Eddie Edmends
View articlesAussie writer. Author and Co Creator of Australian comic 'Tick Tock'. Podcast host of Action Figure Blues. Here as a life long comic fan who's favourite characters include Spider-man and Deadpool
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Read this second opinion on the year’s final Superior Spider-Man issue! THE SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #24 “Darkest Hours” WRITERS: Dan Slott & Christos Gage PENCILS: Humberto Ramos INKS: Victor Olazaba COLOR: Delgado, Fabela, & Gandini LETTERER: […]
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- Paul Penna on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #60 (Legacy #954): “Hit The Road, Zeb” or “All [REDACTED] Things Must Come To An End”: “Yep, as I predicted, Paul is here to stay. Marvel want Peter and MJ apart, and Paul is the story…” Nov 4, 17:43
- Evan Berry on Panel(s) of the Day #1610 (Mary Jane Monday!): “Wow, Peter actually said, “I done blame her.”” Nov 4, 13:28
- Evan Berry on Panel of the Day #1609 (Splash Page Sunday!): “Who knew Peter had a skirt in his closet made out of webbing?” Nov 4, 07:43
- Evan Berry on Panel(s) of the Day #1608 (Ditko!): “That brick wall doesn’t stand a chance.” Nov 4, 07:41
- Hornacek on Panel(s) of the Day #1608 (Ditko!): “Peter is so upset that he forgot his own hyphen. Twice! And he also referred to himself as “The” Spiderman.” Nov 4, 04:28
- Hornacek on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #60 (Legacy #954): “Hit The Road, Zeb” or “All [REDACTED] Things Must Come To An End”: “@Joshua Nelson: At this point I don’t expect Marvel to have Peter tell Aunt May that he’s Spider-Man. If they…” Nov 3, 00:40
- Hornacek on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #60 (Legacy #954): “Hit The Road, Zeb” or “All [REDACTED] Things Must Come To An End”: “@Kenneth: I wasn’t even thinking about her health but you’re right. But just from the years of May making wheatcakes…” Nov 3, 00:36
- Hornacek on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #60 (Legacy #954): “Hit The Road, Zeb” or “All [REDACTED] Things Must Come To An End”: “@Dark Mark: Yeah, this issue really felt like an epilogue and not the final issue of a story. One issue…” Nov 3, 00:35
- Joshua Nelson on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #60 (Legacy #954): “Hit The Road, Zeb” or “All [REDACTED] Things Must Come To An End”: “Well…it’s over. Like most, I have not liked this run. At all. There are plenty of things I can critique…” Nov 2, 18:13
- Kenneth on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #60 (Legacy #954): “Hit The Road, Zeb” or “All [REDACTED] Things Must Come To An End”: “Would anyone who had both heart attacks and cancer eat pizza? Especially at the age Aunt May is? Then again…” Nov 2, 06:24
I feel what makes Peter’s out of character behavior work in this book is that we know he doesn’t want to kill Itsy-Bitsy. If this were in the hands of a bad writer (like Dan Slott), he would make Peter a robotic fool who has no emotional or personal connection with the audience. Here, Joe Kelly puts Spider-Man in a tough place: When is it right to actually take a life? This exact question was asked in Maximum Carnage, but unlike that story, this story seems to be going through with asking that question instead of just using that question for flavor and nothing else. Itsy-Bitsy’s been killing in both Spider-Man’s and Deadpool’s name, and having someone kill in your name must be pretty agonizing and demoralizing. I really felt a personal and emotional connection with Peter in this issue, and that’s something the main book has not given me for a while now.
I don’t think OMD’s gonna be retconned any time soon, but the idea of being so close to Mephisto in this story really does give me that inkling of hope.
@Jack seems t’me like the “Make me remember” thing was actually retconned by OMIT’s reveal. At least, I think Kelly would run with the latter.
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/01/21/what-did-mary-jane-watson-really-say-to-mephisto/
@Webhead: That would work. Of course, Marvel doesn’t care what MJ really was supposed to have said, that’s why they blurred it over. If they ever address it, they’ll just make up something that they think suits a short-range goal, and claim that was what she said.
However, I seem to remember someone reverse-decoding the text, and it said, “Let me remember.”
@Jack
It’s possible that, since Deadpool killed Peter, Mephisto is abusing an exact-words loophole in the deal. Parker was supposed to get a chance at a happy life -given he died, no matter how briefly, his life, and therefore his chance, were up, no?
Doesn’t this mean that MJ did /not/ whisper to Mephisto, “And you leave Peter alone”? Because if Mephisto is messing with Peter, then he is definitely not “leaving Peter alone.”
Loved it. I gathered it was Mephisto working with Weasel too. I love how the book has been gearing towards the promise of reversing OMD. I know it probably won’t happen, but hope is fun.