Spider-Man got to talk to a resurrected Gwen Stacy for 5 minutes, and it was sweet

polygon.com:

You may be aware that the big event of Marvel Comics at the moment is that the Avengers, X-Men, and Eternals accidentally created a god with the power to destroy all life on Earth, and the mandate to do so if humanity is not judged favorably enough. “You will be judged individually. You will be judged as a collective,” said the Progenitor Celestial. Last week, it came for Hawkeye in the form of Black Widow, and this week, its roving eye finally arrived on our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.

And naturally, it took the form of Gwen Stacy, his worst failure. So, how did the luckless, flawed, eternally struggling Peter Parker measure up?

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The Progenitor didn’t just pardon Peter, it gave him a gift: one last conversation with a temporarily resurrected Gwen. A few years ago, I think this would have struck me as old hat, but in our modern times Gwen is her own internationally known Spider-Person in film and comics (not to mention her own Deadpool). Peter even knows Spider-Gwen! He mentors her!

It’s keeping the old-school tragedy of Gwen Stacy alive and meaningful, without the erasure of a female character from the mythos, which freed me up to enjoy this scene for the comic-booky high drama moment it is.

The issue also has a fantastic button, revealing that Gwen’s murderer, Norman Osborn — currently