Since the launch of the current volume of Amazing Spider-Man in early 2022, there have been lingering qu🐈estions about why Peter Parker and Mary Jane - who were back together just before the start of the new voluꦫme - are broken up again, and why all of Peter Parker's friends are so 𓃲upset with ꦏhim.
Now, as of May 10's Amazing Spider-Man #25 from 𒁏writer Zeb Wells, artists Kaare Andrews and John Romita Jr., inker Scott Hanna, colorist Marcio Menyz, and letterer Joe Caramagna, we've finally got the full answers to those questions - along with a few new mysteries still left to be solved.
Spoilers ahead for Amazing Spider-Man #25
April 19's Amazing Spider-Man #24 set the stage by revealing that Peter and MJ's predicament started when servants of a dark god known as 𓄧Wayep managed to trap Mary Jane in a desolate alternate dimension.
And in that time, they had to rely on each other heavily to survive - especially after finding two children who happen to look exactly like MJ and Paul, who have also been seen i🎉n the core MU since the family's rescue.
This led to Paul and MJ falling in love and forming a real family bond which has lasted into their return to the real world - causing MJ to break up with Peter in favor of Paul and their adopted (though myster🔜iously 🦹resemblant) children.
As for the question of "What did Spider-Man do" to make everyone angry with him, it all comes back to him stealing technology fr💧om his friends in the FF and the Avengers, and basically being a sad jerk about it when they confront him.
So wha🔯t does that mean for Peter and Mary Jane in the future? It's hard to say. There's enough mystery around the st🍸ill ongoing plotline to suggest that it might somehow wind up with Pete and MJ back together - though Marvel has seemed deeply avoidant of that coming to pass, now even going so far as to introduce alternate realities and warped timelines to keep them apart.
May 🍬31's Amazing Spider-Man #26 haꦺs been foreshadowed as an issue full of heartbreak and gut-wrenching revelations just like #24 and #25 before it, so there's still plenty of time for another tragic twist of some kind.
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