Dragon said:
There are certain things you have to accept as par for the course. Spider-Man is a superhero. He fights supervillains. You have to accept that at face value or you might as well not read the comics at all. But it's a different matter altogether when you're talking about redundancy when nothing happens at all. The Marriage has stayed in the same place, with the same exact action occuring over the past twenty years. Even when you get to Spidey's 50th battle with Doc Ock or whomever, there are still some variances that keep it exciting.
And I'm sorry- but reading Spidey's 44 year history in two years isn't the same as being a long term fan. But that's neither here nor there. My point was only that the fans who believe that Peter will turn to dust if MJ isn't around tend to be fans who haven't been around that long.
Okay, yes, Spider-Man is a hero, so he has to fight villians. okay. But he will have to fight that same villians again, sometimes over and over. See, It happaned with, example, Venom, The reason I don't like him. He was in the comics a lot, way too much, a lot. He kept coming back. he kept having the same stupid reason for comig back. Same with other villians, they rob someone or something, spidey comes to save the day, they end up in jail, they either get let out or break out, and once again, they rob someone or something. Please tell me that's not something you look forward to every month. I'm not, so what, I should give up reading comics because that's what they are mostly about? Fighting this guy or that guy month after month? No. Over the last 44 years, spidey has been more than about fighting, It's been about the drama. That's what I look forward to when I read comics.
You see, Peter Parker was in high school, met a few girls, had family problems, had work problems. Went to college, met a serious girlfriend, family problems, work problems. Dropped out of school, got married, family problems, work problems. In within all of this, he was Spidey fighting electro, venom, oct, one or the other goblins and more. My point is, the fighting barely changed. The excuses got old. Once in a blue moon they had a new villian (I mean now because stan the man lee came out with a new bad guy back in the day every issue, just about) The things that happened in his life are the only things that haved moved forward. He grew as a character, and not in age, but as a person.
You know why I like reading FNSM and Sen? Because we fans got a LONG break from the usual villains, so when they popped back up, we got excited. Mysterio, Molten man, Chameleon... Hell, dude, the freaking Will-o'-the-wisp! when the hell is the last time
YOU saw him? a while, right? Exactly. I get that there has to be a certain rotation of villians, but for me personally, It gets boring. Basically because it more than likely will end the same.
And about the marriage, I agree that nothing has happened in a while, I'm not blind. But why SHOULD something have to happen? Better yet, what COULD happen. Have some girl try to break them up because she wants him? That'll last a whille, but for how long before it gets tired? some people say they should've never gotten married in the first place, Peter was too young. So we see him dating around for a while, but why? SO HE COULD FIND SOMEONE TO SPEND THE REST OF HIS LIFE WITH,
ANYWAY. Peter is not a swinger, he is a family man, always has been, always will be, unless, of course, they change his character drastically like DC did to a certain batgirl. Kill MJ, so we'll have to deal with a sad Peter for god knows how long. Better yet, Kill MJ, so Peter gets over it in 6 months our time, that's realistic. The best thing in my eyes for marvel to do is just leave it alone, or change it without upsetting the cosmos.
What do I mean? MJ is there, says a few lines, helps Peter when he's injured, this could be done in less then five pages an issue. This is pretty much how it is at the moment. Or, Don't have MJ in the comics but every few issues. That's kool. Or, Have them separate because they're not in love with one another anymore, or because they can't handle being married any longer, but could be friends. I honestly could care less if they're married anymore. They could be best friends, though. MJ and Peter will still love each other in a different way, but each go home to someone else at night. She'll still be there to do the things they do, everything but have sex, though. (Most friends don't have sex with each other... that's what I hope at least because it messes the friendship up a bit) I like my last idea, it could probably work. And guess what, this could be a perfectly good way out of the marriage. It's real enough. Anything, really, to save MJ as I am a fan of hers. I guess I'm done with that topic, moving on to a new one.
Now I need to ask a question. Peter Parker, Nerd, married Mary Jane Watson, who happened to be his friend and, down the road, became a supermodel. "Peter Parker married a model. He is suppose to be an everyman. Everymen don't married supermodel." Yeah... sure... that's not my problem, though, as I hear it alot. Is it impossible to imaging peter getting married to MJ because she's a supermodel? Is she too famous? Is it because she's too pretty to want to be with an "everyman" like Peter? Really, I need to know because yeah, she's supermodel, but he's spider-man. It would A cold day in hell before she became more famous than him. Not even in our world, but in 616. And if it's because she's too pretty, than that's bull. I hate to say it, I really do, But Gwen damn Stacey is more pure, and 10x prettier, and I never heard anyone complain about that. She was no supermodel, but she was also a bore. Not knocking her character, but she had nothing going for her. Maybe if they wanted to make her a school teacher, counselor, something, I'd be into her. She was never going to make it as a scientist because then, marvel would have to put effort into her character, and we know how much they hate doing that. Oh, and she was too much drama for my liking. I know I like drama, but she was just too much, but please don't think I dislike her. She was cool enough, I just didn't see anywhere for her in the future. That was mostly marvel's fault for not developing her character enough for me. I hope people will believe me when I say this, but i'm unbiased. I'm not more favored towards MJ than Gwen, or other girls. I'm all for seeing where anything can go. I look forward to change, good as it may be, bad as it may be.
Now for my parting words, Will I get upset if they kill someone close to Peter? No, not anymore. It's something I hope they do because, even though it's been done before, sometimes to the same character, it hasn't been done in a while. Maybe good stories will come out of it. Maybe we'll see things one way, but something else really happened and what we saw was just to fool us. So there's no need for anyone to get upset about it, and if someone does, oh well. Not everyone will be happy about something that has happened to their favorite character, and there's nothing you can do about it because for every 10 people who hates something, 2 people will like it. And lucky guys like me can be on a middle ground. I have a feeling that this won't be the last time I have to respond to something in this thread, mainly because I kept losing my points back there and may have to make sense of them later, so I'll be signing off.
Kevin D. Smith.