You can tell from the amount of articles that I’m legit jazzed as hell to be talking about this stuff right now. The NES games, the Final Episodes, the comics. It’s all stuff I want to discuss! I also want to get some of this stuff out of the way before Halloween comes by and all I want to discuss is SPOOKY STUFF for the SECOND TOTALLY COOL AND NOT LAME SPOOKY HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR. Yes, so spooky it gets mentioned twice. Still it’s a fun time to be blogging and I hope it’s a fun time for you all to be reading.
As you know I’m going through all of the first issues of the Marvel Comics alternative universes. The ones that got ongoing series that people are still cult fans of to this day. It’s very weird that so many fans dismiss alternative realities or alternative futures or anything because I eat them up like they are the tastiest cakes and cookies that were ever put out. I love What If (volume one and two). I really did like Star Brand (and what little I read of the New Universe). Same with 2099. I was also even a fan of this series before the blog. It’s been a while but I’m pretty sure I had a few (flimsy as shit) digests that Marvel put out on the cheap. The Ultimate Universe is the only one I never got that jazzed on. They never seemed to go to far with the new concepts and ideas until it was almost over. I think starting with Miles Morales would probably have interested me more, of course that caused a shit fit in 2011 when he did come out so you know it would have blown the internet up in 2000. It was a boon for Marvel anyway as the character has had two successful films and a good amount of fans. I read Ultimate Universe stuff and it was just not really my bag. I might give it a re-do but that’s after I read a ton of other stuff. So expect reviews in like 2032 or something. I mean that is if I’m not dead by then.
Anyway, MC2 pretty much comes from the mind of Tom DeFalco, who I have mentioned that I am a fan of before. He’s done some very great work with Spider-Man. He’s also done some work I don’t really like with Fantastic Four, however we will leave that stuff for later. He conceived of all of this, starting with What If? #105. That story was about the baby Norman Osborn had kidnapped (or what we thought was a baby at the time. It turned out to be Aunt May who didn’t actually die in one of the few stories so bad it literally made me feel ashamed to enjoy this stuff. Seriously it was that mindbogglingly shitty.) but this What If? tells the story of her as a teenager and it was a huge fucking deal. It’s literally the one What If comic from the second volume that can go for any money. It ain’t a three dollar comic from the back issues boy!
So he went and got Marvel to do an entire Alternative Future where all the characters grow up and have children and their children are the heroes of the future. However none of the other comics in this Alternative Future ever sold very well. He tried and I can’t say if he was at least successful in making fun comics (just because something doesn’t sell like hot cakes does not mean it’s a bad comic, or movie, or book, or television show. It just means they didn’t market it properly) because I’ve only read Spider-Girl and American Dreams mini series and I do not remember that mini series at all. The only exception was the Spider-Girl character went on to sell 130 issues in between two series and still has dedicated fans to this day (even though she was on the chopping block several times, dedicated fans saved the book) (Seriously there are people that are fans of this character who get mad at the push characters like Silk get today because Marvel realized women can be into silly ass nerdy shit too. I can’t get mad at them because they got their character pushed around like she was a pile of poop. Seriously Marvel decided to make a different Spider-Girl character and give her a series not even a year after they canned The Amazing Spider-Girl. That’s not even mentioning other stuff from other stories.) Either way I’ve always wanted to get into this characters earlier comics so today is a good time to do so!
This was a spectacular comic book because it hooked me in one issue. I seriously cannot wait till I own the rest of these books to read them. All 129 of them. This story starts off a few months after What If? #105, where they burned the original Spider-Man costume that she used to stop the Grandson of the Green Goblin. It was done because being Spider-Man ended up disabling Peter Parker. He now walks around with an artificial leg and a cane. However Mayday “May” Parker still thinks about that day. Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson-Parker are both very worried that their daughter is tempted to play hero but they gotta realize that she’s gonna do what her dad did.
We then move to Midtown High School where poor nerd Jimmy Yama and Moose Miller are almost having a fight until Mayday broke it up. Brad Miller comes by and takes Moose away. Jimmy is not too happy with either Moose or Brad so who knows what’s gonna happen there! Anyway She stops by the police station (where Peter now works!) and talks with Phil Ulrich (who she calls Uncle. I guess he and Pete become really close). Phil is the nephew of Daredevil/Spider Man Daily Bugle guy Ben Ulrich. He was also the heroic Green Goblin in a series that didn’t last very long but was also written by Tom DeFalco. Mayday is curious about the history of Spider-Man so Phil lets her know the old origin story.
Then Peter and the Captain come in (not America, just the Police Captain) and they all pretty much leave and she (and her dad) sense someone is watching them because of you know the Spider Sense. Anyway she tries to get herself to go back to school but she can’t do it because she doesn’t know if this guy will hurt her dad. She ends up putting a trash can on his head and smacking him around a whole hell of a lot. The guy is still able to get up and go away. She tracks him to a clothing store! Then after this she goes back to school and we meet up with her friend Davida. They end up going to play some Basketball and well Mayday shows off some skills! So good that Coach Thompson (who I am sure is Flash Thompson from the old comics) even singles her out. She hopes this doesn’t mean any of the girls now hate her. I actually quite like that Mayday seems to be well liked by just about everyone in school unlike her nerdy old father who loved test tubes.
Mayday, Peter and MJ have dinner and they talk about unsolved murders and how the mob might be involved with the fashion industry. She then decides to dress up and go kick some ass at that clothing building. Which she does, but she also ends up meeting a new bad guy Mr. Nobody. He can teleport and that’s all I know just yet. He fights her and then she comes around and is easily able to stop the bad guys. The cops are alerted and they come just in time to capture everyone except Mayday and Mr. Nobody. We then get a panel or two of Mr. Nobody working for THE KINGPIN! Oh boy! We also see two panels of Peter trying to talk to Mayday about what he clearly knows. Mayday then ends the comic making a new suit to fight crime in!
FINAL VERDICT: A really great start to what is a series I can’t wait to read. Tom DeFalco really makes you like Mayday while introducing a whole ton of new characters and giving them things that will probably end up causing Mayday some trouble. The art is really great. I cannot wait to read more. So far this might be my favorite of all the alternative universes/futures. Sorry Doom 2099.and Star Brand… Anyway next comic review is probably back to Darkhawk!
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