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Jealous Much, MJ?

Tommy Wilson, fellow SpiderFan.org writer and a frequent commenter on my blog presented some strips from the Amazing Spider-Man newspaper strip. These are actually more than 10 years old and I normally don't talk much about the strip here since another SpiderFan writer handles that pretty well, but I thought these warranted posting and talking about.

Posted above are a few strips where Mary Jane unleashes her fury on Peter on what is clearly romance of the one-sided kind in order to create a publicity stunt. Peter tells MJ this but it doesn't look like she really believes him. Looks like Ditko-Gwen possessed MJ because she's slapping the spit out of Peter. Now I've heard of overacting but MJ's behavior here is borderline psycho.
Get this woman some Valium. I know Stan was only trying to add romantic tension in the strip, but making MJ the hot tempered, crazy jealous wife is a bit much. Even though its really out of character for her to act that way, I think its really funny. Still, if Peter were the type to retaliate, it wouldn't be pretty. Normally isn't a good idea to abuse your spouse when said spouse can lift 10 tons.

Comments

Tommy said…
XD

That might be from 1995 or so. I still have to scan up the 'Great Parkerini', the least known of Spidey's alter-egos.
June 30, 2008 at 1:28 AM
Sol (Frederick) Badguy said…
The story was written back in 1995?

I'm really pleased that an artist's art in that era wasn't contaminated by the McFarlane style. I think Todd McFarlane ruined the figure of Mary Jane Watson back then, and he ruined the look of the Spider-Man suit and webbing by making the eyes too big and the red part of the suit too webbed like.
June 30, 2008 at 11:57 AM
Reggie White Jr. said…
In these older strips Peter doesn't look nearly as odd as he sometimes does today.
June 30, 2008 at 8:17 PM
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