So I'm reading this mammoth GrayHaven summary of the clone series and was wondering if someone could update me on the spiderman continuity since the mid-nineties? Do Peter Parker and May Jane really break-up? What's that about?
― randall gheewala, Monday, 14 March 2005 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)
From what I could tell (@ the start of Paul Jenkins' Spidey run, back 6-7 years ago), Peter was moping about because MJ was thought dead! But then it turned out that MJ was just living on the other coast, doing crap film work. & then she reconciled w/ Pete, & they got back to the nookie. I think their split (& her "death") stemmed from all the clone crap (& whatever happened post-Byrne). I vaguely remember an ILC post from Tep that talked about this...
― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 14 March 2005 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)
I don't really know about how it all got started either, but the issue where they get back together (ASM #491 AKA v2 #50) is really great.
― Occam, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)
In order to make Spider-Man younger & more like in the old days of going out with Debbie Whitman & Marcia Kane, MJ was stalked for a bit and then blown up on an aeroplane shortly after the reboot.
Being a widower didn't make Peter seem as young and carefree as one might have thought, however. The stories got quite silly and he became homeless for a bit. I stopped reading for a year or so, as the combination of Jenkins and Mackie writing was too shit for me.
But apparently MJ was found alive, having been kidnapped. The guy who did it wasn't her stalker, though, but someone who was obsessed with Peter.
After she was saved by Spider-Man, she had the cheek of leaving him for Hollywood. She was just fed up with the danger.
I think the idea behind that was that a separated Peter might feel more up to dates than a widowed one. But he just moped around a lot.
Then he pestered her for a bit, and Romita Jr really started drawing her being in bed a lot in nice underwear, dreaming of Spidey.
So she came back.
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)