dkamphaus43
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I dunno if there's a personal bias towards MJ, "personal" sounds a bit much in regards to a fictional character, but there's no doubt an effort to make Peter available to date, but to maintain his friendship with MJ.
Maintain his friendship with her? What're you talking about? As I said in a previous post, she genuinely doesn't seem to even like him anymore. And they have to write her that way because it's the only way to justify keeping them apart. I think it's safe to say that the days of them being friends is a thing of the past.
Feel free to agree/disagree, but there's an old school of thought that Spider-Man as a character, the one that first appeared in the 60s and 70s, doesn't work in a long term committed relationship, because the Spectre of Spider-Man will always interfere
Sorry, but that really just sounds like the same misguided BS that Marvel has been relentlessly trying to force onto the fans for the past decade. Peter going from one failed relationship to another endlessly adds nothing to the series or the character. Nothing! In fact if anything, I would say it detracts, because it eventually just makes him look like a pathetic idiot who can't get his act together. You can do that for a little while in the beginning while he's still a young student and trying to find his way, but eventually somethings gotta give. I personally have no interest in reading about a guy who keeps failing and failing in the same area over and over and over again and not doing anything to try and take charge or change his life. If that's really what the premise is supposed to be, then you can count me out big time.
... The original wedding was a sales ploy because Stan was doing it in the strips... Read the books from that era, it was all forced.
I have read the books from that era, I'm quite familiar with them. And while there is some truth to the fact that the wedding ceremony itself was rushed to coincide with the newspaper strip, that's not to say that there wasn't anything in the books at the time to justify a union between the 2 characters. Even a blind man could've seen that there was clearly a lot going on between them. As many people have pointed out about that era, the 2 characters might not have been officially dating at the time, but they might as well have been. But people like Quesada and Slott try to make it sound like there was absolutely no unrequited love or conflicted feelings or unspoken longing for each other or anything at all like that between them at the time just before the wedding took place, which is complete revisionist bull.
Eliminating the marriage/relationship was a step in the right direction imo.
It may have been ugly, but at least MJ didn't have to unnecessarily get killed.
Considering how badly her character has been handled since then, I sometimes wonder if it might've been better if she had been.
But to answer your question, I find mostly ALL Marvel characters being butchered currently, similarly to what was going on in the late 90s.
Okay, that i'll definitely agree with you on.