that is one ugly retcon
What is it, Tom?
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that is one ugly retcon
What is it, Tom?
While they were retconning away the fact that everyone knows Spider-Man's secret identity, they decided to retcon a few other things too, so now Peter Parker was never married to MJ, and Harry Osbourn is still alive.
I thought Civil War was the reason for whitefont #1. As for whitefonts #2 and #3 -- WtfuckingF?!?
And HOW in the hell did they retcon those???
So, not so much "retcon" as "don't pay any attention to the man behind the curtain".
I'm only reading about it second hand. There's a news article about it here:
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I'm only reading about it second hand. There's a news article about it here:
Buh?
That's....actually dumber than Superboy-Prime punching a hole in reality.
And I don't say that lightly.
Gosh, and I thought that 'Peter Parker's Clone' was a stupid idea....
I saw the news over at Knut's livejournal. That is some kind of retcon. (Says he whose favorite book (LSH) is on it's fifth universe reboot, while characters from the original universe are traipsing around JSA, JLA, and Action.)
DH was interviewed about it by BBC Radio in Midtown Comics the other day. (Because he was flipping through the issue when they came in looking for sound bites.) He doesn't think they'll use him, though.
[eta: Oops, no they didn't. They were interviewing people about the "Spider-Man teams up with the UN" thing. Totally different Spidey thing.]
Actually, the primary purposes of the retcon was to undo MJ and Peter's marriage. Marvel editorial has been itching to undo that for a while, with the Parker Clone saga being an earlier attempt that went of the rails
It was just that while they were doing that, they decided to tidy some things back up, and sort of reset the character at the iconic ideal...
As for JMS, he didn't like the mechanism they used to do it, thought of it as sloppy writing. He debated taking his name off it, was convinced not to but had editorial share writing credit for it.