From Newsarama - So, this issue comes out today, and some of us will be reading it at lunch.

Is the 'big reveal' really all that big? The 'biggest event in marvel in the last 20 years' according a wizard interview. (iss #175)


And if it is that big a deal, go ahead and set the internet "aflame" with your responses.


Word of warning: SPOILERS AHEAD!


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Psst, read the other Civil War thread. The answer's been revealed there.

I'm still scraping my jaw off the floor.

Ok, just flipped to the last page to see what the hubbub was...

Generally unimpressed. It seems like kind of a dumb thing to do (editorially). And in 2 years they'll just be looking for ways to take it back.

I was hoping for something sensational, like Nitro blows up the white house, or heck, Namor blows up the white house looking for Nitro.

This is just kinda, "Hey, that's not right."

I mean, this is supposed to be Civil War right? Not "Civil Press Release."

Since you have spoiler written within, I'll post this:

I was also thinking:

Captain America revealed his identity in his own series last year/year before.
Iron Man did in Civil War Frontline
Spider-man just did in CW #2
The Fantastic Four are public and have been.
Many X-Men have public identities
Daredevil has been outed.

Who is LEFT?!?!

Identity Crisis promised to talk about the value of a secret identity...Civil War is obliterating it!

My take:

Spidey will reveal, but with the big cosmic event that is coming up and the effects of the House of M, I think there is going to be a big "Reset" that will happen and things will go back to normal. The Registration act will not have happened. All the characters that have died and people liked will come back. Spidey will not have been revealed.

This is the same kind of stuff that happens. They may have some good stories out of it, but it will all end like Dallas, it was all a dream. Patrick duffy will wake up and find he is the leg of a forest dwelling monster, and nothing in the Marvel universe will have changed except the new characters that people liked will still be arround, with a glut of their own short lived titles. They will then form little teams that will also be short lived. Spidey, Wolverine, Ghost Rider, Punisher and Capt America will all make their special guest appearances in each title. Then the characters will slip in to obscurity until they are resurected by a young comic book artist because they made an impression on him when he was just getting in to the biz or was young and just getting in to comics.

Yup, thats Marvel for you.

Wel, I just read it. I didn't expect Spidey to reveal himself....but I can't say that I'm rocked by the fact that he did. Honestly, it really didn't do much for me. Good issue, though.

you're prolly right about the whole thing being reset because of the house of m thing. and if that does happen, i will be really cheesed. i know they are only comic books but man, i have always hated that thematic device of 'opps. it didn't really happen'. i was even cheesed back when i was 10 or 11 and the whole bobby ewing/ dallas thing happened. i remember that is when i stopped watching that show in the 80 and i hope this doesn't take the fun out of collecting comics.

Or worse: St. Elsewhere.

I try to consider myself open minded, but unless the next few Spider-Man stories seriously kick butt, this will be completely wasted. I'm guessing MJ or Aunt May will be biting it, and frankly, they deserve it. The series had such a great start, but this issue managed to piss me off in its last few pages. Here's hoping the rest of the series can pull it together and live up to what seemed like a great start.

And I'm compeltely aware that my bias towards how Spider-Man exists in my mind is completely slanting my opinion of what was otherwise a great comic so no one bother pointing that out.

I think(or at least hope) Marvel is smart enough to see how POed some people were that Infinite Crisis was a big reset button and won't do it.

Marvel is just more likely to retcon things outta existence rather that to just reset them.

Might not be Earth shattering, but at least it's something new for the character.

Joe Q: It's official. You're a flaming moron. Before you were just a moron. Now......<insert Human Torch saying here>

So...... The Spidey reveal. Really, really dumb.

That being said, I actually (can't believe I'm saying this about a Millar issue) thought the writing was well done and paced. favorite part: Cap booting the Shield Agent out of the prison car.

Cap: You talk to much.

Great great stuff.


Now to the whole thing that dumbed it down for me. Joe Q has been going on (ad nauseum) about how Mary Jane being married was this "genie in a bottle". So what's this "reveal" mean? How in the world do you make this right? It was all Peter had going on for him. I really expected Ben Reilly to come out and say "howdy" for the reveal. Which I thought would have been better than this. MJ and May are toast. That's it. And that's too bad. It's all Peter had to ties of his older issues. Now.....nothing.

And I know whatever thing Marvel decides will be godawful as a reason for either 1. Taking it all back or 2. keeping it and writing how evil the villians are in their pursuit of May or MJ.

Great issue - dumb Spider reveal = meh.

It didn't have to be this way...........

On Yahoo news they have Spidey unmasked as a headline. So much for spoilers.

Can't believe some of you are taking it so harsh. There's still always ULTIMATE SPIDEY. Considering Aunt May and M.J pushed for him to do this in the last spidey issue, it fits the bill and I thought it was well written. It doesn't close more doors than it opens for spidey stories.

I don't understand why this storyline has such a media frenzy swarming around it. I've found it to be very meh. All the emphasis is on stuff that in the grand scheme of things doesn't really matter, no one cares about the important stuff. All things considered Spiderman is not very important, him revealing his identity will probably never have any rammaifications outside of his own book, it isn't an announcement that changes the face of the Marvel Universe. The same is pretty much true of Iron Man revelaing his secret identity, the only people that are really gonna care are those that read his book (when he has one), I don't even know the names of whatever extras are attached to Tony nowadays and couldn't care less about them. I wish they would use the main book to go into things about the event that actually matter to the whole universe and use each characters books to go into stuff that is only going to matter to that characters that show up in those books, everything Marvel is putting out is already tied into the event anyway. I picked the book up mostly hopeing to find out who was on each side, and I still only have a slight inkling (speaking of which who the heck is that guy on Iron Man's side with the blond hair and the lightning bolt on his chest?), instead half of the issue was just Spiderman mess. The only important info was where Cap's guys got their base and the foreshadowing of the super Gulag.