Yeah, when I reread this comic last night I thought almost the exact same thing! That explanation was actually pretty decent. The reason Marvel didn't use it was because it was too "cosmic" for a Spidey comic. I guess 10 years later Mephisto wasn't too "cosmic" for Spidey's book anymore!
A lot of the ideas in this comic were WAY better then the one Marvel actually went through with.
You know what the crazy thing is? The fact that Marvel actually used a variation of this story during "One More Day"!
Wouldn't Ben have looked five years older than Peter once they got around to meeting?
ReplyDeleteI probably would've accepted it as the answer to the clone sage, minus the Mephisto part of course.
Yeah, when I reread this comic last night I thought almost the exact same thing! That explanation was actually pretty decent. The reason Marvel didn't use it was because it was too "cosmic" for a Spidey comic. I guess 10 years later Mephisto wasn't too "cosmic" for Spidey's book anymore!
ReplyDeleteA lot of the ideas in this comic were WAY better then the one Marvel actually went through with.