The reboot of the Spider-Man universe has been given a reset…at least in the daily comic-strip adventures of Peter Parker and his alter-ego.
The daily comic-strip version, which runs in syndicated newspapers acorss the nation and world, recently followed the official canon reboot of the character. The reboot found Peter and Mary Jane Parker making a deal to ret-con their marriage and save Aunt May from death. Peter is now single and taking pictures for the Daily Bugle, though other elements of the Marvel Universe stayed in play.
However, some readers of the daily strip were upset by the change, leading to a protest. Now, the series has ret-conned the reboot and finds Peter still married to Mary Jane.
Here’s the strip that put everything back to the way it was.
I’ve lost some respect for the writers over this issue, kind of like “New Coke”. But for the love of the brand, I’ll keep reading Spidey for now!
I believe the retcon of Brand New Day is a serious insult to long time fans. It was exciting when Spidey got his power upgrades and now they had to wipe out 10 years of history along with it. Why do they have to bring back the cliches where he runs out of web fluid in the worst moment when they can just let the character grow personally as well as in terms of power upgrades. Brand New Day so so stupid that I will not read anymore Spidey comics until they fix it. Which I doubt will ever happen.