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Matt Reed
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Nah, I don't think you are, Wallace. I know a lot of people, myself included, that have always thought the idea of a married Peter Parker was a huge mistake. He's married and he has instantly become successful. No more Peter Parker who can't get a date, it's now a Peter Parker who comes home after a tough day of fighting super-villains to his hot wife. Puh-leeze.
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Wayne Osborne
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Put me in the "married equals mistake" camp too. But it seems that this is the least of his problems currently.
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Bob Simko
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...not to mention how much the situation Matt describes completely compromises Peter's convictions that make him Spider-Man!
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Rob Hewitt
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When I was a kid reading comics, if I would've been offered the chance to marry a super-model or become a super-hero, I would've picked the latter before the question was even completely asked!
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Well, I didn;t get too many dates as a youngster-well, ok until I was 14. Sure seemed like an eternity back then,.
Besides, as Spidey, I get to do both.
I think I was about 10 when he got married or 9. Was it 86-87? (First comic I ever read about in the newspaper and first I ever sent my mom to the stationary store to pick up the day it came out).
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Scott Rowland
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I prefer the stories where Peter is single and has problems with his
lovelife, but I think that's just because those are the stories I read
first. I think Peter married to a Mary Jane who is a struggling
actress/model can work, but they decided to make her a supermodel and
then a soap opera star right about the same time the marriage
happened. That's the part that didn't ring true to me.
I do agree with a point made during the Clone saga, which is that if he
had a child Peter would not continue with being a superhero. I
like how Tom DeFalco followed through with that in Spider-Girl, and had
Peter join the police department to still meet his great
responsibility. He's still fighting crooks, but doing it in a way
that he can take better care of his family.
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Victor Manuel Fernandez Patiño
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How can a non-profit super-hero, free-lance photographer and, I think he
still is, high school teacher... pay the bills of a supermodel?
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Rob Hewitt
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As an aside, while Spidey was always my favorite, it was because I bought into the idea that he would be me if I was a superhero.
I never really had the wish fulfillment thing with Spider-man-private or superhero life, married or not, he never seemed to have a great life. and his powers were never the powers I would have wished for. Superman? Yeah. He seemed perfect-perfect powers, perfect life. Spider-man? No. His powers were weird, even if useful and he could and did get beaten. The superhero who could be me, but not necessarily the Superhero I would wish to be.
That's why, as a kid, I always wanted him to get even more powerful-of course that seems stupid now, but Captain Universe Spidey didn;t seem like such a bad idea then ;)
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Rob Hewitt
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How can a non-profit super-hero, free-lance photographer and, I think he
still is, high school teacher... pay the bills of a supermodel?
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When she was a supermodel, she usually paid her own bills, much to his consternation sometimes. of course than she would lose her job due to some nut or something, and out they go.
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Dave Carr
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When she was a supermodel, Peter was earning money from a book that was published of his Spider-Man photos.
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Andrew Bitner
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I was never sold on a married Peter Parker. Marriage moves the character one step further down life's road... and the soul-searching that a teen can do (with the attendant melodrama) comes off as whiny or worse when it's a 20-something established hero who has a hot, successful wife.
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John Byrne
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I prefer the stories where Peter is single and has problems with his lovelife, but I think that's just because those are the stories I read first. I think Peter married to a Mary Jane who is a struggling actress/model can work, but they decided to make her a supermodel and then a soap opera star right about the same time the marriage happened. That's the part that didn't ring true to me. **** This is where the whole "real time" and "aging" bugaboo comes to the fore. If Parker is 16 and has money troubles and sometimes behaves recklessly -- well, that's called "being a teenager". If he's 28 and still dealing with the same stuff (in the same way!) that's called "being a loser".
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Mike Bunge
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"I'm also in the "Doesn't Work" camp when it comes to a married Spider-Man. Looks like I'm in the minority yet again. *sigh* "
I would not be at all surprised that if you took a poll you'd find a majority of Spider-Man readers (even in today's ariticially shrunken audience) who think the marriage "Doesn't Work". I think the problem is that you'd find an even bigger majority that feel killing MJ or a Spider-divorce would work even less.
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