse taken against. Probably the only character in recent memory I could recall who didn't face an ugly, violent death was The Question, who simply succumbed to cancer (and that was DC, who ironically revigorated the trend of shocking, over-the-top mutilating death to beloved characters with IDENTITY CRISIS, although to be fair, killing off Aunt May is more ballsy than killing off the wife of a character who then was an F-Lister who only had a small fanbase; having Ma Kent get shot would be compariable). We have people who claim that her death in ASM #400 was a great comic years later, who still are miffed at the "actress" baloney that Mackie came up with to revive her (and that all but abandoned her character anyway). Maybe JMS feels he has "earned the right" as he easily is the only writer who's done anything major with Aunt May as a character beyond the "doting old bitty" stereotype in maybe 20 years, but it still feels like a decision you'd make if you wanted to parody a current trend, like turning Speedball into Penance.
You expect me to have faith in JMS pulling off a story when he's dropped the ball rather recently with a few stories, and without CW, it would have become apparent he was clearly out of ideas.
JMS wants us to have some gasping emotional reaction to May getting shot, but I just feel numb. She's been killed off before in more dignified fashion, and it's become a bad joke to have death after death after death after death in comics. I literally read that panel and thought, "Oh, AGAIN!?"
I'm just wondering whether or not that jeep actually hits the guy. Pete doesn't seem so concerned about his life when he tosses that thing through the window and even then he's not even sure if the guy has powers that would allow him to withstand it. So, I still think he might wind up accidentally killing someone. You know, just like he accidentally hit MJ?
Perhaps. Heat of the moment and all that, like when he attempted to kill Osborn in REVELATIONS, or even earlier, when DD had to stop him from finishing off Sin-Eater after he killed Jean DeWolfe and almost iced Betty (S-E actually suffered some sort of permanent nerve damage from the beating Spidey gave him, I think).
I'm not saying it is impossible for this to be handled well. I'm just skeptical after blunders with it in the past and some recent Spidey blunders from JMS. When the batter is down 0-2, do you really expect the next swing to be a HR?
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