[Spoilers] Spiderman: One More Day...

[Cthulhudrew]

Of course, Spidey should never have revealed his identity. That accomplished nothing positive. I didn't read Civil War, but I can't imagine what would constitute a good rationale for that action. It's not like the Registration Act requires you to make your identity public.

According to an ongoing series of interviews with Joe Q at CBR, the reason they did it was because they knew that they were going to end up rebooting the marriage/history, so figured they could get away with it and fit it into the Civil War thing.

Which, sadly, is really all about editorial mandate, again. I think CW was pretty horrifically done, but I can actually see where they could have gotten some mileage (and interesting mileage) out of the identity reveal. Unfortunately, all they really did with it was use it as a catalyst for this storyline.

So that's it in a nutshell. Letting the character date again gives writers all kinds of opportunities to rehash soap-opera plots.

Well said, and sadly so. At least we can thank the gods that Chuck Austen isn't at Marvel anymore, and isn't writing Spider-Man.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Has anyone considered that this retcon of Spidey has also done away with the ramifications of his identity being revealed? Nobody knows anymore since his whole history has been reset.

Well, like I said, Joe Q's said that this whole debacle was the reason they did that in the first place.

In the end, knowing what that story was going to be is what allowed us to go ahead with the unmasking of Spider-Man in "Civil War" -- we had our "way out" ahead of time, it was a great place to be.

(This is from part 2 of his interview at CBR.)

Which is so forced, IMO.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Yupe, that will affect the Civil War story arc as well. But wait, why do I get the feeling, he was kicked to another alt. Earth.

Has anyone considered that this retcon of Spidey has also done away with the ramifications of his identity being revealed? Nobody knows anymore since his whole history has been reset.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

Yupe, that will affect the Civil War story arc as well. But wait, why do I get the feeling, he was kicked to another alt. Earth.

I wonder what the "new" version of Civil War will be and how it will be revealed. Who did Spidey sign with, did he fight Stark or Cap, what silly costume variations did he go through?

 

[JoeGKushner]

It's too bad that the first issue of Brand New Day doesn't open with the Watcher saying that these are the adventurers of Spider Man on earth 617 or something.

 

[Felon]

Has anyone considered that this retcon of Spidey has also done away with the ramifications of his identity being revealed? Nobody knows anymore since his whole history has been reset.

Um, yeah, I kind of talked about it at length a couple posts before yours.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

I wonder what the "new" version of Civil War will be and how it will be revealed. Who did Spidey sign with, did he fight Stark or Cap, what silly costume variations did he go through?

"Wait...didn't he unmask himself? Yeah, yeah, he did, I was there, but...but..."

Granted, if it's a simple "he didn't reveal his identity" then Tony Stark would still likely know it (since he was, after all, building Peter suits of power armor). OTOH, that'd mean it'd still be in the SHIELD databases, which wouldn't do Pete a bit of good from them hunting them down. I suspect this would have to be a farther-reaching thing.

(No, I haven't been following the comics...how can you tell?)

Brad

 

[Agamon]

There was definitely a better way to do this: realistically.

MJ is a model. Peter is gone all the time. So MJ finds someone else, Peter finds out, lots of angsty drama ensues.

Silly JoeQ.

 

[Relique du Madde]

There was definitely a better way to do this: realistically.

MJ is a model. Peter is gone all the time. So MJ finds someone else, Peter finds out, lots of angsty drama ensues.

Silly JoeQ.

Or like WayneLigon suggested.. they could have made MJ into a Skrull thus nullifying their marriage on the grounds that the real MJ was dead since the 80s

 

[JoeGKushner]

Or like WayneLigon suggested.. they could have made MJ into a Skrull thus nullifying their marriage on the grounds that the real MJ was dead since the 80s

Worked for the Human Torch and Alicia after the first Secret Wars.