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Jason Schulman
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Just bought my first issue of Amazing Spider-Man in 20 years or so.
I liked it. I'll buy the next two issues, at least.
I am surprised that suddenly NOBODY -- not even Mary Jane or the "New" Avengers -- knows that Spider-Man is really Peter Parker. It was established a couple years before the marriage -- during Tom DeFalco's run -- that MJ knew about Peter's "other life."
Not what I would've done. I wouldn't have brought Harry Osborn back from the dead, either. But I'm interested to see what happens next.
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Bryan Eacret
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Does Norman O (the Green Goblin) still know that Peter is Spider-Man?
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Todd Douglas
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If Wacker and the two-page "new status quo" spread are to be taken at their word...nope.
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Bryan Eacret
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I haven't read Spider-Man in years, but I remember the Green Goblin
knowing who Spider-Man is was one of the essential parts of their
conflicts.
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Todd Douglas
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True. Here's Wacker's statement from that Newsarama interview I mentioned earlier, beginning with the part I excerpted and going into further detail:
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It was around that time that I made the call that the decision had to be a simple one: From this point forward, no one knows Peter’s secret ID. Whatever came before still happened, but as of now no one remembers and any evidence has been modified or erased somehow. To me that was the most direct solution.
Obviously, I knew this would hit up against some back issue logic and interfere with how some stories had played out, so again we picked at the same wounds, going down the road once again.
All of it: Daredevil, Harry and Gwen, Aunt May, Mary Jane. It was discussed and discussed and discussed (more than some folks are giving us credit for. I mean, at the very least do ya think Slott and Brevoort do something like this lightly?).
However, at a certain point it‘s my job to make sure comics come out and stories get told, so once again I made the call that no one remembers Pete’s ID any longer and the chips were going to have to fall. So as far as that particular decision is a crime, I’m the guilty one. |
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Andrew W. Farago
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For what it's worth, I think the 2007 Marvel Holiday Special that my wife and I wrote is the first story to reflect the post-One More Day continuity. We'd written the whole 16-page story, turned it in to our editor, gotten approval on it, then were told to rewrite the ending and a few bits in the middle, since we were told that Wolverine wasn't allowed to demonstrate any knowledge of Spider-Man's secret identity in the story, plus we had to cut Mary Jane out of the final scene.
Steven Wacker must have checked out the story before it saw print and given our editor his input. The fact that Marvel didn't even want a one-shot issue that most of the hardcore Spider-Man fans were going to pass up conflicting with the new continuity tells me that they're taking all of these new rules very seriously.
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Jason Schulman
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Here's hoping that it turns out that "Norman Osborn" is really a Skrull, rendering the whole matter moot...
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Chad Carter
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I'm reading that paragraph and thinking you need to go read Watchman if you want some Rorschach.
I agree with Matt, get the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man back. I'm going to give it a try.
Not really looking for Rorschach, but it's better than Iron Spider or other atrocities, and it would be a logical progression of events. I havent' read this "OMD", but surely Spider-Man acting completely nuts for several months is no worse than trading his "soul" with the Devil. Come on.
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Todd Douglas
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I agree. That was a great book. PAD was doing some good work there, in light of or in spite of what some consider to be a wrong-headed "status quo." First Spider-Man book that I've found to be enjoyable since Untold Tales folded.
What?
That's not what you guys meant?
Well, then, in the words of Emily Litella..."Never mind."
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Richard Stevens
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There's two Mary Janes now? Closer to paradise than ever!
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That's just speculation on my part, Richard.
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Francesco Vanagolli
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Greg Kirkman:
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| And, on a more altruistic level, I want the present-day Spider-Man to be in good shape for the sake of all those young readers who deserve a chance to enjoy his adventures, just as I did as a kid, and just as many kids did before me. Not the adventures of the fraud who's been passed off as Spider-Man for a while now. |
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Bravo, Greg!
And I'm still waiting to read ASM #545...
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