Hobgoblin
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The title of his comic is Spider-Man.
Touche, sir.
The title of his comic is Spider-Man.
I'm just saying; for even the smartest man to make a decision with his member rather than his head or heart is not entirely unheard of.
I have no room to talk, having moved across state lines to rekindle a relationship with a woman who dumped me 12 years ago.
The "I Remember Gwen" story in The Amazing Spider-man 365, August. It describes why Mary Jane will always be in Gwen's shadow, and why she has to be the best wife ever for everyone's favourite wall-crawling hero.
EDIT: It just makes me mad that Marvel changed everything about the marriage.
I just went back and re-read that. Good story.
I have to point out the now-ironic thing she said at the end of it though:
"I wouldn't trade our marriage for anything in the world!"
...except for Aunt May's life, right, MJ?
The "I Remember Gwen" story in The Amazing Spider-man 365, August. It describes why Mary Jane will always be in Gwen's shadow, and why she has to be the best wife ever for everyone's favourite wall-crawling hero.
EDIT: It just makes me mad that Marvel changed everything about the marriage.
The "I Remember Gwen" story in The Amazing Spider-man 365, August. It describes why Mary Jane will always be in Gwen's shadow, and why she has to be the best wife ever for everyone's favourite wall-crawling hero.
EDIT: It just makes me mad that Marvel changed everything about the marriage.
The truth about Gwen is that Peter doesn't remember who she really was anymore, just that she died because she was his girlfriend. Mary Jane is not in her shadow, and I'm tired of writers trying to tell me she is. Gwen was a horrible boring ass character whose death I welcomed as she had annoyed me to death already. Let the boring, utterly uninteresting character rest in peace. Unless you're going add to the character and maybe explain why she was the person we knew, then leave her boring @$$ to rot.
Well, being one of the few around here who actually read about Gwen in comics when she was alive and seeing her & Peter interact, methinks you assume a wee bit too much...
And you're passing quite the judgement on a LOT of good writers by saying they didn't know about "their" relationship...
And a "pro-crybaby bubble"? What the hell is that? Did it come with your "I wish I had an MJ blow up doll"?
Give me a break... speak to me like a grown-up as opposed to your peers in 5th grade...
We've all read the early ASM issues... how can you not see how much Gwen means to Peter? The only reason Peter and MJ made it as far as they did was because MJ revealed to Peter that she had known his secret... he would have never told her. I'm not saying that MJ didn't turn out to be an important person in Peter's life, but it's awfully presumptuous to think that she was the "one".
Yes... Gerry Conway had Gwen killed because he couldn't write her character properly, because she became a 2 dimensional crybaby AFTER her father died... she had some depth prior to that... and even after Gwen died, it's not like MJ took over... after some time, Peter developped "rebound" feelings and proposed... only to have MJ run away and be gone from the books for FIVE years (1978-1983). Roger Stern finally brought her back not to be Peter's love, but because she was a good friend and an old supporting cast member, something good writers do when writing a book... work with the book's rich history... even when DeFalco told us that she knew his secret, it's not like they fell in "love"... heck, they were hardly dating when Peter suddenly "proposes" again... yeah, that's some really heartfelt love right there...
You can believe what you want and live in your delusional world, but at the end of the day, Peter's a born loser never destined to be with ANY woman because the Spectre of Spider-Man will always come between them.
And you can take that to the bank, sonny...
This thinking that Peter must be a loser is major force behind a hell of a lot that is wrong with modern Spider-Man stories. Peter is meant to be able to get married. He's marrying type. He was destined to marry Mary Jane and he did. Also, you argument would apply to him marrying Gwen too.
Peter Parker, while the family man that he so desperately wants to be, simply cannot be because of the overwhelming guilt that drives him to be Spider-Man.
Yes... the Spectre of Spider-Man would have come between him and Gwen, just like it did with his first love, Betty Brant, and ultimately, it came between him and Mary Jane.
Just my two cents...
Peter Parker, while the family man that he so desperately wants to be, simply cannot be because of the overwhelming guilt that drives him to be Spider-Man.
Yes... the Spectre of Spider-Man would have come between him and Gwen, just like it did with his first love, Betty Brant, and ultimately, it came between him and Mary Jane.
Just my two cents...
Doesn't help that JMS took away from her.The truth about Gwen is that Peter doesn't remember who she really was anymore, just that she died because she was his girlfriend. Mary Jane is not in her shadow, and I'm tired of writers trying to tell me she is. Gwen was a horrible boring ass character whose death I welcomed as she had annoyed me to death already. Let the boring, utterly uninteresting character rest in peace. Unless you're going add to the character and maybe explain why she was the person we knew, then leave her boring @$$ to rot.