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[Gloria]

Every day in every way I feel BND is lesser and lesser.

When I went this morning to pick up my issue of Daredevil, I saw that the new Spidey story was being drawn by John Romita jr.

I don't subscribe to the BND reboot, but I like JR jr's art, so I peered through the last Spidey issues at the store.

And then...

Before I go on, I understood that the events so far were the following:

1 - Quesada doesn't like Spidey being married.

2 - Quesada ghost-writes a saga credited to Joe Strazsinsky (to put it shorthly in a mildly sarcastic way), in which Mephisto magically solves all of Spidey's troubles, and erases his marriage to MJ. in the event, he also erases the "Peter Parker is Spiderman" notion from the brains of everybody, be it Peter's dear and closest ones, his good pals, or his foiercest enemies. Also, in the process, Peter forgets about his marriage, his "outing", etc, etc... and of course the fact that it was all attained thanks to Mephisto.

Well, in Amazing Spider-man #569 we have the following scene: Norman Osborn and the Thunderbolts break into peter's appartment.

Osborn: "...where can I find Spider-Man?"
Peter: "Wha...?"

So far this could be OK but then we have this inner dialogue by Peter: "Ah, right, he doesn't remember anymore.e has no idea I'm Spidey. Nobody does. Everything we did is still up and running. I'm safe"

Well, this sounds pretty weird to me. the OMD/BND premise seemed preposterous to me (Francesco knows I'd rather use a STRONGER term), but with this inner dialogue the premise seems inconsistent with itself!

Of course, this may be my first contact with post-OMD Spidey, so maybe I've missed something which has happened in previous issues?.... Maybe Pete will say to himself in future issues "It's good to see that Harry doesn't remember he's dead, but I should recommend him some darn good deodorant to fight this terrible corpse odour" or "It's good that MJ doesn't remember we're married... FREEDOM! FREEDOM! FREEDOM! FREEDOM! "[/i]
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Gloria
Devuélveme el rosario de mi madre y quédate con todo lo demás

"Para la cuesta arriba quiero mi burro, que la cuesta abajo yo me la subo"

[Francesco]

Worse than that, Peter looked oddly relaxed as soon as he realized Norman didn't know his secret, even though he was still face to face with the original Green Goblin (the one who killed his girlfriend, if it's not clear).
I understand he has to keep his identity a secret, but even by his thoughs, in the caption boxes, it seemed like he couldn't care less.

[james castle]

I'm no fan of OMD/BND but where is the inconsistency there?

On the other hand, how does Spidey get his hands on DD's suit? He asks Matt? Peter still knows Matt is DD but Matt apparently doesn't know Peter is Spidey so isn't that a problem? Does Matt know now?
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JC

So why can't you see the funny side?
Why aren't you laughing?

[Gloria]

[jumonji]

[Gloria]

[james castle]

[Gloria]

[Francesco]

Man, the whole thing could've been paradoxically a little more consistent if they omitted the idiotic particular that "Even though Peter unmasked during civil war, no one quite remembers who was behind the mask".
No one? Not even those who told him to do it? Not even those interested in Spider-man (his enemies)? Not even Osborn, who is supposed to hunt down Spider-man for the government?

[jumonji]

[Gloria]

Incidentally, there's a scene between Norman and Harry which makes me wonder if they have brought Harry from the land of the dead just to stablish an Smallville papa Luthor/Lex type of antagonism (even if Smallville's Luthor family dinamics were written long after Marvel depicted the troubled relationship between Norman and Harry)
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Gloria
Devuélveme el rosario de mi madre y quédate con todo lo demás

"Para la cuesta arriba quiero mi burro, que la cuesta abajo yo me la subo"

[Francesco]

Oh, yeah. That was disgustingly cliché.

[Gloria]

[Francesco]