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purely for the people who don't frequent the marvel forum
I've been waiting a year for this moment, finally spidey fans get a little payback
HELL ****ING YES!!!!
Marvels Civil War event has not been kind to Peter Parker.
It stripped the secret from his secret identity, made him the number one target for half the heroes (and most of the villains) in the Marvel Universe and generally turned his already chaotic life into a complete and total shambles.
That sort of stuff, however, Peter can handle. Hes a superhero, after all, and superheroes handle skull-crushing adversity on a daily basis.
What Peter cant suffer, the Civil War casualty with which his quick-witted resiliency cannot deal, is the impending death of his beloved Aunt May. Gunned down by agents of the Kingpin in retaliation for Peters crimefighting career, May Parker lies unconscious in a hospital bed, sustained by a web of wires, tubes and sensors.
She is going to die, and Peterhelpless, hopelessis going mad.
Hes very much at his wits end, says longtime Spider-Man scribe J. Michael Straczynski. Under even the best of conditions, confronting the reality that May might die would be nearly enough to unhinge him. Add to that his sense of personal responsibility, that her injury is his fault, that it would not have happened but for his decisions, and he comes almost completely off the rails.
Hes in a very dark, very ominous place, both thrashing in the throes of the inevitable, and lashing out at anyone in his way. Hes basically made the decision that he will do whatever he has to, no matter what, if it can save May.
Peters quest for salvation is the driving force in One More Day, a four-issue storyline running through the Spider-titles this August starting in Amazing Spider-Man #544.. The arc, the last of Straczynskis six-year Spider-Man run, willin the words of Editor-in-Chief (and One More Day penciler) Joe Quesadabe very controversial, settling the issue of Spider-Mans much-maligned marriage once and for all and bringing the Web-Head face to face with some of the Marvel Universes heaviest heavyweights.
When medical science throws up its hands and says, in essence, Theres nothing more we can do, Peter goes outside of the medical establishment for a second opinion...to those who walk in the spaces between whats known, and whats not, on the chance, however slim, that they may have a solution to her condition, Straczynski explains. That search takes him to some very dark and scary parts of the Marvel Universe.
May is very precious to Peter, adds Quesada, so you can only imagine what a guy like hima guy whos seen characters like Galactus come to Planet Earthmight do, the sort of ends he might go to try and keep the inevitable from happening.
The first stop is Stark Tower, the place where Peters Civil War madness began.
Because Peter is on the run, Straczynski explains, he is without money, without insurance or resources to pay for Aunt Mays continued care. Before he can go out and try to find a solution, he has to know shes being properly cared for on even the most fundamental level. This brings him to a confrontation with Stark. Though he and Peter have fallen out, Peters perspective is that Stark owes him, and certainly owes Maythat Stark cannot turn his back on her.
To that end, Peter takes him on
And yet the concept of quesada [blackout]finally sorting out the issue of the marriage[/blackout] has me worried. Seriously man, leave it alone
I've been waiting a year for this moment, finally spidey fans get a little payback
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