> ... After Spider-Man literally talked to every single scientist, magician and superhuman healer in the Marvel Universe, he wasn't able to find anyone who could save Aunt May's life from a gunshot wound - IN THE MARVEL FUCKING UNIVERSE, where so many people come back from the dead that it's become a career for many of them - and then, Mephisto showed up out of nowhere (no, not an exaggeration ... he actually just appeared in the third issue of the four-issue arc, with no build-up or foreshadowing whatsoever), and told Peter and Mary Jane, "I'll save Aunt May's life, but only if you allow me to RETCON YOUR MARRIAGE!!!"
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> Okay, he didn't use the term "retcon," but otherwise, that's almost exactly a word-for-word quote.
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So he's essentially playing the role of the Hooded Hood in the Marvel Universe? Interesting.
I'll be honest, I don't hate the idea itself... although it strikes me as one you'd have to implement with a fair amount of poetic execution. My biggest complaint with how things are handled under Quesada isn't the huge, shocking changes in status quo, but rather how artificially they're handled, exposing stories as nothing more than lurches towards such obviously blatant shocking changes in the status quo.
When Gwen Stacey died, it seemed to be a tragic part of the story, not the reason for the story's existence.
