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The Watson Warriors

Before the year’s end, I wanted to throw out a little follow up piece to my earlier Mjfel wedding pic.

In this universe where Mary Jane and Felicia got married (Earth-2661), MJ became the Black Cat’s partner and took on the mantle of Marvella with enough high-tech and protective gear to keep her prepared in the field.

After one of their missions together, the two found a young girl named Faye Ito/The Marker spray-painting their penthouse. While initially angry at first, the two came to admire the young girl and eventually adopted her as their daughter.

Now Felicia works as a private investigator and MJ as an aspiring actress, with both of their incomes helping Faye’s education and school life greatly. And when they’re not having dinner together or having a movie night, they’re out beating up bad guys and cleaning up the streets, with a little help from good-old Uncle Peter swinging in occasionally.

Hope you like it and have a Happy New Year!

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From Spider-Man Vol. 3 #005, “Bloodline - Part V”

Art by Sara Pichelli, Elisabetta D’Amico and Dave Stewart

Written by J.J. Abrams and Henry Abrams

[hellyeahheroes]

Annie and Mayday don’t exist in this continuity. Ben is their only kid. And it doesn’t help that Ben is Abrams’ self-insert so yeah.

I disagree on Faye being a supporting character for Annie. Look, I love Annie but her existence depends on one thing: Peter Parker marrying and having a child with Mary Jane Watson. That puts her at odds with several writers, present and future because people go out of their way to write out Mary Jane in favor of their perceived ideal girl for Peter. This is why Mayday got shafted. Peter Parker is at war in a purgatory of non-development. He is stuck in a status quo that prevents him from being an actualized adult because writers refuse to let go of their petty and often sexist ass perceptions of marriage and occupation. Like Peter could have been a college professor, but nooooo let’s make him into a tech hedge fund millionaire like that makes fucking sense.

Annie has a conditional just like Mayday that makes her future or even her acknowledgement dubious. Sure, they like Mary Jane now but how long before some asshat decides to break them up again?

Send Ito to the Spider-person who has staying power and longevity and isn’t bogged down by status quo: Miles Morales. Not trying to be mean but come on. Faye Ito is wasted in this mini book that will be forgotten about and is only relevant because JJ Abrams is writing it. Marvel is not going to stick with this continuity ever so why bother wasting her design and personality when you can just add her to Miles’ growing supporting cast? I think it’s really simple and I’m not suggesting Faye Ito be a love interest of his because the kid already has like 9 of those.

Like the issue Peter has now is that writers refuse to properly use his supporting cast. Like where is Glory, Liz, Sha Shan, Jill Stacy, Norah Winters, Michelle Rodriguez, and J. Jonah Jr. and why aren’t they more involved outside of sporadic appearances? He has these people in his life that are dropped as soon as another writer takes over.

Miles has the opposite problem. He needs more foundational supporting characters and honestly Faye fits right in with Barbara and Danika. It helps that all three were created and designed by Sara Pichelli.

Did anyone else feel Abrams’ Spider-Man was redundant as hell?

JJ Abrams with Sara Pitchelli on the art has yet another Spider-Man series(if you are keeping count, 4 Peter Parker solos, 2 Miles, 1 Gwen), and it just feels unoriginal. To start off, well it’s an older Peter Parker who has married MJ and has a kid named Ben. And well...

Even on the same goddamn bridge.

So MJ gets killed by some super villain, and Peter’s arm has to be amputated. So we have a disabled Spider-Man who is a single father. Fast forward 12 years later.

This is Ben Parker, MJ’s and Peter’s kid. Everyone say hi to Ben.

Peter is constantly away and working out of town so he lives with Aunt May, who at this point has somehow found the secret to immortality. Male writers will find a litany of reasons to kill off love Interests but Aunt May is off limits. Anyways, nice kid. Cooks Aunt May breakfast and shit. Moving on.

Gets in a fight with a bully straight out of Back to the Future. Even talks shit about his mom and everything and Ben kicks his ass. Ben winds up in the Principal’s office and Peter picks him up.

Yeah, MJ’s death shook Peter. Ben did the right thing and Peter is berating him for helping people.

So Ben is a teenaged boy mourning the loss of his mother. His jaded dad is so broken that he doesn’t even bother to properly parent him and dumps Ben on his surrogate adoptive parent.

Oh yeah, he has Spider powers to the surprise of no one.

Aunt May points him to the direction of Peter’s old stuff and boom,he finds the Spider-Man costume.

Now I’m going to focus on the positive: Ito Faye.

I like her design. Sure, she is being wasted on this book and better suited for other Spider-people supporting cast(take your pick: Anya, Gwen, Miles, Mayday). Honestly Picheli’s Art is always a pro to any book she is on as she always has the best designs for teenaged girls.

Ben, however, is generic. He is safe. When I was reading this, I kept help but think of any male protoganist from any coming of age story. He doesn’t really stick out as he is just this normal kid. Yes I like that he stands up to bullies but okay compare his design to Faye. Faye’s first panel has her wearing multiple ear piercings, alternative hair color dye, and a shirt that says DamShell. She is trendy, fashionable, artsy, has a cool purse and she has green paint blotches on her. This is before she says anything else but her name.

She stands out. Ben doesn’t.

I remember Ito Faye. The only interesting about Ben is that he is Peter’s kid.

There is also Ben’s personality. He is just angry a lot like Peter. He lives with his Aunt a lot like Peter. His parent is dead a lot like Peter and his is unsure of what is going on a lot like Peter was.

He is Peter with red hair with no brainy attitude and Jewish Guilt.

And the dialogue and pacing is weird after the time skip. Like that panel introducing Ito is not missing panels. She literally goes on this spiel about how sexist the teacher is unprompted. Ben was an annoyance at first and then she gets on her soapbox. Weird.

Even the teacher feels off. Nothing organic is happening in the scene. It’s not just this scene either as you can find weird breaks throughout the comic. Like after the bad guy kills MJ, you are immediately sent to her Funeral. You don’t see what happens to the bad guy or know what he is. That just ended. I guess it’s whatever. The dialogue in that scene was strange as well because for some reason MJ did a taboo thing and went to Peter during a battle and tried helping him. No one knows why or how she got there. It just happens. Peter is uncharacteristicly telling a joke when danger to her is evident and look it’s weird and out of character.

And to top it off, did we really need another Peter Parker Spider-Man book? I know what you are going to say. It’s not Peter’s it’s his off-spring. Okay, but why even bother? I would rather see Peter marry MJ and have a kid and raise said kid than see a remix of the same concept with a character that is almost the same as Peter. We’ve seen Anna May, Mayday, and Ultimate Peter. Ben offers nothing new except a hodge podge of Mayday and Ultimate Peter.

But what did y’all think? I didn’t really care for it but then again, I’m Spider-Man’d out. I’m tagging @mjwatson , @mjwatsonne, and @traincat.

@ubernegro

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From Spider-Man Vol. 3 #003, “Bloodline - Part III”

Art by Sara Pichelli, Elisabetta D’Amico and Dave Stewart

Written by J.J. Abrams and Henry Abrams

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From Spider-Man Vol. 3 #001, “Bloodline”

Art by Sara Pichelli, Elisabetta D’Amico and Dave Stewart

Written by J.J. Abrams and Henry Abrams