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Tweak says, "UwU"

cyberghostface (cyberghostface) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-26 18:46:00

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char: anna watson, char: mary jane watson, char: may parker, char: scarlet spider/ben reilly, char: spider-man/peter parker, creator: j.m. dematteis, creator: mark bagley, publisher: marvel comics, title: amazing spider-man

Amazing Spider-Man #400

With #600 around the corner, I thought it would be a good time to post Amazing Spider-Man #400. This is the issue in which Aunt May says goodbye. Er, I mean a genetically modified actress who looks like Aunt May and was hired by Norman Osborn to impersonate her. This is what was sacrificed so we could have stuff like...well, you know what I'm talking about.

Prior to this, Aunt May had been in the hospital. This is when she returns home.

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	cyberghostface 2009-04-26 06:24 pm UTC (link)
	I think you're the first person to be offended by this. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	arbre_rieur 2009-04-26 07:58 pm UTC (link)
	I'm not offended. I just think it's a terrible story and retcons Aunt May into having been a heartless monster for years. No thanks. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	starwolf_oakley 2009-04-26 08:30 pm UTC (link)
	Well, it's left very vague as to when May was supposed to have figured it out. DeMatteis seems to say that it was during the Lee/Ditko years. Someone at "The Life of Reilly" says it was probably AMAZING #200. (Reply to this) (Parent)

ashtoreth
2009-04-26 08:52 pm UTC (link)

You are not the first person to think so. While many people thought it was a wonderful death scene, many many people were really horrified by the way May would've been hurting Peter for years.

Those people are usually the ones to say retconning THAT away was the only good thing to come out of the stupid reboot. That and the Conversation issue, where May finally finds out.

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	cyberghostface 2009-04-26 10:07 pm UTC (link)
	How does not wanting to admit to herself that her only surviving family member is risking his life daily make her heartless? She was still a loving aunt to him. She probably would have had a nervous breakdown if she acknowledged his dual identity. (Reply to this) (Parent)

box_in_the_box
2009-04-26 09:59 pm UTC (link)

While I generally enjoyed a lot of DeMatteis' stuff, and even a good deal of the way they handled Aunt May's death, the Unintended Consequences of retconning her into a woman who KNOWINGLY badmouthed her adoptive son's alter-ego in front of him REALLY didn't sit well with me ... and as the replies below indicate, I'm not the only one.

It'd be like revealing that Lois Lane knew that Clark Kent was Superman all along, because there's no way that it WOULDN'T make her a bitch.

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