Amazing Spider-Man #1 has everyone asking "What did Spider-Man do?", just as teasers have been asking leading up to the launch of the new volume. And while that question seems to have a dire and world-shaking answer, it hasn't been revealed just yet.
But another massive surprise is waiting in the last few pages of the story, and it calls into question almost everything readers have learned over the last couple years about Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson - with potentially shocking revelations to come.
Most of the issue focuses on Peter Parker as he avoids people he cares about, lying and sneaking his way around having to deal with or confront the consequences of whatever his actions were.
And oh yeah, after that first page, the actions skips ahead six months later.
Whatever happened in that scene and whatever happened during the subsequent six months, Peter is lying to Aunt May, avoiding his friends, and even dodging calls from Mary Jane - who asked Peter to live with her at the end of the previous volume of Amazing Spider-Man (ASM), but who seems to once again be separated from ol' Pete (although he seems to do a lot of walking by her apartment,
And that's the crux of Amazing Spider-Man #1's major revelation. No, not that Peter Parker and Mary Jane seem to be on the outs again after rekindling their relationship just months ago in real-time, but that Mary Jane seems to have moved on and is living and is in some kind of relationship with a man named Paul.
But that's just prologue to the big bombshell - Mary Jane and Paul seem to have two children together, both of whom are old enough to be walking and talking even though only six months have passed in between the last volume of ASM and the current relaunch.
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