Spider-Man's Marriage Spins Apart

[laconicsax]

Nobody could have seen this celebrity breakup coming: After more than 20 years of marriage, Spider-Man and Mary Jane are kaput.

Joe Quesada, editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, said it was time to shake things up in the life of Peter Parker, the nerdy New Yorker who upon being bitten by a radioactive spider attained the ability to transform himself into a web-spinning world savior. And it was easier to do that, he said, if Parker wasn't married.

This week's plot twist left many comic-book fans climbing the walls.

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[NewJeffCT]

1. They took the el-cheapo way out

a deal with the devil to save Aunt May.

[laconicsax]

2. How old is Aunt May anyway?

Shouldn't she have passed away at the ripe old age of 150 a while ago?

[NewJeffCT]

5. she was old in the early 1960s... but comic years are different than real life ones

In the comic book universe, it is about 4 real life years to one comic book year - in Spidey #1, Peter Parker was a senior in high school. One comic book comes out per month, 12 per year - so it take about 48 monthly comics to age one year.

He "graduated" high school around issue 49 or 50, if I recall, and then close to another 200 issues passed when he graduated college. Mary Jane made her "debut" around issue 43 or 44. If she was 18 years old then, that would make her close to 70 in real life if one comic-book year equaled one real-life year...

So, if they got married 20 years ago in real life, it's like a five year marriage in the comic-book universe.

[Dr. Strange]

9. So if my life was a comic book, I'd be coming up on Issue #2000.

I bet that will be a collector's edition.

[laconicsax]

10. So she's 10 years older than old?

that's still pretty old.

[Dr. Strange]

3. This is funny:

Well, the pair didn't exactly get divorced. After Peter Parker's beloved Aunt May was wounded in an attack, Spider-Man and Mary Jane reluctantly struck a deal with the devil-like Mephisto in which he erased everyone's memory of the couple's time together in exchange for May being restored to good health.

The story was received less than warmly by fans who thought that after 21 years of marriage Pete and MJ really were going to make it.

"Considering I have been reading Spider-Man for exactly 20 years now, and that seems to be the amount of time Joe Q. has decided to rip from Spider-Man continuity, can I simply return all of my Spider-Man comics for a full refund?" asked one of the more polite postings on Marvel's Internet message boards after the plot was revealed.

[DS1]

4. Spider-man needs to be killed off after what they did him with Spiderman3

[Dr. Strange]

6. Don't worry, #4 will be MUCH better.

They'll have Kraven, Carnage, and the Lizard. And it will star Gary Coleman and David Hasselhoff.

[Sultana]

7. I am still trying to recover from the

Barbie & Ken breakup, now this. :cry:


:sarcasm:

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. It was never meant to be, anyway

Peter Parker's first love was Gwen Stacy, but the Green Goblin killed her. :(

[lost-in-nj]

11. .....

oh what a tangled web we weave....




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