The Ororo/T'Challa marriage was ridiculously overpromoted and it was Marvel that chose to call it "The Wedding of the Century", not I? And guess what? At the last minute, perhaps smelling that just leaving it at that would cause it to be "underordered", they threw on a CW tagline, and that did the trick to boost it to 40,000 copies or something. I guess they were friends before but the decision to have them get married was done in a rushed manner, with retcons and overreaction galore. They went from barely interacting once every 2 years to suddenly being destined solemates thanks to one ongoing and a mini that "embellished" MTU #100.
My point was that Joe Q fails to see this act as a cheap publicity stunt because it, of course, was his idea, but is so quick to claim the Parker marriage in 1987 was and has no worth, and is the bane to Spider-Man's existance. It's not. The bane to Spider-Man's existance is the writing out of his supporting cast, the inability for creators to create some more members to that cast (especially as Peter is a teacher, a goldmine for characters), and the utter loss of any social life for Peter as all he does is sleep with his wife, talk to his Aunt, and be Spider-Man. Then throw in the fact that he is an Avenger and lives in a penthouse with ROBOTIC BIRDS and you can see far greater problems than the fact that at 25-26 years of age, Peter is married to the woman who for 19 years real time, in various different mediums than comics, has been depicted as the love of his life. I get angry over this because the longer Joe Q or anyone else fails to see what REALLY plagues the Spider-Franchise, the longer it goes unfixed, and the longer they use band-aid solutions like crossovers to delay the inevitable. Between THE OTHER and the CW prelude/current tie-ins, ASM has relied on crossovers for sales for about a year. I see a repeating pattern.
As for "Capt. Marvel", death seems to be overrated these days. Not sure how it could be Quasar as Annihilus seemed to frag him pretty good, but stranger things have happened. Maybe if it's the REAL Mar-Vell, he's coming back to see about all these kids he's gained post-mortum.
And I do see the "new Thunderbolts" as a bit to milk some VILLIANS UNITED/SECRET SIX thunder, although to be fair DC had the Suicide Squad on the shelf for a long time and was quite gritty in it's heyday. But I never cared for the Thunderbolts before, so I don't now.
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