Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows-One More Chance

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by WebLurker

He wanted to bring it back?

I think I brought this up before here, but apparently he told fans at conventions he'd been pitching a marriage comeback for a while, and only got permission to do RYV when Secret Wars came about.

I could very well be wrong, but I got the impression that having written the RYV miniseries, he'd done what he wanted with that premise, that he wanted to have a chance to write a story based on that iteration, not bring it back full time.

Yes, but Slott also said elements from RYV would greatly impact the books later on. We've seen that manifest through the use of Regent in 616, the "deja vu" Peter and MJ had when fighting him, and in promoting the RYV ongoing, Conway hinted there would be potential for a crossover between the two universes eventually. I suspect Slott would relish the oppertunity to compare and contrast Peter the single CEO with Peter the humble working-class family man who has everything that Mephisto said his devil-dealing counterpart would pretty much never have.

However, I'm really sure why people at Marvel would be surprised that the marriage fans are still around. As I understood it, back in '07, they thought that within a year OMD would be accepted and things would go one. That never really happened. The fanbase that wants nothing to do with post-OMD Spider-Man (or prefers pre-OMD regardless of if they like the new run for what it is) have remained vocal. I mean, when Slott made the official Q and A for Marvel's introduction to his RYV miniseries, he specifically commented that the marriage was a thing that Spidey fans had strong opinions on, and that he may have been understating it.

I don't think they're as surprised as they let on. When they found out the newspaper strip was going to bring the marriage back after running for only a few months with a single Peter, they simply said "they can do their story, we'll do ours", they've always been aware there was something to keep the marriage fans going. Slott has brought up the strip several times, even telling fans to read it while Superior Spider-Man was running, and then he wrote a strip story himself for Spide-Verse, taking credit for "sparing" the strip's version of Peter from the events of that story that had already claimed the life of the happily married MC2 Peter (or rather a version similar to him)

Wonder why? Most of the people who put OMD into place are still there and since last year, at least, the comics were toeing the line that OMD fixed the franchise.

I think some of the people in those posistions disagreed with Quesada on some things related to the execution of OMD. Tom Brevoort is of the opinion MJ was still pregnant during The Clone Saga, but Quesada's One Moment In Time story establishes otherwise.

Quesada in a rare interview last year insisted removing the marriage was the 'right thing' to do...though this is the same Quesada who actually produced a variant cover for the last issue of Slott's Renew Your Vows.

Axel Alonzo, now the EIC, was the man in charge of the Spider-line when OMD went down, so maybe he has a lot to do with the recent Mephisto references, perhaps he feels like some of us do that the time travel retcon is perhaps a little too damaging to long-term investment and it's probably better they reveal it was a mind-wipe job, that allows Quesada's story to stand, but allows Brevoort's opinion to become factual and it does'nt create this idea that post-OMD canon does'nt "count"

We'll see. My personal guess was that someone eventually would mess with it again, even if was a halfway with Peter and MJ dating; but I was thinking it would be after the readers who grew up with that version became the ones creating the comics. That is essentially how OMD came about; the people in charge weren't happy with what the character had become and wanted him to be like how he was when they were the civilian readers.

Yes, there is that possibility we've going to enter a vicious cycle with generations of fans...there will be people who have spent their entire young life beleiving Peter and MJ have always been at odds and that Gwen Stacy was always a Web Warrior (something the new cartoon won't be helping with), or that Peter never worked for Jameson and went straight to Horizon. There's always that danger, but that's probably why Marvel are reprinting The Wedding saga this year..to inform that generation (or to inform people new to Renew Your Vows, take your pick)

Yeah, I've been collecting the script PDFs. Pretty good. Not sure if the first couple of scripts being a reimagining of the RYV miniseries #1 is quite what I would've done (I think Venom was a better choice than Doc Ock for the villain in question, although I will concede that the FNSM script version did have more room to breathe). I also really wish they could get an artist to make an actual comic over a script, but it has been worth the reading so far.

I read that they plan to at least illustrate a couple of pages of the first issue...but whether that means commisioning a pro to do it or not is up to them. I don't really like the front covers they come up with themselves, they'd be much better off just using established artwork and make use of some clever photoshopping until they can get a pro in.