Forward & Prolouge of "Clone of Me":

"CLONE OF ME"
by Matt B.

Forward:
Hello Matt here, I'd like to take a quick moment and thank some very special people here: Anyone whose a Blog reader & likes to share their ideas & words freely, my whole family as well, especially Bo Bartlett & my granddaddy Ben Powers.... But most of all I want to thank God for giving us all the ability to be creative in ourselves....

Prologue:
It was very strange weather for the time of year, it was hailing but it had been hailing for several weeks at a time. The hail was it's normal golf ball size yet it's weight was as heavy as a gold bar. The news stations were sure that this weather was sure to pass on last night, they were wrong. People were stuck for weeks at home, work, or in places where they enjoyed themselves as well. No one knew if this was nature's doing or man made but still everyone was scared.
The hail had destroyed buildings & streets alike holes in the streets stopped traffic cold & buildings came apart like tissue paper, there surfaces of brick or stone crumbled because of the possible metal element that was with the ice itself. Most of the street lights had fallen into houses & it was apparent Armageddon was happening again. Dream or no dream he knew he was the cause of what was happening or at least in part he was.
A piece of hail that had broken into his & Evermore's apartment had landed on the floor. He had been watching a show of Evermore's favorite TV series, the show had main characters that started each episode with focus on a eye. He saw in his burled mind's eye he was looking down at his own bloody covered hands...
"NO, NO, NO"
He'd been having this dream for weeks now he had wanted Sasha to sleep out on the couch, but she was insistent on sharing the bed with him. For if he had the dream again she wanted to be there for him.
"Jon, Jon wake up hon your dreaming again your scaring me please wake up honey." Last night he'd knocked her off the bed of course it was an accident. Jon was still trying to sleep because he wanted to know why he had bloody hands on him in his REM sleep.
" Sash stop please I'm ... "
In Jon's REM sleep he sees himself looking from his bloody soaked hands to the floor, what he sees is still burled as always. "I'm, I can almost see..."
Sasha is trying to get Jon up by punching him, like always Jon finally wakes up & is perspiring like a white ghost just out of the fridge.
"Oh God not again!"
Sasha was holding Jon to reassure him it was again okay that the dream wasn't important at least for now. "No I do know it's important" Jon said "How or why?" Sasha asked as she tried to kiss him Mr. Ryder for the answer. She knew he'd never share about this nightmare, & really she didn't care about Jon's dreaming habits she just cared about his well being & his friendship with her. Jon himself kinda had a feeling as to what the nightmare was but knew it would upset Sasha no matter how he would tell it. He always woke like he did tonight, but tonight for the first time he saw an eye.
*****
Jon & Sasha had finally made their way to Raven Enterprises via their own bikes & the city's light rail system. They come to talk to Mr Raven himself to tell him Jon had had enough of the DLX-12 project no matter what.
"And your sure without a doubt your leaving no matter what my father has to offer you Mr & Mrs Ryder, nothing could change your mind at all?"
The young lady that had asked the question was about a month or two younger than Sasha herself. She was wearing a tan blouse with a leather white cowboy looking vest & a denim jean skirt.
"No!, No matter what you cold hearted little Bitch" Sasha pounded her fist on the young lady desk to make her point known. Then turned to put her tearful face into Jon's strong shoulder as she looked away from Krystal. Mr Raven's only child.
"We're not married, Krystal" Jon had told the brown haired lady that just stood up from her desk.
"Tell her Jon please just tell her what her father is or I will" Sasha said as she wiped her face again of tears as she reached into her shirt's pocket to hand him the zip lock baggie.
"what the Hell is your sassy friend Ms. come again what's her name saying Mr Ryder?"
Krystal asked.
Jon was very tempted to show Ms Raven what he & Sasha had found on the bedroom floor, from last night but then thought better of it, As he stood up for his friend as he knows she would for him if their roles were in reverse.
"Ms Evermore" Jon says & then continues on "your father's project of DLX-12 has finally worked as he projected and..."
"And do you have any proof of this Jon?"
Sasha felt Jon's hand relax a little on her back as he thought he & Mr. Raven's daughter were done completely.
"So what you want & are saying Mr Ryder is that you want out of the program part of the DLX-12 as well?," Ms Raven says to Jon Ryder.
"Yeah it's the only reason we're here Ms Raven & you know that yourself or I'd at least hope you would know your father more better than just as your boss?"
" I'd hope for your sake Jon you, you all of people wouldn't be the one to be a fool with what you truly know of our work here at Raven Enterprises..."
Sasha is almost in even bigger shock on hearing this as she looks more fearful than she did last night Jon notices.
Krystal reached out for a silver frame photo that was on the corner of the desk that just
moments ago she'd ran her pointer finger over, whoever was in the picture Jon and Sasha couldn't see. Krystal sat back down in her chair as she continued to listen to what Jon had to say.
"The weather part of DLX-12 is only part of your father's pet peeve project & you know it Krystal !"
"Why of course I know that as anyone who works with daddy sure, but are you admit it scared to deal with what that said project part of DLX-12 pertains too besides the weather part since you took part in the whole of the project yourself Mr Ryder don't be coy with me or Ms Evermore here."
Sasha now looked at Jon skeptically now realizing she doesn't know everything about his work here or did at Raven Enterprises entirely. "What's she talking about Jon?"
Krystal rose from her desk with a smile on her face that surprised even Jon himself.
"What I'm saying is Jon here has got to know that he has to stop himself as well as my dear old insane daddy isn't that right Jon Boy?"
Krystal Raven walked out of the room leaving Sasha more confused about Jon's whole involvement in all this Project DLX-12?.....

More than just one form of a creative mind or idea at work

Hello all,
I got to thinking just today about my creative juices in a BIG WAY. While at work today I got to thinking I want to write a novel or at least a story that I have total control over, now if you'll look on the side of my information about me I say I like to read & that I like to draw as well. In this blog I'll share some of my art work from over the years. See I've always had an inkling to create I'm sure that it's within all of us we just have to reach down & find it within us. I've been drawing since I was a kid in the early 80's I'd do things like super heroes or cartoons & a little of my own stuff as well, I even remember writing my own short story in the 3rd or 4th grade titled " Where'd the stolen lunch go?" I wish I still had a copy of that too ah well on to better things I guess.
Like I said I had gotten to thinking today at work about a story I will write here at "Day life of the Matt" called "Clone of Me", This is how serious I am about this today at work at my lunch time I bought a writing pad & two retractable pens, & wrote characters names down. One other thing to point out when I was collecting comics I came across how to write for comics in every way I'm just recalling basics of what it was saying, altogether even though my Idea's my own. Here's some of that promised drawn art:

It's only been one week

Hey there everyone,
I want to share with you what I got last week on Friday night from my brother, when he came home from work. I of course really paid for it so it's not like it is a gift from him or anything at all like that, but it sure as heck is very nice indeed. Here's a small hint as to what it is?, It will help me come the second month of next year in 2,009, I can also use this thing as a monitor as my computer screen if I want/wish to as well. OK enough with the guessing games it's a 42 inch plasma screen High Definition TV with a 16:9 screen.

Since I'd been hearing about everybody needing to upgrade their analog broadcast signal to HI DEF by getting a government receiver tuner or get a HI DEF TV I decided to go with the latter for you can more choices with a TV than you can with a converter box, at least from how my folks & my brother & a few friends that I know kept telling me. My folks also thought that it would be better to get a HI DEF TV before the February deadline in the new year. So my brother had offered to look for it for me when I was ready. He knew I wanted it to compatible ports for my DVD player & Playstation2 as seen in the picture above.
Here are a few pictures my mom took of me with my new High Definition TV try guess what the ice scene is from here. It's a scene from the derictor's cut of SUPERMAN the movie from 1978, when he's going thru the street to the hide out of Lex Luthor but this scene was cut to make movie fit a two hour time frame. I myself happen upon a copy of the film at our old Suncoast in our mall, a few years back. The next one is when he saves Lois lane from her helicopter crashing when he makes his appearace known to the whole world for the first time. the scene's name is "You got me, but who got you?"
Finally here a pure great pic of the late Bill Bixby in the new Incredible Hulk movie that stars Edward Norton as the part that Bix played in the live action TV show of the same name in the late '70's into the early '80's. Norton's Banner is flipping channels to learn "Portuguese" and come across an episode of "The courtships of Eddie's father" which Bix starred in the late '60's.
I have yet to try my Playstation2 out on this nice TV but so far on it I've watched Star Trek, First Contact, some New & old He-man cartoons, the classic Flash Gordon from the "80's" The "new" Incredbile Hulk movie & the classic TV show as well which I do after posting this as well, & Finally Heroes which I tried to watch when it first aired in 2,004 but I was to tried to watch but I found agreat deal at Hasting not long ago of buy one DVD gift set get another for free so I went with Heroes season one after teasing myself again with season three which is running now it's called Villains for you Heroes fans out there. I enjoy season one alot of the few episodes I've seen thus far.

Why do I love Spider-man over any other comicbook character pt.5 of 5 Spidey at a party & lot more

Hey all,
Spider-man sure looks like a PARTYING ANIMAL in these pics here in this last blog of "Why do I love Spider-man over any other comicbook character?", Well and he should he's with me Matt B. his BIGGEST FAN EVER. How did this happen you may ask?, well I'll tell you his BIGGEST FAN happen to be having a birthday at the said time in fact it was my 320th birthday at the time. (Damn don't I look great for an old man) just joking or am I?, Really that birthday was my favoritee one of all my years on this beautiful planet we call earth. Also he looks very religious looking as well doesn't he? (More that later in this blog). I recall wanting a very special cake that year, not just because I loved Spider-Man or because his movies see "Why do I love Spider-man over any other comicbook character (pt. 4 of 5: Spider-man movies)" but I also was happy because of a girl that I was getting to know at that time. I went digging into my old photos of Spidey & me from when I was a kid before this though I wanted an "ALIAS" cake from the TV show only to find out my work place had no cake patterns to do such a thing, so I went with my comic book hero instead: Spider-Man.
So why am I 360 right now right if I'm really only 36 years old, I thought as I got closer to being 30 I had want to play with my age each concerning year because I love being a kidder with myself most of all. So I decided I'd add another zero to my actual age so when I was 30 I always said "NAH, I'm really 300 years old, People that I know just get a kick out of it like I do. Hey that reminds me on my next birthday I'm going to be a whopping 370 years old, lucky me huh. Well like I said I went looking through old photos that I had of me & Spidey that was in that when he was in Columbus Georgia when they were opening that new mall called Columbus Square which I also have posted in the first blog in this series. I took the picture to work & they photo scanned it onto the cake, they also asked me would I like it to say something besides "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" I said sure how about "Happy Birthday to Spidey biggest fan!"

Then I had also had invited some coworkers from Albertson's to my party as well as family & friends. We had it at ROY'S a all you can eat buffet type of eatery, little did I or anyone in my family knew what I was in store for from my coworkers. They knew Spidey more than I did apparently for he showed up at MY party out of the New York blue. My niece Heidi was very scared of Spider- Man when he was picking up uncle Matt.

She was more afraid when he had actual started doing his Spider acrobatics around the room when he first got there, but when Spidey picked me up that set her into tears for a few minutes anyway, she was young so of course it very understandable from her point of view. As you can see I at least came to my party deck out in my own Spidey clothes with a Spidey tie that I had gotten a few years earlier. My younger sister was stationed in North Korea at this time, she had sent me a very nice Spider Man coat that she had made over there with my name on the coat as well as a huge John Romita SR piece of Spider Man art on it. All in all I wasn't just surprised at my 320th birthday party I was blown away by it, & still think till this day it was my best ever. I know that my family will agree with me on that note, so would Spidey since he was there too. And now on to what I meant by "a lot more" in this blog. Another point of Spider Man history I would like to talk about is "Religion" in comics, Why did it take the event of 9/11 to have Marvel comics convince the concept it's needed in this format of telling stories that deal with the subject. Of course there had been many other "events that could of" lead to both main publishers of comics the other being Detective Comics to bringing "Religion", into their stories But like I've said before 9/11 brought all of America together as a whole, I also know that in their own way both comic companies have written about God for each of their main characters at one time or another.
Each comic book writer brings with them a set of stories that they want to tell while they have their turn at writing whoever that character is. Sometimes they even might bring a religious aspect to the stories to get their point across intentional or non intentional. There are times when some comics are written directly for sharing the gospel's most are put in tracts that people give to help us remember God's message itself. There are few comic book writers that have it be that withinn the story it self they includee God saving you in some way too.


Here is a fine example of what I mean with my favorite super hero spidey himself, this story was written by Paul Jenkins I can't recall this story's title but it doesn't matter this opening page just reminds the comic reader God's very important to fictional heroes just as he is to us in real life. Writer JMS who before writing Amazing Spider-Man had never written a comic book, but has claim as creator of Babylon Five TV show which reviled Star Trek's: DS-9 had this panel of how Peter feels towards his wife Mary Jane per "One More Day" storyline.

What's very interesting about JMS is that he himself is an atheist, but writes the Spider-man character as a protestant Christian. Spidey is Marvel's every man he represents us as flawed as we are so why can't he be their own outward looking view of the comic universe's "Prodigal Son" as well.

In order for Marvel Comics to WIN Matt one of Spidey many #1 fans back to their reading core is this PLEASE reestablish Parker's Marriage & let the characters evolve in whatever fashion they will after CIVIL WAR So Peter now has to deal with the whole world knowing he's the wall crawler & Aunt May could pass on he & Mary Jane have kids one day so what those aren't great stories I guess huh?. Well here's what would truly bring ME back but will NEVER EVER HAPPEN a Marvel/Image crossover of Spider-Man vs Spawn & if Todd McFarlane drew it would be a HUGE PLUS as well. If your a comic fan reading this blog and would like to know what your favorite comic character religious beliefs are go to www@.religiousaffiliationofcomicbookcharacters.com.

Why do I love Spider-man over any other comicbook character (pt.4 of 5: Spider-man movies)

Spider-man as a movie took actually quite a long Journey of close to two decades before seeing light. Spidey had already had enjoyed a lot of small screen time going back to when he was created in late 1962. In fact the first animated spider-man cartoon called simply Spider-Man the '67 collection for those looking for it on DVD was comprised of cutouts of the comic book itself to use as animation it had 52 episodes and ran on ABC network I think? But the one thing it had going for it was it's theme: "Spider-Man. Spider-Man. Does whatever a spider can. Spins a web , any size. Catches thieves- just like flies. Look out! Here comes the Spider-Man! Is he strong? Listen, bud. He's got radioactvie blood. Can he swing from a thread? Take a look overhead. Hey there! There goes the Spider-Man! In the chill of the night, at the scene of a crime, Like a streak of light, he arrives just in time! Spider-Man. Spider-Man. Wealth and fame? He's ignored. Action is his reward. To him life is a great big bang-up, you'll find the Spider-Man!" Then in the later 70's Spidey had two live action shows.
Those two shows were in the latter 70's were when he was Spider-Man he would never talk it was just plain action, action, action, one of the shows was called The Electric Company which didn't originally start with spidey on the show but by season four (1974-75) there was a short spidey segment in comic fashion, but like I said he never spoke they used word balloons to carry the point across. I saw these after having that coloring book like I said in the first part of "Why do I love Spider-man over any other comicbook character" feel even more in love with the character because it aired on PBS right after Sesame street & Mister Rogers. Then a couple years later on the CBS network when Marvel was making live action TV shows about their characters they had "Captain America", "Doctor Strange", but the most successful one was "The Incredible Hulk" which became a series after it's pilot and ran from (1977-82). Which starred Bill Bixby & Lou Ferrigno (with me being a big fan of the hulk I also have that series as well on DVD of what's out so far....). "The Amazing Spider-Man" TV show ran two seasons but both were so short you'd think it was one. Marvel made a cartoon of Spider-Man in the early 80's called Spider-Man and his Amazing friends which had him teamed with (X-Men members Fire star(which looked a lot like Mary Jane from the comics) & Ice Man. The Amazing Spider-Man & his Amazing friends was narrated by Stan Lee. The show was paired with a cartoon version of The Incredible Hulk on NBC & aired after the Smurfs at 11:00 on Saturday mornings. So I had my weekends filled I'd watch the Incredible Hulk & The Dukes of Hazzard on Friday nights & have my Saturdays filled as well.
In 1985 it was announced in the "New York post" that come the following Christmas Spider-Man was going to be made into a motion picture by Cannon Films. This of course turned to be false. The idea of a Spider-movie may have started way back then, but a great many things kept occurring that put the webhead's movie debut on a continual hold: Marvel comics the company had been sold back & fourth many times in the late eighties, Movie companies that had the Spider-Man movie treatment or bible as any movie project is called before any script is made kept going into bankruptcy. At one time in the mid nineties James Cameron & his "Titanic" cast of Leonardo DiCaprio was to be Peter Parker & Kate Winslet Mary Jane, while this fell through because of how Cameron's script was so lacking in any "origin" included. Marvel productions on it own made one more Spidey toon around this time. It had great stories & stay true the history of what was established in the core comic book "The Amazing Spider-Man". With the success of "Blade" in '98 Marvel knew it finally had found that Hollywood could handle making movies of their properties with great care, but the movie that really punched through was Bryan Singer's X-Men in 1999. Marvel again wanted make Spider-Man movies but who would be a perfect director that knew Spidey's Origin & wouldn't screw it up Enter: Sam Raimi. Raimi had started making films in the late seventies, but like me he has had a great love for Spidey since he was a child. Raimi had made horror films the early 80's like "Evil Dead" & "Army of Darkness" but he'd also had super heroes foothold as well in 1990 for Universal pictures he directed his own creation of "DARKMAN."
In 2000, Sony Pictures & Marvel came to an agreement to make the webslinger's first movie. The movie starred Tobey Maguire, Kristen Dunst, & Willem Dafoe the movie had everything that a Spider-Man movie should have in it, especially a cool line from Aunt May that touches any comic fan(s) heart. "Your not Super- Man you know" she tells peter in the movie trailer. Speaking of the original "SpiderMan movie trailer", they pulled it just a week after letting it be trailered (I happen to be lucky enough to see it on Final Fantasy) the trailer included a scene where Spidey webs these bank robbers helicopter between the Twin Towers in New York city. A few days later 9/11 had happen, so they edited the whole scene out of the movie & reworked the trailer so it didn't have that in it, to play it safe the movie wasn't released till May 3rd 2002, (I'd happen to seen the movie Nine times in the theater is that dedication to my childhood hero or what?) TV Guide put out five Spider-Man movie covers when the movie was released each one was by a different comic artists.
In 2004 Spider-man 2 they had him face Doc Ock which is known as Doctor Octopus in the comics. This one also starred Tobey Maguire, Kristen Dunst again but instead of Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin they had Alfred Molina play Doc Ock. This movie was almost without it's star Maguire because while he was filming Spider-man 2 he was also filming Sea Biscuit where he had a scene where he was thrown pretty hard, so when we see him with renewed strenght & faith from Aunt May's words he falls while getting back into the websling & his line "Oh my Baaccck" is both funny in the movie but very painful for Maguire none the less. I also saw Spider-man 2 nine times at the theater too. In between Spider-man 1 & 2 Sony put a short cartoon on M-TV to bridge what happens between those two movies. Spiderman 2 opened June 30th.
In 2007 on May 4th Spiderman 3 opened this one had added two villains like the Batman films of the late ninties had done. The two villains were Raimi's favorite Sandman & comic fan boys favorite Venom, they also added more girl problems for Parker in the film by introducing Gwen Stacy. In this one Peter was going to ask Mary Jane to marry him as he did in the comics "pre ONE MORE DAY'S" slashing of spidey comic life which is just sick I believe, but also like in the comics he get a new costume which feeds on him & changes his personality till he gets rid of it. Stan Lee makes a cameo in each of the three Spider-man films as well.
Hey I figured while I been talking about Spider-Man movies you like to know where they rank as a possible quartet (Did I just say a fourth SPIDER-MAN movie is coming out, more on this in a quick minute). My favorite superhero movies are as follows Superman the movie, Spider-man, Iron Man, Dark Knight, X-Men2 better known as X-Men:united, the new Incredible Hulk movie & finally for the list right now any way the 1980's version of Flash Gordon that old Queen song gets me every time. I was looking in a old magazine of Time and earlier this week and saw that they had a section called Briefing in the September 22,2008 in the "predictable part" it says I quote "Tobey Maguire considering two more Spider-Man films, two more summerhouses" then later this past week on Fox news 9/30/08 I saw a sip nit of a Spider-Movie set to hit theaters in 2010 or 2011 with all on board as far as I know.
To be continued in "Why do I love Spider-man over any other comicbook character pt:5 of 5 "Spidey at a party & lots more"

Why do I love Spider-man over any other comicbook character (pt.3: Spidey's Wedding to Mary Jane ) of 5

How do you know love, when it hits you straight up?, does it matter who you love?, how do you know that other person knows you love them? Well when Stan Lee created Spidey not only did he make him a guy who had to learn (With Great Power, Must come Great Responsibility with him gaining the powers of a spider, yet failing to stop his uncle Ben's murder before it occurs even though he had the chance a week before: This is in part 2 of 5 of "Why I love Spider-man over any other comicbook character: Spidey's Motto"), another aspect Lee put on the character was he had problems with the ladies. Whether he was working on an class project for school, working at the Daily Bulge as a freelancer photographer to earn money to provide for his & May's everyday living expenses, & of course running off to stop the villains running about in New York. He'd thought of dating Betty Brant from the Daily Bulge whilst working there he even did for a short time, till her brother was killed while he was being spidey trying to stop a crime. She'd always like Peter Parker but resent his heroic persona of you know who?, There was also at that time while he was seeing Betty there was Liz Allen who he knew from high school, Who liked peter as a friend mostly at first, when he found out the Motlen man was Liz's half step brother things were simply ended between them at least in the romantic sense of things.Then in his first year in collage he met the only other Woman besides Mary Jane he'd ever love her name Gwen Stacy she was known as Peter's "true love" & she liked neither Peter or Spidey at first she liked Flash Thompson before even noticing Peter at all, But she to came to resent Parker's alter ego as well for she thought Spider-man killed her dad George Stacy who was a retired police captain, when he was fighting Doc Ock. What had happen really was Peter used a chemical in his webbing to make Ock loose control of his mechanical arms & ock's arm hit a brick chimney loose that almost kills a young boy,luckily George Stacy saves the boy from harm but is hurt very badly & spidey tires to get him to a hospital only have George tell him he knew who was under spidey mask & to take care Gwen then he died. Then of course there's Mary Jane who because she knew of Parker's secret avoided meeting the young man her aunt was setting her up to go out with on "a date with" Peter on the other hand was just starting to like Gwen a whole bunch, and resented anyone his dear aunt would want to set him up with.
When Stan Lee went on to other things & left the Marvel universe & it many characters to other writers he didn't know that a writer by the name of Gerry Conway a young new writer in comics would cause one "VERY BIG" rip in the hearts of Spider-man fandom, by killing Gwen Stacy with his own approval of course. They then realized their mistake at Marvel so instead of trying to fix the said problem they made it worst. How?, With Conway two years into his spidey stories came up with the idea of a villain obsessed with Gwen decided to clone her to torment who he had believed killed the girl that he loved, but as if that wasn't enough this villain known as the Jackal had created a clone of Spider man as well. During this time in the story Conway may have pushed things too far as other writers are concerned by having Peter & MJ kiss for the first time while he was off to Paris on an assignment for the Daily Bulge. Anyway how the "first" clone storyline ended was Peter dumped his clone down into a smoke stack not really knowing if he was real or the clone. Some years passed with stories of Peter not Graduating from collage because of all things he failed Gym class because of fighting villains all the time during classes. He thought at this time in his life he wanted to settle down, so he proposed to Mary Jane for the first time with a box of "Cracker Jacks" with a real diamond ring inside the box ( I want to do something that way, when I propose to my girlfriend). Of course Mary Jane's response is a flat out "NO!"
At this time it was the late 70's Stan Lee had started writing "The Amazing Spider man newspaper comic strip & Marvel comics had created Debbie Whitman a co ed student in the collage scene for Peter & Felicia Hardy a villain at first known as the Black cat but later reformed as replacements for the missing Gwen love interest, since at this time in the story Mary Jane was off to California & Florida pressuring her modeling career. Also at this time Peter made aunt may very mad with him for he had decided to quit collage altogether. When Mary Jane paid a surprise visit to Peter's apartment during the Roger Stern stories boy did she ever get a surprise herself when she found Pete smoothed in lipstick from a fellow freelance photographer Amy Powell, she went back to her modeling gigs once more for a short time, while Peter was whisked away to the Beyonder's world with other heroes & villains where he got a new Black & white costume.
When Peter returns from the "Secret Wars" he finds out that his new costume is alive & it wants to bound with him permanently. He & the Black cat team up from time time but she likes his heroic side of the hero instead of his plain ol Peter Parker, Mary Jane returns & tells peter that she's known his secret forever & she also tell him that she's never truly faced the problem down or her own problems either. She tells him she's always running away instead of facing her guilt, Pete can relate to her in this way for that is why he knows he must be spider man. Spidey goes to to fantastic four for help in removing the alien costume since they were on the Beyonder world during the secret wars as well as he they remove the suit, but for a while Peter can't find the courage to return to the ol' Red & Blue just yet so he has the Black cat make him copies of it in cloth.
In 1987, Stan Lee wanted Peter to get Married in the newspaper strip, but he knew that he had a BIG problem yet again, how to do it with him married the in newspaper but NOT in the comic book. So Stan called Marvel's editor in chief & told him what he wanted to do with his creation. What had to happen because the way a comic book comes out & how a newspaper strip come out are very very different, they had to plan months in advance to get it right. So while Stan was finishing up his lead in story in the newspaper Marvel released a three part lead in on the annual coming out that summer in the regular "AMAZING SPIDER-MAN" title of comic books, (see also there were two other "Spider-man" titles running in Marvel's line of Spidey books at the time). So everything was set because not only were they going to do the marriage in both the Comic & the Newspaper strip but in New York on June 5, 1987 at SHEA STADIUM N.Y. Mets game (that's baseball for you who know your sports very well) they had a "live wedding of the webslinger & his beloved red haired gal officiated by Stan Lee himself at the game's halftime event (I wish I could've been there I know it would been fun for sure oh yes I do know that).
Marvel was fine with their flagship character being wedded,at first they let it be. Then they thought it was suppose to be a "gimmick" to boost their readership oh & how did it ever so when they put a Canadian comic artist Todd McFarlane on "Amazing" with issue #298 boy Marvel had a Grandslamer of a catch for new & old readers alike. Then Todd wanted to write not just draw comics so Marvel gave him their 4Th book of Spidey simply titled SPIDER-MAN, (at this time I & many other spider-man fans wanted Peter & Mary Jane to have offspring in the story). Little did we as fans knew that would pay off at least a little bit in Marvel's "first attempt" to reset the Spider man storyline in the "Clone saga", Yes I said clone saga, Marvel thought with the unfinished story from the 70's it could push spider fans to liking Spider-man being single again, but with overpopulated sales of to many comics & other related deals Marvel Comics faced bankruptcy.
In 2,000 Marvel had hired new editor in chief Joe Quesada, in September he'd help the company out of bankruptcy by BIG changes in bringing most of the company's characters back to basics. Joe is not a bad person at all I know or think in his benefits that he brought with him when he came to being Marvel's EIC he has connection to hollywood writers that can bring about more readership to ANY book that they write, But this Blog isn't about Mr. Quesada at all. It's about Spider-man's wedding to Mary Jane, Mr. Quesada unfortunately is very involved in the issue of Spidey wedding by how HE wants it to be that Spidey should be single & never having the past 20 years, NEVER HAVE HAD BEING EXISTED so he wants to say I write the character not you Stan Lee. The one thing to Quesada credit was a year after becoming editor 9/11/01 had happen he was kind enough to keep Spidey Married, when the world needed to see fictional heroes along side real heroes in dealing with people coming together with their families for dealing with fear in the Untied States after terrorists try to impose fear in our hearts & minds. Joe wants to show from the end of "One More Day" that no family is important to him. In "One More Day" Peter is desperate to save Aunt May's life after being shot by a bullet meant for him at the cost of making a deal with the Devil to save her life and the price to let May live the "Marriage" of he & MJ should this have ever happen in a science fiction based book Magic to resolve the issue. NO I think that in today's view of Marriage people also need heroes including GOD to strengthening that if you have problems dealing with everyday life there's always hope, whatever the problems maybe & so if you have fictional characters showing this what does it really matter in the long run? Do you the reader of this blog agree that family is most important in every way or form to you? For me family is what matters, what matters to me in fiction is constancy. Especially comic related fiction, so no what matter what happen to Spidey's future I know that he'll always be responsible in his love to Mary Jane his best friend in the world. To be Continued in "Why I love Spider-man over any other comicbook character pt.4 Spiderman movies"

Why do I love Spider-man over any other comicbook character (pt.2: Spidey's Motto: "With Great power must also come Great responbitily", of 5)

How is it that we can recall something so easy of a good movie we love, a great book because of how it made us feel while reading it or a phrase that we all know so simply. Like for example: "Space the finial Frontier", Mr. McGee, Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me if I get angry, or how about a favorite scene in a book that your reading. I remember reading a two part story back in the late nineties called Probe & Counter Probe here were a few scenes I recall from both story & won't ever forget. In Probe Just after she's found & taken to a hospital by two cops she protects herself from them when they come to ask her questions by psychic throwing them both out of her room through the window. Later when she and an doctor are on the run he asks her can she change her appearance she show him she can by growing a beard in a matter of moments of his asking. In Counter probe when another probe is again examined she makes the said Doctor pay with someway that's NOT printable I'll let you the reader decide, what that can be unless you want read the books.
Well when Stan Lee wrote the Amazing Spider man's Origin he put a very powerful sense of truth in the message of a high school book worm that got powers of a spider after being bitten by a radioactive arachnid then let a crook get away when he had a chance to stop him. Later this same crook shoots his beloved uncle Ben dead, he checks to make sure his aunt okay at their neighbor's house, her name is Anna Watson & yes her niece Mary Jane is with her and sees an enraged young boy go after his uncle's murder. Peter chases him to an abandoned warehouse catches the crook only to realize that he could have prevented his uncle's death if he would have taken action any kind of action just a few days earlier. So Peter Parker learned that "With Great power, comes Great Responsibility", so the character of Spidey is driven by his own guilt to do what is right even if he can't.
When Stan Lee wrote Spidey's origin I wonder if he did or didn't probably know how profoundly his new character was going to change comic book readers view of respect not only for themselves but for others as well. When Spider man was created back in 1962 Stan put his story in a magazine that Marvel comics was going to ax anyway named Amazing Fantasy # 15, he wanted to quit the comic book writing biz. He and a relative were at odds about releasing a character with the name of Spider man then nine moths later back then it took time to get responses on a comic book's sales back to the company. That same relative that was at odds with Stan had completely changed his tune, & told Stan to write Spidey as a monthly book, so behold then a legend was born. Peter Parker is everyone in a way, can we always pay the bills on time?, can we be where we are needed most in times of helping others? Who doesn't have an ailing relative that they want to help no matter what the cost, because they love that person?, Peter knows he will always have a chance to help others that need his help but rather than always knowing if he's respected or despised he'll never truly know. The best way for him to do this is putting on his ol' Red & Blue costume & have fun while knowing he'll never forget "With Great Power, comes Great Responsibility" for he knows what happens very personally if he does... a quick question to you the reader do you sometimes feel like a Peter Parker because I know from time to time I Matt know I do?.......To be continued in Why do I love Spiderman over any other comicbook character (pt.3: Spidey's wedding to Mary Jane) of 5