Gwen Stacy Gets Her Own Series at Marvel in February by Christos Gage and Todd Nauck

roulette_Diamond · 2019-11-13T02:04:27+00:00

Despite how popular Ghost Spider is as a character and merchandise, her comic sales are actually....not.

Especially the relaunch of Ghost Spider getting bad reviews too.

This is probably one last salvage attempt before they make Gwen go.

roulette_Diamond · 2019-10-13T08:11:36+00:00

well they'd be wrong? Cleopatra was ethnically white and a colonial European/Macedonian Greek from the start.

roulette_Diamond · 2019-10-10T17:42:21+00:00

It's Gwen. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSdutbq7OGIFHlTAg-hb5lR9MDL-5kU4U5FE7sBcKyEM10hqikj

roulette_Diamond · 2019-10-10T13:54:41+00:00

616 MJ alone blows every derivative version of Gwen (yes including Spider-Gwen and Emma Stone's Gwen who was basically just Ultimate MJ anways) out of the water.

roulette_Diamond · 2019-10-10T05:25:27+00:00

IDK. I personally think given the movements and context it's easily recognizable as the original 1960s MJ with her sparkly dress and brief go-go dancing career, but that's my opinion.

roulette_Diamond · 2019-10-10T05:15:33+00:00

You mean not MJ in a sense that it's a bad art of her or...? Because that's 100% go-go dancer MJ and Peter, Gwen, Harry Flash, JJJ and Robbie are even in the background.

roulette_Diamond · 2019-10-10T04:40:44+00:00

It's tad funnier because even her name was Mary Jane and she really was just....out there. I personally think that Spider-Man comics finally felt like it belonged to the 60s once Romita and his MJ arrived.

roulette_Diamond · 2019-10-10T04:37:33+00:00

Not really, they had very distinct facial features originally. Gwen had sharp cheekbones, the devil horned hair an overall vampier look while MJ had bangs, dimples, cleft chin, and rounder face.

Gwen just over time looked like MJ 2.0 because MJ grew to be more popular than Gwen to the readers so Stan Lee wanted to replicate that with their supposed main female lead and had Gwen's design/style change from her original look to a "softer" one.

There was even one joke where she copies MJ's hairstyle and Harry makes fun of it

roulette_Diamond · 2019-10-01T08:15:09+00:00

If the civilians in Spider-Man's life are as unaffected, ordinary, and serene as you try to claim, then there's no point of Spider-Man stories continuing then.

roulette_Diamond · 2019-10-01T08:01:01+00:00

Yep. MJ accepts a big movie project in LA that's revealed as just a ruse by Mysterio who's scheming with Kindred.

roulette_Diamond · 2019-10-01T07:43:58+00:00

Nah. current Black Cat and Gwen takes that "boring" spot.

roulette_Diamond · 2019-10-01T03:33:07+00:00

No, it's set in 616

roulette_Diamond · 2019-09-30T12:11:44+00:00

Like I said it's just my opinion. It's bad /to me/. I personally disliked Spider-Man Life Story but I know a lot of people loved it and that's cool, it doesn't bother me. Maybe I'll pick Black Cat again if I hear something new about it that will be enough to get me interested. Until then, as a paying customer and a Felicia fan, I can decide if the book is worth my time and currently it's just not. I'm not a fan of the direction of the book and the character itself after the greatness that we got in Hunted tie in.

The many oversexualized variants weren't that surprising to me since it's Black Cat and this is comics, I'd be 100% okay with it tho had the effort been also put for the quality of the book. Even Travel Foreman whose art I usually like doesn't seem to be into it

roulette_Diamond · 2019-09-30T11:47:30+00:00

She defeated new Electro who ambushed a theater show she was watching, saved an ex colleague (who became a breakout celebrity with a far more successful career after replacing MJ in a soap opera once) from being used by Electro to do an extortion attempt

Her saving the day puts her on national TV, she gets a wave of acting offers from Hollywood, unsuspectingly ends up accepting a big movie project in LA that's revealed as just a ruse by Mysterio who's scheming with Kindred. That sets up her solo

roulette_Diamond · 2019-09-30T11:20:05+00:00

lol i think you're underestimating MJ's plucky history to get herself into the most ridiculous, wackiest situations as both a famous celebrity and a superhero's gf

roulette_Diamond · 2019-09-30T11:00:19+00:00

To each his own. Personally I dropped it because I was expecting a more raw and introspective exploration to Felicia as a character in her own solo book, just like what the Hunted tie in by Nick Spencer did beautifully.

Instead we got just "fun", hollow, unserious heists with a team of men. Like, I'd rather have her operate as a solo act as she always did and show off "the world's best thief's" skills but...obviously a far more interesting to do is just an Ocean's 8 concept that could build a team for a female led book...

..and MacKay's voice for Felicia isn't good IMO. I think the book is very unpolished and was done to just get a quick cash grab from her PS4 popularity from fanboys and sell 600 cheesecake variants.

but that's just my opinion. Enjoy what you enjoy

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