Now Quesada pins the blame on MJ
Published by Avi Green on Monday, January 28, 2008 at 11:14 AM.
From this thread on Spider-Man Crawl Space, I'm now making the discovery that Joe Quesada seems to be making his strategy for justifying the end of the Spider-Marriage to claim that Mary Jane was the one who made the decision. Which doesn't make sense, because it was a joint decision of Peter and MJ to deal with Mephisto. However, now that I think of how this was handled, and that the upcoming Jackpot is very likely to be Mary Jane, I've come to realize that in a way, MJ was written as making a decision: it could be that when she whispered something in Mephisto's ear, she was telling him that she'd like for him to make her a superbeing! Which would peg her as an opportunist. Simply awful.
This out-of-character depiction for MJ may have surfaced even earlier during Straczynski's run, when she and Peter got back together: if memory serves, she'd wanted to be more aquainted with the superhero crowd, and there was a rumor at the time that she wanted a piece of the action (translation: to be a superheroine)! It makes no sense to me, as years before, she wasn't interested in having much to do with the rest of the superhero community, no matter how much she admired them, and her main concerns were usually her job as a model.
Obviously, Quesada must think that the audience would be easier with this if it were implied that MJ made the decision rather than Peter. It reminds me of when Identity Crisis framed Jean Loring as the culprit, apparently because they thought that people would be easier with that than if Ray Palmer were the culprit.
So now I see what Quesada's little game is here too: he's trying to turn people against MJ, under the assumption that they can't tell that she's a fictional character, and that it's not her fault for whatever wrongs she supposedly does. Simply disgraceful.
This out-of-character depiction for MJ may have surfaced even earlier during Straczynski's run, when she and Peter got back together: if memory serves, she'd wanted to be more aquainted with the superhero crowd, and there was a rumor at the time that she wanted a piece of the action (translation: to be a superheroine)! It makes no sense to me, as years before, she wasn't interested in having much to do with the rest of the superhero community, no matter how much she admired them, and her main concerns were usually her job as a model.
Obviously, Quesada must think that the audience would be easier with this if it were implied that MJ made the decision rather than Peter. It reminds me of when Identity Crisis framed Jean Loring as the culprit, apparently because they thought that people would be easier with that than if Ray Palmer were the culprit.
So now I see what Quesada's little game is here too: he's trying to turn people against MJ, under the assumption that they can't tell that she's a fictional character, and that it's not her fault for whatever wrongs she supposedly does. Simply disgraceful.
Labels: bad editors, marvel comics, misogyny and racism, Spider-Man, women of marvel
