Someday, the damage caused by ‘The Dark Knight Returns’ to the history of comics should be analyzed. Not the comic itself, which is a masterpiece, but all those that came after, wanting to emulate their own Frank Miller without the author’s talent, enthusiasm, or know-how. One of the finest examples of this crude imitation is ‘Spider-Man: Kingdom,’ a graphic novel from 2006 that portrays an aged Peter Parker, becoming increasingly grotesque as the years go by.
Radioactive fluid
‘Spiderman: Reino’, created by Kaare Andrews, is better known as “the story in which Spider-Man kills Mary Jane with radioactive semen.” Yes, you read that correctly. Peter lives alone and hasn’t worn the superhero suit in a long time, until we finally discover that it’s because he killed his wife through, let’s say, a “fluid exchange.” An absolute madness that overshadows anything else they might want to tell (which, by the way, isn’t anything extraordinary either).
But in the midst of the revival of formats and stories, someone at Marvel has thought, “Hey, why don’t we wrap up that story with a triumphant return?” and they’ve decided to bring it back. For Marvel, it remains the most “notorious” Spider-Man comic (although only for them), which is why they believe a sequel will be well-received among an audience that has been mocking the original series for the past fifteen years.
The first issue will be released in November, and for now, they announce to us that the story “isn’t over yet,” with an image showing Spidey carrying the ghost of Mary Jane on his back. It’s worth noting that in the current ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ series, MJ and Peter are not together because she married another man in an alternate dimension, where they had two non-real children. Well, that’s a Marvel move.
In the preview that has been released this month, we see a monstrous Kingpin and an MJ saying, “So much hurt and pain and death… Too many things you can’t rewind. What did you let them do, tiger? And what are we going to do about it?“ Well, it’s a testament to how much unintended damage Frank Miller caused.
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