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[Content notes: colloquial ableisms.]
PETER PARKER has just used NORAH WINTER’S camera (held by MARY JANE WATSON) to broadcast an inspiring speech to spider-infested New York City.
NORAH: I can’t believe you just hijacked my feed! Reporter foul! And now you’re just leaving? Parker, you said you’d be my photographer!PETER: Sorry, Norah. You called Randy and Phil a bunch of times … one of them’ll be here.MJ: Or you could call them back and tell them to forget it, like you should. It’s too dangerous.NORAH: Yes, because a trained reporter can’t handle the same risks as Mary Jane Watson, supermodel. Idiot.
“Out of the Picture,” written by Dan Slott/Christos Gage and pencilled by Giuseppe Camuncoli, from Spider-Island: Deadly Foes #1. Follows directly from the Peter/MJ/Norah scene in Amazing Spider-Man #668.
Not cool, Norah!
An aside: as a Norah fan I’m not entirely sure what to make of her subplot in Spider-Island so far. It’s not out of character, precisely, so much as it leaves me feeling vaguely uncomfortable for reasons I can’t quite articulate … which may be exactly the point, in fairness! But it doesn’t help that Norah is currently also appearing in The Punisher, where Rucka’s take on her is, ironically enough, a good bit lighter and less cynical. I can’t help but wonder if we’re going to end up with two completely incompatible versions of the same character in just a few more months.
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[Content notes: colloquial ableisms.]
PETER PARKER has just used NORAH WINTER’S camera (held by MARY JANE WATSON) to broadcast an inspiring speech to spider-infested New York City.
NORAH: I can’t believe you just hijacked my feed! Reporter foul! And now you’re just leaving? Parker, you said you’d be my photographer!
PETER: Sorry, Norah. You called Randy and Phil a bunch of times … one of them’ll be here.
MJ: Or you could call them back and tell them to forget it, like you should. It’s too dangerous.
NORAH: Yes, because a trained reporter can’t handle the same risks as Mary Jane Watson, supermodel. Idiot.“Out of the Picture,” written by Dan Slott/Christos Gage and pencilled by Giuseppe Camuncoli, from Spider-Island: Deadly Foes #1. Follows directly from the Peter/MJ/Norah scene in Amazing Spider-Man #668.
Not cool, Norah!
An aside: as a Norah fan I’m not entirely sure what to make of her subplot in Spider-Island so far. It’s not out of character, precisely, so much as it leaves me feeling vaguely uncomfortable for reasons I can’t quite articulate … which may be exactly the point, in fairness! But it doesn’t help that Norah is currently also appearing in The Punisher, where Rucka’s take on her is, ironically enough, a good bit lighter and less cynical. I can’t help but wonder if we’re going to end up with two completely incompatible versions of the same character in just a few more months.
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MJ: [How] — did I get in? Feminine wiles, c.d. That and the fact that my friend Peter Parker is up here for a pow-wow with the Daily Bugle’s city editor.CAROL: That sounds like a cue, M.J. What are you doing for dinner?MJ: I thought you’d never ask.MJ: Say, you don’t mind my hanging around like this, do you?CAROL: Mary Jane, after a day listening to Jonah Jameson spout words of wisdom about women’s liberation — a conversation with you is pure catharsis.MJ: Thanks — I think.
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Ms. Marvel and Mary Jane’s odd friendship? [Ms. Marvel #2, 1977]
Writing: Gerry Conway; art: John Buscema.
I would love to see it acknowledged in current comics that these two know each other.
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[MJ and Peter brush hands while sitting next to each other, smiling but too shy to look at each other directly.]
Ultimate Spider-Man #14, Brian Bendis and Mark Bagley. Via biyabo.
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I (Heart) Marvel: Web of Romance #1, Tom Beland and Cory Walker.
[Peter is thinking of his wife while showering. No, not that way. ]PETER: I’ve had two great loves in my life. Mary Jane … and Gwen Stacy. I used to compare the two of them, which is only natural to do, I suppose. In all these years, I know that MJ thinks that Gwen has meant more to me than she has. But it’s not the case. I always had to keep an eye on Gwen. That meant I could never relax around her like I wanted to. I was always worried about which nut job was going to harm her.PETER: Because there’s no way that Gwen Stacy could take on someone who was going to bring harm to her. She was never streetwise … therefore, it was my job to protect her. So when I think of Gwen … she remains one of my greatest failures in life.PETER: But MJ … she’s been a survivor her entire life. I’m talking before there ever was a Spider-Man.PETER: An abusive father … a tough family life … Harry Osborn’s drug addiction and Green Goblin persona … that maniac Jonathan Caesar … everything. And she came through all of it with that same smile and laugh that I saw her with just five minutes ago. I’ve never had to worry about MJ the way I worried about Gwen. MJ can handle herself when she needs to.PETER: My wife is strong. My wife is smart. My wife is everything I could never be without that bite from the spider.
Four years after the publication of this issue, Joe Quesada had MJ claim that she can’t be with Peter because she isn’t “strong enough” to deal with the pressures of being his lover. Worse, Peter didn’t call her on it. Sigh.
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