Amazing Spiderman #659

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I'm a huge Spidey fan.  And want to get some opinions on a new subplot that started in Amazing Spidey #659. So there may be spoilers if you haven't given the issue a read yet.
Peter Parker has a new girlfriend a forensic investigator named Charlie Cooper.
Now Peter has had to go on an adventure with some other supers (the FF) and so had to make up an excuse to protect his identity, that he is out of town on a business trip/conference or some such. Charlie trying to be the good girlfriend stops by his job with a care package and asks Peters employer to forward the package to him at the conference. The job tells her "Peter isn't at any conference."

Now Charlie, upset, goes out with the girls, gets very drunk and decides  "You know what not -so-perfect Peter would hate?"  if I got a tattoo!
Ok, she is out for a little drunken revenge. Granted,  but still has the clarity of mind when picking out a design in the portfolio to say to herself "Chinese character...No. Unicorns, No. MOM Seriously? People still get those?  Butterfly above the crack of my butt? Why not E-Z on my Forehead?"
Instead she decides to get
A GREEN GOBLIN TATTOO! because "Yes, yes! Peter HATES Osborn! He'll have a conniption when he sees it!"

Without going into too many details let me just say:  this Tattoo is a sign for a new "cult" that has sprung up recently that sides with Norman Osborn (the once Green Goblin). Charlie is affiliated with the police so she knows all this. She is dating a guy who had his "first love" killed by the Green Goblin/Osborn, I'm sure THIS would have popped up in conversation with Peter if she knows he hates Osborn.
I think that convo would go like this
Charlie : Why do you hate Osborn him so much, Pete?"
Peter: "You mean besides the fact that he killed my girlfriend, Gwen Stacy, Daughter of Police Captain Stacy?"
Charlie "Oh..."

I mean talk about going a bit to far for "revenge"!  That is like a girl getting angry with her Jewish boyfriend and getting a swastika tramp-stamp just to annoy him.
I haven't seen the next issue but if I was Peter its no forgiving something like that. That is a "Your crap is in a box at the door grab it and run don't walk out of my life!" situation.

But I don't want you guys to think I'm angry at this sub plot, In fact I think its awesome. that is really good storytelling and writing. Its THIS kind of story that gets the fans chatting and laughing in the comic shop as they discuss .  It has pushed the envelope a bit without getting too deep  (ie Gwen Stacy had a affair with Norman Osborn and birthed 2 kids from him)

So I want to hear some more opinions. What do you think about the Tattoo fiasco?



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singory's avatar
I didn't read much of spider man since the OMD retcon , but isn't stacy alive now?

Not to mention that it seem no one see Osborn as a bad guy other than peter , hell i think the US government is waiting for him to finish his time and then give him the DOD