Spider-Man Less Spectacular and Friendly, More Amazing

[GrnMarvl14]

Stephen Wacker, the man behind DC's 52 left DC early this year for Marvel. Everyone assumed Marvel would be doing a weekly because of this. Not...quite. Instead, after the One More Day storyline that runs through Amazing Spider-Man, Spectacular Spider-Man and Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man...two of the titles will be cancelled. And the remaining title, Amazing, will be shipping three times a month. Which, I BELIEVE, has never been done outside of a fifth week mini-series.

Source.

Now if we can just get them to cancel Wolverine: Origins.

 

[Lil Brother]

Yes, cancel Wolverine: Origins. That is the worst written, most inappropriatly drawn, overly-hyped, and all around sucktacular comic book series in recent history. Kill it!

As for Spider-Man, this is... weird. x.o I don't see why everyone hates the idea of two monthly series. Three is really pushing it, but two isn't. Hasn't Spidey had at least two ongoing series since the inception of the first spin-off?

If done correctly, this could be cool. But excuse me if I don't have high hopes. The teams better be good...

I still think canceling Spectacular, giving Amazing a new team and keeping it monthly, and keeping Friendly the way it is would have been the best course of actions. Blagh.

If they do the whole retcon thing and ditch Mary Jane, I'm dropping the title and probably all of comics. Swear to God. Actually, scratch that. Instead I'll continue to waste money on comics I don't want to read and will rant on the internet. That'll show 'em! In any case, if that turns out to be true, it will the most retarded, short-sighted thing to ever be done to Spider-Man since the Ben Reilly was the real one. Hell, it'd be worse than that. The whole retcon business is what made me never even consider looking into DC.

 

[Zeta]

Mary Jane is a SKRULL!

 

[GrnMarvl14]

Actually...for One More Day, they might be stealing an idea from John Byrne (apparently House of M was ALSO stolen from Byrne, just replace Magneto with Kang, Wolverine with Black Knight, and Quicksilver with Immortus).

First was that the Spider-Man creative team's proposed revamping of Spider-Man's world in a Bobby Ewing style. First, the creative team would have put Peter Parker through the worst of it, until he considers ending it all. At that point, he'd find himself on the bridge where Gwen Stacy died, offering his soul if the clock could have been turned back to simpler times. At which point the Shaper Of Worlds does just that, remaking Spider-Man's world to when he was back in High School, but with the current book's supporting cast, taking place in the modern day. Eventually confronting the Shaper, he discovers nothing can be changed, and his memories of the old world slowly fade away. The team decided though that this kind of event would be too "cosmic" for Spider-Man, who has a "street level" tone.

Source (Scroll down). With Spidey's books being cut to one and sped up, it would enable them to rush him back into present continuity much more quickly.

As for the original House of M:

John says that Immortus had been travelling through dimensions, finding the moment where that reality split from the Marvel Universe and cutting it off, so that there would be only one timeline left. WCA readers say these sequences happening as fascinating but then-unexplained snippets within the main plots of the book.

Immortus was to use the Scarlet Witch's power to change probabilities by altering events retroactively to do this and create a final reality where the first battle between Avengers and Kang (another version of Immortus) resulted in Kang winning.

Time has been changed and the world is a nasty one, ruled by Kang. But this reality caught up to a previous event, where Thor had saved the Black Knight by placing him in a dimensional pocket outside of time and space (and unaffected now by Immortus' meddlings). He pops out with full memory of the way the world should be and starts putting a team together to make things right.