Available - A real swinger! Spidey divorces Mary Jane after 20 years

CAVALIER said

This was the worst storyline in the history of comics. Fans for twenty years have had love hate feeling with regard to the marriage and the Marvel big wigs never could figure it out. So the Editor in Chief, the slimy Joe Quesada, who does not allow the characters to smoke-because it's a bad influence, had Spider Man and MJ make a deal witht he DEVIL to erase their marriage and anyones memory of it.So basically if you were dumb enough to read Spidey for the past 20 years...it's been retconned

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This kind of stuff pretty much killed my love for comics... the Avengers were basically destroyed for the sake of putting the "cool" characters in and dumping the old stand-bys like the Vision, Hank Pym and the Wasp, etc.

Tony Stark/Iron Man becomes a meglomanical source of all evil in the world and so on...

What happens is so many of these young guns hate continuity/character history, because it "limits" their creativity, so they retro-con history to fit their new ideas... it's terrible.

And as far as the soap operas, that's what made Marvel comics as opposed to the 1960s-era DC comics which were one adventure after another with no sense of continuity or "reality" (DC had cities like Central City, Metropolis and Gotham... Marvel took place in NYC (Avengers Mansion is on 5th Avenue), Queens/SOHO (both locations for Spidey), Brooklyn and so forth.