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Post by String on May 2, 2017 15:55:31 GMT -5
I have no idea about Peter's romantic life since he started getting it on with Silk because I don't follow the character any more. With Silk, it was more lust than actual love and that was due more to their physiologies and other-world prophecies than anything else. Lately, he's been wanting to explore a relationship with Mockingbird whose been his SHIELD liaison. |
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Post by String on May 2, 2017 15:58:10 GMT -5
I don't know that it is so much Stan didn't like Mary Jane as much as he really liked Gwen and wanted to go in that route. On the Stabur video series, his episode with the Romitas, he playfully accuses John Sr. of making MJ better looking and a fan favorite, so that poor, sweet Gwen never had a chance. You also have to remember that Gwen's death and MJ comforting Peter happens under Gerry Conway. Wasn't that the impetus for the original Clone Saga? That Stan kept urging either Conway or Thomas to bring Gwen back somehow? |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on May 4, 2017 7:00:30 GMT -5
I would guess you can tell how much Lee loved a property by how long he kept writing it. Fantastic Four and Amazing Spider-Man had more than a hundred issues with his name on them. He got nowhere near that far with his other properties. And it was up to him what he handed over to Thomas and other successors and when. By 1970, he was basically done with writing, essentially forever (he gets his name on the occasional thing, but I suspect he's paid for his name). He returned to only two Marvel properties for significant works. He wrote the Amazing Spider-Man newspaper strip. And he came back repeatedly to Silver Surfer over the next 20 years. He and Kirby turned Surfer's origin into a proper standalone graphic novel. Then he wrote a metaphysical story "The Answer" in Epic Illustrated. Then the famous Parable miniseries with Moebius. Then the Enslavers graphic novel with Keith Pollard. I can't imagine that's a coincidence. While Enslavers is pretty forgettable, those other three Surfer stories are among his best works. All philosophical and introspective. With you on the Surfer, but I think it was certainly possible that Stan wrote SPider-man and Fantastic Four the longest because he felt they were Marvel's most valuable properties and didn't want anyone else to screw 'em up. I think he wrote Thor for nearly as long as Spidey, too. I've never heard Kirby on the record, but I suspect that Thor was a personal favorite - He returned too the same mythological themes again and again, and considered New Gods over at DC a semi-sequel. |
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