>In the present world of Spider-Man, the contentiousness that follows the
One More Day/ Brand New Day
story seems to be receding a little. Peter Parker and Mary Jane’s marriage, which had lasted for quite some time was collectively mind-wiped from the memory of everyone in the Marvel Universe thanks to a deal that Peter had made with the devil (Mephisto) to save the life of Aunt May, who Jon and I sometimes refer to as “crusty old Aunt May” since this old lady has been on deaths door since 1963. To save crusty old Aunt May, Peter agreed to have Mephisto reset their lives to where Peter and MJ were never married, and also dispose of the public knowledge that Pete was Spider-Man.

Fans have been a little ticked off with the dissolving of the marriage of Marvels favorite married couple, and I can’t say that I blame them too much. Years of character development for Peter Parker had been thrown out of the window to put him back to where he started. Not to say that Spider-Man has been all bad, in fact, there have been quite a few stories that I’ve really dug recently like the American Son storyline that finds Norman Osborn trying to recruit his own son Harry into his Avengers team. This leads Spidey to infiltrate Avengers tower posing as Venom in order to find a way to remove Norman from power, and to prevent his best friend from becoming a tool of his father, who has become the most powerful man in the world.

In issue 600, Mary Jane comes back into the picture, and leads one to wonder how much longer Marvel is going to drag the dead horse that is Brand New Day until they do what we all know is inevitable: Get Pete and MJ married again… that is have it to where this deal with the devil is erased to allow Spidey to further grow as a character. I have a feeling that all this Dark Reign business is possibly leading towards something like this. After all, who better to usurp Norman Osborn, the former Green Goblin, then Spidey. What will the results be? Guess we’ll have to stay tuned in the meantime.

-Jim

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