Re: Petes with Gwen?
People were getting upset about MJ and Pete in Ultimate continuity, suddenly not being together, and directly comparing it to OMD/BND. Read the comments above, that's where the 616 comparison is first mentioned. I certainly didn't bring up BND first. My comment was a kind of 'playing devils' advocate' response to that. (Not a perfect analogy I'll grant you, but the bad pun was too much to resist!..:) )
At worst it was a tongue in cheek snarky conjecture on whether we would start to see the same over the top reactions to Ultimate Spiderman as have happened to the 616 direction..
Though I would hope not, since most criticisms about BND always fall back on the deal with the devil aspect, so I'm hoping that we won't see that with this comic. As that really would expose a lot of hypocrisy..
Personally, I cannot wait to see Marvel finally follow up on the Mephisto nonsense, have the deal undone, and then have MJ and Pete decide to go their seperate ways, as I would bet good money that that's the long term game plan Marevl has there. As it'll be very interesting to see what the reactions are once that happens, and people no longer have the whole 'devil crutch' to fall back on..
And that, is why I'm fascinated by the reactions to this Ultimate story, as it seems to be doing a 'natural' split of Pete and MJ. Something which many folks have been saying should have happened with BND. My whole point is that this shouldn't be attracting the same time of reactions, and the part of me that actually has y'know a little bit of faith in human nature is hoping that that will prove to be the case, and that we will be spared the same over the top reactions..But we shall see..
Plus I think I should point out, that making a comparison about one Pete/MJ split in a Spiderman comic book, and another Pete/MJ split in a Spiderman comic book, and the reactions to both by comparison, not exactly what I would call 'unrelated'..