The Amazing Spider-Man

[bryanss3]

I'd like it better if they were just organized better and kind of explained. like how ARMOR was part of SHIELD but now that SHIELD is HAMMER it doesn't have control over ARMOR for some reason. speaking of things that don't make sense the Superhero Registration Act didn't work at all. Every hero on Earth we're reading about is unregistered right now and none of them have been arrested in any way. how exactly did the bad guys win in Dark Reign? Sure they have the upper hand, but they sure didn't win. I mean how hard is it really to capture the New Avengers? they're all in NY. It seems like Tony Stark was tougher than Osborn in that department.

plus in ASM it only mattered till he started getting framed for murder.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

I'd like it better if they were just organized better and kind of explained. like how ARMOR was part of SHIELD but now that SHIELD is HAMMER it doesn't have control over ARMOR for some reason. speaking of things that don't make sense the Superhero Registration Act didn't work at all. Every hero on Earth we're reading about is unregistered right now and none of them have been arrested in any way. how exactly did the bad guys win in Dark Reign? Sure they have the upper hand, but they sure didn't win. I mean how hard is it really to capture the New Avengers? they're all in NY. It seems like Tony Stark was tougher than Osborn in that department.

plus in ASM it only mattered till he started getting framed for murder.

well if im not mistaken, when iron man left shield he stole alot of info on heroes (like identities and loved ones info) and took it with him, so osborn couldn't have it.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

As I understand it, SHIELD, ARMOR, STRIKE, and SWORD were all UN organizations with different mandates but basically under the same umbrella. GRAMPA is the Global Reaction Agency for Mysterious Paranormal Activity and is an international organization. SHIELD lost its US funding and dissolved.

The US created HAMMER to take SHIELD's place, but only in the US. GRAMPA sort of fills in for SHIELD now in the international community.

SWORD still exists, probably still as a UN organization. According to an interview with Kieron Gillen, the writer of the upcoming SWORD series, Agent (still not sure why that's not "Director") Brand was too instrumental to defeating the Skrulls for the US to approve cutting SWORD off the way they did SHIELD (since it was SHIELD's then-leader Iron Man and his tech/methods that were scapegoated as the big failure that allowed the Skrulls to be so effective). So, until we hear differently, SWORD appears to be operating just as it did before, albeit on a smaller budget because the US is primarily relying on HAMMER now.

I don't really know what's going on with ARMOR or STRIKE now.

 

[bryanss3]

well if im not mistaken, when iron man left shield he stole alot of info on heroes (like identities and loved ones info) and took it with him, so osborn couldn't have it.

I didn't even mean from Personal info. Like if you run HAMMER how hard should it be to find Luke Cage or the rest of the New Avengers? The Mighty Avengers are a whole different story with Pym and the Negative zone and all that craziness. Thats one of those things that bothered me about American Son. Osborn had HAMMER and the Dark Avengers at his disposal but by the end Spider-Man got away. Way to use your resources Norm.

 

[theunseenmarvel]

Speaking of the registration act, what exactly hapend to spidey leading up to Brand New Day?

 

[spideyboy_1111]

Speaking of the registration act, what exactly hapend to spidey leading up to Brand New Day?

we talking the missing 100 days? or back in black?

 

[bryanss3]

Well Back in Black is when he put on the black costume and hung out with AC/DC. jk=)

 

[DACMAN]

theres alot of legacy villains he's got when you think about it...
6-"kravens"
12-goblins
3 mysterios
3 scorpions ( if u count ninja)
2 sand people (quicksand)
4 ocks (otto, carolyn, the 6 arm dude in JMS's run, the kid that had octo arms)
like 10 symbiotes (who have names)
4 vultures

You forgot Sandstorm. Who was actually pretty cool.

 

[Kitsune]

Wasn't quicksand more of a Thor foe?

 

[mre]

So you're saying they're actually trying to piss fans off now and it isn't even an accident anymore?

No that's not what I am saying at all. I am saying they are trying to portray Peter as someone who can still make mistakes.

 

[BlackLantern]

not every fan hates the current status of ASM with the rage of a thousand suns

 

[bryanss3]

I ate 1000 suns for breakfast this morning. It sounds more powerful than it actually is, but damn the OJ was good.

 

[theunseenmarvel]

What I meant more specifically was how the hell did be make contact with Mephisto?

 

[theunseenmarvel]

Plus what were the terms of the deal he made, what does Mephisto get in return for bringing aunt may back to life and making everyone forget about spidey revealing his secret identity? Another thing, why did he get rid of his natural ability to produce his own webbing?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Mephisto got Peter and MJ's love. I guess it doesn't matter to him that they don't know it's gone and therefore it doesn't haunt them or anything.

 

[bryanss3]

oh you're new.

-Mephisto's deal
The deal as we know it now with the information given is. Peter knowns he did a mind wipe we don't know if he knows how it happened. It appears MJ knows everything. The deal was to erase the marriage thats what Mephisto got out of it. just the pure pleasure of erasing a holy comic union we know as marriage.

-The 100 days
what happened in those 100 days since is still a mystery which will eventually be revealed at some point.

-The new Secret Identity/mindwipe
No one has known his identity until a Fantastic Four 2 parter where he revealed it to them again and kind of explained how the mind wipe works and then in an issue of New Avengers He also revealed it to the group. In short this is how the mind wipe works. Everyone remembers Spider-Man and things they've done, but don't remember Peter Parker at all. Any clues that clearly point out Peter is Spider-Man will be completely oblivious to them, but If he is in the Spidey costume unmasked everything will come back and They'll remember Peter as a person.

-Where the organic webbing went?
The organic webbing being gone hasn't been explained, but I think it will be at some point in 2010. On Joe Quesada's blog a while back I remember he mentioned something with Spidey that they need to explain but they won't be doing it till next year. I'd assume its the Other stuff considering they're still using Morlun as a character in the Marvel Universe.

If there is anything else you're unclear on most of us on here are pretty good at filling people in so feel free to ask.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Well Back in Black is when he put on the black costume and hung out with AC/DC. jk=)

 

[farmernudie]

And with NWTD...or as I like to refer to it as...."BROTHERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING BLACK SUIT".....the black suit is on Gargan, while Eddie gets a new suit but uses way too much bleach on it. Then Peter tries to get them all to hang together for a special bonding road trip.

 

[SpideyInATree]

Really dug # 602 this week. Glad that Alberti was off as artist. Kitson's artwork was so much easier on my eyes and definitely helped with the creepiness of the whole Chameleon series of scenes. Loved what Van Lente has done with the Chameleon character. Very extra creepy vibe to him and has definitely made him dangerous. Also, Chameleon mentioned being at the May Parker/JJJ Sr. wedding too, wonder who he posed as. t:

Spoiler

Lots of stuff went on in this issue and I had such a wonderful classic Spider-Man vibe. The undercover cop as Slyde with them trying to capture Spider-man. Pete getting set up with a job by JJJ Sr. working for JJJ Jr. as a staff photographer. Good scene between Mary Jane and Harry. Loved the little twist as to who the Chameleon was disguised as when he captured Peter. Just lots of good stuff. And a classic Spider-Man cliffhanger that the book has always been known for.

Just having a LOT of fun with this book each and every week. And I really hope that Van Lente stays around the Spidey brain trust for a while. I just really dig his work. His Mister Negative miniseries is really awesome and he fleshed out that character so much. Great, great stuff. Can't wait for next week to see how Pete got himself out of that...acidic...situation!

 

[Blader5489]

What I meant more specifically was how the hell did be make contact with Mephisto?

Mephisto came to him.

-The 100 days
what happened in those 100 days since is still a mystery which will eventually be revealed at some point.

I don't think that 100 day period is really any mystery. Pete was laying low that whole time so it's not like he did much, and we also know that during that time Harry returned and helped rebuild May's house.

I think the 100 day gap was just a way of getting ASM caught up with the rest of the MU, since BiB/OMD were all happening immediately after Civil War and most other books had moved past that era.

 

[farmernudie]

Originally Posted by theunseenmarvel
What I meant more specifically was how the hell did be make contact with Mephisto?

The devil keeps track of dying elderly old ladies, and if you're married, he'll trade you your marriage and make old ladies live longer.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I guess God doesn't have a monopoly on working in mysterious ways anymore.

 

[bryanss3]

Mephisto came to him.



I don't think that 100 day period is really any mystery. Pete was laying low that whole time so it's not like he did much, and we also know that during that time Harry returned and helped rebuild May's house.

I think the 100 day gap was just a way of getting ASM caught up with the rest of the MU, since BiB/OMD were all happening immediately after Civil War and most other books had moved past that era.

well they said they'd eventually reveal stuff from those 100, but I think it's more like one or two specific things within that period.

 

[DACMAN]

the devil keeps track of dying elderly old ladies, and if you're married, he'll trade you your marriage and make old ladies live longer.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!t: t:

And remove there memory of it for no apparent reason.

 

[Saved]

The devil keeps track of dying elderly old ladies, and if you're married, he'll trade you your marriage and make old ladies live longer.

Just make it "old people". Look at Crash Simpson.