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Originally Posted by ZariusTwo
I find the whole "real" thing sort of amusing because if we want to get technical, the "real" canon ended in 2007, and the MC2 universe probably could make a bolder claim for being "real" given that Peter and MJ are much older than 616 Peter and MJ and have all of the same history with the exception of anything that went on in the 2000s. The strip Spider-Man probably ought to have that claim also given it's the more vintage canon, having started in the 70s, it's ran by the Liebers and currently has the longest-lasting version of the marriage in the Spider-Man medium, at least in real time, at 30 years. I still look at post-OMD Spidey as a reletively "new" continuity at just ten years.
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I suppose that's the crux of the question, is the post-OMD stuff a continuation of the "real" deal or is it a new thing? I guess you could make cases both ways.
I find the question silly since there have been so many renditions and continuities over the years, and different ones will mean more or less to different people. Kind of like that old Superman quote: "This is a fictional story. Aren't they all?"
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I also gave Doug Ernst a link to the stories, he's intrigued by the first issue and understands where they went with Doc Ock, but thought that the Billy Mays joke dates the series to a certain period (kind of like a lot of jokes Slott has in his books that'll make a generation go "huh?" later on...though this is'nt exclusively a problem he has either)
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Think I saw that. Topical humor is pretty tricky. Some thing'll age well or work anyways, others won't (for example, most of the late Robin Williams' impersonations as the Genie in
Aladdin are still funny even if you don't know who he's pretending to be, while the "let it go" joke in
Zootopia will date as soon as
Frozen looses it's infamous place in pop culture).
02-18-2017, 12:38 AM
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