As it turns out, this film was written by J Michael Straczynski, whose tenure as writer of Amazing Spider-Man presented us with:
- the revelation that Spider-Man's powers are actually the product of a magical spider cult
- Gwen Stacy as the mother of Norman Osborn's bastard children
- Peter Parker revealing his secret identity on national television
- a grand finale where Peter Parker must negotiate with Satan to re-write history and save his octogenarian aunt from machine gun wounds.
In retrospect, it's hard not to wonder if Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada signed off on Straczynski's maniac ideas as a way to purposefully fuck up Spider-Man so bad that he would be left with no choice but to hit the reset button, and thereby fulfill his long-time dream of dumping Mary Jane from the book.
Anyway, I'd like to say this justifies my decision to not see this movie, but really I'm just happy to learn that there's so much upward mobility from writing He-Man adventures.
according to quesada the reset button hasn't been hit. spidey still has the spider totem powers he just doesn't remember it. sure is full of plot holes. supposedly everybody remembers spidey unmasking during civil war but can't remember who it was. don't you think this would bother at least one or two people?
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