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Mike Bunge
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By the way, M****l's offering up an official explanation on the whole unmasking thing. There's a two-page Romita Jr. spread in an upcoming Spider-comic detailing the new status quo. In it, the editorial caption explains that NO ONE knows who Spider-Man is. They remember that he did unmask during CIVIL WAR...but no one can quite remember who it was under the mask.
Wow.
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Fred J Chamberlain
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... I wonder if they remembered to tape the unmasking. ;)
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Glenn Greenberg
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I read the 2-page spread.
So now, apparently, even Norman doesn't know.
Isn't Peter going to wonder why he can't remember the circumstances
under which Gwen died? Since he's still carrying all that guilt over her
death and all, she must still be on his mind a lot.
I mean, the Green Goblin showed up at Peter's apartment, found Gwen
there instead of Peter, and snatched her away and took her to the George
Washington Bridge.
Why would the Goblin have gone to Peter's apartment if, as far as Peter
and the rest of the world are concerned now, no one knows that Peter is
Spider-Man?
I have to wonder what Peter knows and remembers about Gwen's death
now. Does he remember things differently from the way they happened in
ASM 121-122?
Yeesh.
I wouldn't want to be a Spider-Man editor at a convention in front of a
crowd of people right now.
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John Byrne
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Maybe he's also forgotten Gwen. Like everybody else should.
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Glenn Greenberg
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<<<Maybe he's also forgotten Gwen. Like everybody else should.>>>
Agreed!
I wouldn't have included her at all in that 2-page spread. But there she is,
prominently displayed, standing right next to MJ as the OTHER great love of
Peter's life and whose death he holds himself responsible.
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Joe Hollon
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"I read the 2-page spread."
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What 2-page spread is this referring to? I looked back a couple pages in this thread and didn't see anything.
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Glenn Greenberg
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Go to Newsarama.
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Todd Douglas
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Yay! Newsarama finally fixed theirs, to provide the clear version:
http://www.newsarama.com/marvelnew/Spider-Man/BND/StatusQuo. html
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Stephen Robinson
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Wow, none of these changes are logical extensions of the dissolution of the marriage. It's sort of like what DC used to do, when big events would be an "excuse" for editors to erase things from continuity they didn't like. "Batman is an urban legend who was never in the JLA as a result of Zero Hour." Huh?
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Andrew W. Farago
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I guess it says something about the overall love people have for Spider-Man that everyone can still get really, really worked up over these events. The Clone Saga was the first mini-reset to Spider-Man's life, then there was another one immediately post-Clone Saga, and another when The Final Chapter/Chapter One hit, followed by The Other...a full-scale reboot seems like it was the obvious next step, really. I'd just as soon have everyone ignore the fact that Mephisto was involved with it so that the creative teams can focus on telling good Spider-Man stories without worrying about whatever repercussions One More Day was going to bring about.
Superman's probably pushed the reset button a half-dozen times since Crisis on Infinite Earths, and readers have managed to cope with that, so I think they'll get used to Spidey's new status quo before long, too.
And, just for fun, here are the Superman resets I can think of, post-Crisis:
*Zero Hour
*Our Worlds at War (new Big Bang that reset bits and pieces of the DCU)
*Return to Krypton (revealing that Superman's origin may not have happened the same way it did in the Man of Steel mini-series)
*Superman #200 ended with another Big Bang that reset history, too, didn't it?
*Birthright (the new "official" post-Crisis origin, supplanting Man of Steel)
*Infinite Crisis/One Year Later
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Paulo Pereira
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Marvel's fixed theirs, too (click the thumbnail).
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Brad Brickley
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Well, I'm happy with it. Got him back where I think he should be. Not the exact way I'd do it, but I think the comic companies need to get their characters back to a general audience. I hope they can keep him the high flying neighborhood Spider-Man.
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