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Post by Matt Droz on Jan 11, 2008 8:53:08 GMT -5
I am amazed. Amazed that even a great editor-in-chief like Joe Quesada and a great storyteller like J. Michael Straszinski could fuck up Spider-man more in one story line than Marvel had been able to do in the past 40 years... One More Day Storyline. Basically, Spidey unmasks during Civil War, enemies try to kill him, shoot Aunt May and, to save her life, Peter and MJ make a deal with Mephisto (aka the devil) that they will erase their marriage from reality to save Aunt May's life. So, now, they've been dating for years, she doesn't know he's Spidey, Aunt May doesn't know he's Spidey anymore and he's back to mechanical web-shooters and, although he still unmasked during Civil War, everyone's memory has been "fuzzed" so they don't remember who's under the mask. I'm all for getting back to basics, but to retcon 20 friggin' years is ri-damn-diculous!!
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Post by Keikan300 on Jan 11, 2008 11:40:57 GMT -5
Look at it this way.... At least they tried to come up with a reason.... I'm surprised that they just didn't "forget" about the entire thing and just write it that people didn't remember.... It reminds me of the famous X-Men title in which Psylocke got a kick-ass makeover, right in the middle of a story. Marvel changed artists right in the middle of the story arc and Psylocke went from a cute, girl next door to a drop-dead gorgeous super-model. Psylocke before the change.... Psylocke AFTER the change... They tried to explain it that she didn't want to be seen as only a sex-sysmbol so she mentally cloaked her appearance, up to that point and then stopped caring.. She also changed from a Caucasian British female to an Asian one. Don't ask me.... I only read the issue... and then slapped myself for wasting my own time.
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Post by vchan on Jan 11, 2008 17:36:37 GMT -5
it was a bit more than that for psylocke...
from what I understand, and it was a while ago that I read this... Asian Psylocke was actually an assassin/bodyguard for the japaense Mafia. British Psylocke is Captain Britains sister.
Somehow, someway, they ended up fusing personalities, and then splitting back, or being bodyswitched (a little fuzzy on which happened where)
British Psylocke showed up again out of nowhere several years later just in time to explain the switch, and reveal she had that mutant killing virus that was going around... same one that they used to take out Maddrox, and Illyana (Colussus' sister, Magik)
I'd have to go digging through old comics to find it again, but yeah, not making much more sense than the "I'm Captain Britains sister, but really an asian hottie and didnt want to be viewed as such"
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