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In Today's Amazing Spider-Man, No One Is Talking About Sins Past, Least Of All Dan Slott

Published Wed, 18 Jan 2017 11:00:58 -0600

Last updated Thu, 09 Feb 2017 10:51:41 -0600

At New York Comic Con last year, when Marvel were promoting the current Clone Conspiracy storyline, Spider-Man writer Dan Slott was asked if he would be dealing with the Sins Past storyline. He told the audience,

"Yeah I'm not dealing with that… I'm never going to deal with Sins Past".

That's the storyline in which it was revealed that, while Peter Parker's girlfriend, she has an affair with Norman Osborn, became pregnant and had twins in secret.

It is not the fondest moment in Spider-Man history.

However, Dan Slotts' reluctance to mention it does lead to scenes in today's Amazing Spider-Man #23 in which Peter Parker confronts Gwen Stacy, back from the dead, courtesy of The Jackal, a little odd. I mean, a little odder than what you say when you meet your ex-girlfriend back from the dead, with plenty of baggage between you.

Maybe it's a good thing comics don't use thought bubbles anymore. Otherwise, they might read something likes,

PETER: "Betrayed? Betrayed? How about that time you slept with Norma Osborn when we were together, got pregnant with his kids, went off to Europe to have them in secret and never told me anything? And now you have the cheek to say I betrayed you?"

GWEN: "I hope I'm not laying it on too thick. Just hope that Mary Jane never told him anything about my… little goblins. Nah, he can't know, otherwise he'd have definitely said something during this gap in the conversation. I think I got away with it. Say, I wonder what happened to those tykes anyway?"

There you go. And what's the betting I'm not the only Spider-fan having that kind of conversation in their head while reading this comic? Scott McCloud did say that comics are defined by the gaps between panels after all.

Amazing Spider-Man #23 by Dan Slott, Christos N. Gage and Giuseppe Camuncoli and is published today

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