Nick Lowe repeats Marvel's refusal to restore the Spider-marriage
ComicBook reported one of Marvel's leading editors told a reader they still don't intend to bring back Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson's marriage:
Anyway, it's more than utterly obvious that, even if the Spider-marriage were restored, that alone would not guarantee any stories to follow wouldn't be repellent, or, put another way, woke. So what's the use of asking any Marvel staffer about the marriage status quo, when the masses will not return, so long as Marvel's in the clutches of conglomeracy? There's simply no point in even asking, because as J. Michael Stracynski's run should make painfully clear in hindsight, woke politics can still intrude in some way or other. And the way he characterized MJ and Gwen Stacy was despicable.
Speak of the devil. One More Day is among the most divisive stories in the 60-year history of The Amazing Spider-Man — and one that is unlikely to be undone "any time soon," according to Marvel's Executive Spider-Man Editor Nick Lowe. The 2007 storyline spanned Amazing Spider-Man #544, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #24, Sensational Spider-Man #41, and Amazing Spider-Man #545, set in the aftermath of Marvel's Civil War crossover event and Back in Black. It was a mythos-shaking status quo reset that relaunched the character for the "Brand New Day" era: a single Spidey who never married Mary Jane, his Aunt May alive and well, and his secret identity forgotten by the world.Now that I think of it, that Peter and MJ would run afoul of such misfortune was likely Quesada's way of spiting them all the more, using the storyline of Spidey supporting a superhuman registration act as justification for dissolving the marriage. So Civil War wasn't just a subtle attack on a Republican-led administration for all the wrong reasons.
"We have mostly moved on, and I wouldn't hold my breath for an undo any time soon," Lowe wrote in response to a fan's question about One More Day in the letters section of December's Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 6) #39. "But I'll never say never."
To recap: after Spider-Man unmasked in support of the Super-human Registration Act, an assassin's bullet left his Aunt May on the brink of death. The demon Mephisto offered a desperate Spider-Man a bargain: he would save May's life in exchange for Peter and MJ's marriage.
Anyway, it's more than utterly obvious that, even if the Spider-marriage were restored, that alone would not guarantee any stories to follow wouldn't be repellent, or, put another way, woke. So what's the use of asking any Marvel staffer about the marriage status quo, when the masses will not return, so long as Marvel's in the clutches of conglomeracy? There's simply no point in even asking, because as J. Michael Stracynski's run should make painfully clear in hindsight, woke politics can still intrude in some way or other. And the way he characterized MJ and Gwen Stacy was despicable.
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