Spider-Man has managed to go the majority of his comic book existence as a solo hero. He never needed a team to help him fight crime. Marvel decided to change this years ago by having Spider-Man join The Avengers. Marvel saw The Avengers as their flagship title and team, and wanted to incorporate their biggest stars into the title (Wolverine joined also). Spider-Man has also recently joined the cast of The Fantastic Four after the “death” of the Human Torch (who has recently been found to be alive the entire time).
Joe Quesada (formerly editor-in-chief at Marvel) was never a fan of Spider-Man/Peter Parker being a married man. Quesada felt this made Spider-Man come across as an old man, and younger fans would not be able to relate to him. Plus Quesada felt there were better stories to tell of Spider-Man as an unattached single guy. So the decision was made to split Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson up in the horrible story called “One More Day”. The short version is Aunt May is critically wounded and near death, so Peter makes a deal with the devil (Mephisto in the Marvel universe) to save Aunt May’s life. In return, Peter forfeits his marriage to Mary Jane.
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Mixed feelings about this…
On one hand, I’m glad all the hype about “Who is Alpha” is about a new sidekick and not another potential villain from Spider-Man’s mythos or past (see Ezekiel, Morlun or the dreaded “Evolve or Die” Spider-totem arc). On the other, Spidey don’t need no sidekick!
With Peter Parker (616) finally meeting up with Miles Morales (Ultimate) in Spider-Men, I figured that moment would be pivotal enough to highlight the 50th anniversary of the webbed wonder. Plus, there have been several quasi-sidekicks of Spidey over the years, such as Frog-Man, Spider-Boy, Spider-Girl (Mattie Franklin, RIP), Spider-Girl 2 (Anya Corazon, formerly Arana), The Slingers, etc.
I understand the need to raise the profile of Spidey by introducing a youth partner dynamic. It puts him among the ranks of popular icons Captain America, Batman, Superman, etc. but looking at those first two examples should tell us that it doesn’t quite end well for the sidekick. How long before this Alpha kid goes evil and Spidey has to put him down?
Or until we see a recreation of the iconic Crisis on Infinite Earths #7 issue (http://metropolisplus.com/Supergirl/SupergirlCrisis1.jpg)?
So yeah, I’m looking at this and already giving it a thumbs down. But, it’s Spidey’s 50th, and not even this stunt can spoil the party! Spidey rules, for 50 years and beyond!