Update: It's been quite a while since we got any answers (or even any bigger hints) about what went on to separate Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson again, but Marvel's just released 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:full March 2023 solicitations mentions that answers about the once again fractured relationship between Peter and MJ will fi🥃nally come in March's Amazing Spider-Man #21 and 22.
Perhaps the final answer will have something to do with 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:MJ having secret superpowers (as just revealed in Mary Jane/Black Cat #1). Read on for more on what we know about why Peter Parker and Mar🔥y Jane Watson aren't together right now.
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But Mary Jane Watson and Peter Parker seemed to patch up their long separation and decide to move back in 🐼together at the end of the aforementioned previous v🌄olume of Amazing Spider-Man,
Now, Peter Parker has alienated himself from all his friends, and MJ even has a new relationship with another man, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:including two apparent step-kids.
Yeah♉, a live-in relationship with another guy and his two toddle༺r-age kids - all in that unseen six-month gap.
Though the questions raised by that status quo are numerous, they all come back to just one important query that needs answering: “What did Peter Parkওer do?”
That cryptic question launched the current volume of Amazing Spider-Man and has yet to be anꦆswered - though it🎐's been hinted at plenty.
Whatever Peter did, it was destructive on a massive scale, injuring his body and his mental health, and driving a wedge into his relationships with MJ, Aunt 🌠May, and most of his friends.
Still, the fallout we're left wonderin𝕴g about more than anything else is how Pete👍r and MJ wound up in their current situation - kids and all.
Is there some 'nefarious' force keeping them apart? Maybe… but not ho൲w you may be thinking. Her🏅e’s what we know so far.
Spider-Man loves Mary Jane
Wh෴en last we saw Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson together, Peter was just returning to the role of Spider-Man after a bout of radiation poisoning left him hospitalized, with his clone Ben Reilly temporarily taking on the mantle of Spider-Man in his absence.
(Things turned out bad for Ben - he turned into the villain Chasm, who plays a role in the澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: upcoming 'Dark Web' story).
At the end of that saga, told in the story , Peter and MJ were planning to move inꦦ together - until they were interrupted by a mysterious glowing figure telling Spider-Man he tracked him down on "a road of bl❀ood," and beckoning him to follow.
And with that, the story ended in Amazing Spider-Man #93, the final issue of the pervious volume of the title. The next time we saw Peter Parker, it was at the start of the𓂃 new , released just a few weeks after the previous volume ended, screaming his lungs out in a smoking crater located somewhere "outside York, Pennsylvania."
Whatever happened with the mysterious figure seems to have led to that moment. B꧃ut we've 🐻yet to receive any answers about what events actually transpired, as the issue immediately takes a six-month jump ahead.
That's where the "Wh🍷at did♛ Peter Parker do?" question comes in.
Whatever happened, caused him to b💝reak up with MJ once again, and drove a wedge between him and Aunt May. Peter is even on the outs with his friends such as Johnny Storm an😼d Robbie Robertson. He's also gone deep into debt with apparent medical bills.
And maybe worst of all, he had to accept some kind of mysterious help from his old arch-enemy Norman Osborn, who seems to be ge𒈔nuinely attempting to turn over a new leaf from his villainous Green Goblin days.
Mary Jane loves Paul
As for MJ, she's moved in with a man named Paul, an apparent single father who has two kids - one of whom looks suspiciously like MJ he🃏rself. The kids and MJ have formed a bond strong enough for them to call her "Mommy."
Most recently, in August 10's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Amazing Spider-Man #7, Peter had a surprise run-in wit🥀h Mary Jane at OsCorp, where O🎃sborn offered Peter a job and a new-and-improved Spider-Man suit.
It was awkward. Peter promised he wouldn't c💦all MJ, though Paul showed up and invited Peter to dinner. Again - awwwwkwwwaaarrrdddd.
And that's the w⛄hole vibe right now - an awkward, somewhat nebulous space between MJ and Peter, with the question o𝄹f Peter's apparent mistakes hanging over his head.
Up next, Peter and Wolverine will team up in Amazing Spider-Man #9 to rescue Mary Jane from the villainous 🦂Moira X, who kidnapped her during the events of X𒀰-Men: The Hellfire Gala - so there may be some answers coming when they 🌟reunite.
By the way, that weir📖d glowing figu𒀰re still hasn't returned. But answers to questions about who it was and what happened may be coming in 'The Dark Web,' a Spider-Man/X-Men crossover in which Mary Jane plays an important (but undisclosed) role.
Are they ever, ever, ever getting back together?
So why go to all the trouble of solving the problem of Mephisto having stolen Peter Parker and Mary Jane's marriage in 2021's by absolving Mephisto's curse with some help from Doctor Strange, just to break them up again under mysterious ci🦄rcumstances💙?
The editor's page from Amazing Spider-Man #1 promised answers about Paul and his kids, and we're patient enougಞh to know they're coming - the way those questions and answers are unfolding is part of the story, after all.
But there's another undercurrent in the latest "won't-they" phase of this iconic "will-they-won't-they" romance. And it's not about what's in the page🐈s of Marvel Comics, but what goes on behind the scenes.
Back when Mephisto first cast the spell in which Peter Parker and Mary Jane traded their marriage for Aunt May's life in , the behind-the-scenes-reasoning as explained by the story's artist and co-creator (and Marvel's🍷 then editor-in-chief) Joe Quesada was that Peter Parker's traditional youthful portrayal ran counter to him being married - that his marriage aged him.
However, the vibe was that Peter and MJ getting divorced would make Peter see♏m even older, wi🎃thout restoring the mistake-prone youthfulness of his pre-married status quo.
"It's very easy to un-marry a character, or fix something like that: you just do a huge universal retcon, and say a few events in history didn't happen. But that's really not the way we do it her🌳e at Marvel," Quesada said at the time.
Instea🌌d, they had Peter and MJ essentially wish their marriage out of existence in a deal with the devil.
Tangled in a Dark Web
Now, at C2E2 2022's Spider-Man Retrospective panel, current Marvel editor-in-chief CB Ceꦺbulski echoed the൩ sentiment that Peter is better off unmarried.
"𒆙The thing with Peter Parker is, he always has to be relatable," he told the panel's audience, making it clear the publisher has no plans to have Peter marry (or re-marry) anyone in the foreseeable future (via ).
So what does that mean for Peter and MJ, and the an𒈔swers that may be coming in 'The Dark Web'? Is there a reunion in the cards for the once-marrie💮d couple?
It's not unlikely - but don't expect a full𒀰 revival of their wꦯedded bliss any time soon, or any kind of restoration of their pre-One More Day status quo.
🍷Instead, it seems more and more like Marvel will stick with the 'Sam and Diane'/'Ross and Rachel' style back-and-forth - at least enough to keep fans of Peter and MJ's relati𒅌onship invested.
Keep up with all the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new Spider-Man Comics coming from Marvel in 2022 and beyond.
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