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Oh Great. I was laughing so hard, I think I ripped something.

Giffen's right on all counts.

So here's how the next retcon goes...

1) When Tony Stark realized Hulk and Thor were coming back, he secretly had Brother Voodoo pull a soul switch between himself and Peter Parker, then hypnotized Peter into believing he was Iron Man.

2) He sat back and boinked Mary Jane while Peter got his ass kicked all over the planet.

3) Then pulled a deal with Mephisto to end Peter's marriage, just for fun.

4) Then starts an affair with Harry Osbourne for Peter, and comes out of the closet with it.

5) Then switches bodies again and reveals all to Peter. On national television. "Peter...your secret identity is out again...your beatings were my beatings...your wife, some boinking, sold her to the devil...you're married to the Green Goblin now...and oh yeah, your aunt's real sick."

6) And finishes off with, "Plus, all that stuff about your mom and dad was crap. Peter, I AM YOUR FATHER."

Why? Because Iron Man rolls like that, BABY! Also because Joe Quesada.

Cute list, but:

I always love this assumption (usually on the part of middle-aged men) that kids won't read stories about characters who are too different from themselves.

Whereas my favorite comic as a kid was about an umptiquillionaire, septuagenarian Scottish duck and his nephews. So, y'know.

Giffen isn't middle-aged.

He's more like ending-aged. (But I kid the Giff)

Yeah, I started right after Spidey got married when I was 7 years old. The Honeymoon annual was one of my first regularly collected books! It didn't make me shy away from the character. And I also loved to read the reprints in Marvel Tales to see how he came to be who he was, and how he ended up with MJ. None of my friends who read comics at the time EVER bitched about Spidey being married. I can honestly say, until I came on the internet, I never heard anyone complain about their marriage.

But I guess that's why I'm a fanboy. Because I fit in the category of "don't listen to him, he actually READS these things".

Funny thing is, Giffen's comments about the whole situation are far more negative of the storyline than most other comic creators currently (Larsen aside). It honestly appears as though there are two camps when it comes to creators, those who loved it, and those who don't currently work at Marvel.