Venomaniac
Baxter Gaxton
- Joined
- Sep 14, 2008
- Messages
- 137
- Reaction score
- 0
- Points
- 11
This is from the Stan Lee Meets hardcover edtition. In an interview with Marvel Spotlight about Stan's work, including the comics strips and the Spider-marriage.
-NOTE: This was in 2006, and the Peter-MJ breakup was merely a rumor of their seperating.
As for if this is good fro pro-marriage or anti-marriage...judge for yourself. it can be interpreted either way imo
SPOTLIGHT: The marriage of Peter Parker and Mary Jane was an event the origins of which were in your strip. What do you think about the marriage between peter and Mary Jane? What did you think about it then, when it happened, and what do you think about it now? I don't know if you're aware, but there is currently a big hubbub about perhaps splitting them up.
STAN: I think the marriage was great. I think it needed that after all those years.
SPOTLIGHT: You don't think it made Spider-Man too grown-up, or do you think it was time to do it eventually?
STAN: Well, you could be right. Maybe I should have always kept Spider-Man a teenager. In the Peanuts strip, little Charlie Brown never grew up. But maybe I was too influenced by fan mail, but I would get so much mail. "Spider-Man and Mary Jane have been dating for a million years, and when the hell are they gonna marry- and how long is he going to be in college?" and all of that. And I began to think, "Well, maybe they're right. Maybe if you keep something exactly the same, year after year, the fans will get tired of it. Maybe you need a new jolt every so often." So I remember there was one point, I took him out of high school and I put him in college. Then I had him get married. Now a million years later, they may be thinking of getting a divorce...I think probably that's the way to do it, because eventually you run out of...
SPOTLIGHT: Well, the characters lasted regardless, so perhaps it was a good idea.
STAN: Yeah. And don't forget, you're doing twelve issues a month. That's like a little movie each month, and if it's the same, each story is different- I know they're not the same, each story is different- but still, it's the same relationships month after month. Arthur Conan Doyle was able to get away with it with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, but he was only doing, like, a book a year, and he only did a handful of books. I think that's what happened to Superman. You know, there was a time when nobody was buying Superman comics. It was just the same thing over time. So I think they're handling it right, now.
-NOTE: This was in 2006, and the Peter-MJ breakup was merely a rumor of their seperating.
As for if this is good fro pro-marriage or anti-marriage...judge for yourself. it can be interpreted either way imo
SPOTLIGHT: The marriage of Peter Parker and Mary Jane was an event the origins of which were in your strip. What do you think about the marriage between peter and Mary Jane? What did you think about it then, when it happened, and what do you think about it now? I don't know if you're aware, but there is currently a big hubbub about perhaps splitting them up.
STAN: I think the marriage was great. I think it needed that after all those years.
SPOTLIGHT: You don't think it made Spider-Man too grown-up, or do you think it was time to do it eventually?
STAN: Well, you could be right. Maybe I should have always kept Spider-Man a teenager. In the Peanuts strip, little Charlie Brown never grew up. But maybe I was too influenced by fan mail, but I would get so much mail. "Spider-Man and Mary Jane have been dating for a million years, and when the hell are they gonna marry- and how long is he going to be in college?" and all of that. And I began to think, "Well, maybe they're right. Maybe if you keep something exactly the same, year after year, the fans will get tired of it. Maybe you need a new jolt every so often." So I remember there was one point, I took him out of high school and I put him in college. Then I had him get married. Now a million years later, they may be thinking of getting a divorce...I think probably that's the way to do it, because eventually you run out of...
SPOTLIGHT: Well, the characters lasted regardless, so perhaps it was a good idea.
STAN: Yeah. And don't forget, you're doing twelve issues a month. That's like a little movie each month, and if it's the same, each story is different- I know they're not the same, each story is different- but still, it's the same relationships month after month. Arthur Conan Doyle was able to get away with it with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, but he was only doing, like, a book a year, and he only did a handful of books. I think that's what happened to Superman. You know, there was a time when nobody was buying Superman comics. It was just the same thing over time. So I think they're handling it right, now.
What a dynamic signature!! 
