The Amazing Spider-Man #16.HU ("Hunted" tie-in)

[laughing_tree]

In fact, Superior Foes of Spider-Man really started as a Black Cat pitch. Eventually it got flipped on its head so that she wasn't the main character any more, even though she was an important part of the story over all. I've always been a really big fan of Felicia as a character. I was obviously excited to get to write her here. -- Nick Spencer

Comments

[janegray]

I don't know how Felicia can think that she has the right to be mad at Peter for a small joke caused by an innocent mistake, when a little while ago she pretended to propose to him just to beat him up and ridicule him.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

When was that?

[janegray]

https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/7539736.html

I don't necessarily think it was a bad scene. Though I didn't enjoy it like most people seemed to, I didn't dislike it either, I was indifferent to it.

But it's irritatingly hypocritical of Felicia to throw a hissy fit over Peter accidentally doing something similar but much more minor and with good intentions.

[laughing_tree]

His not-proposal happened long before hers, though. And one was when they were a couple and the other when they were enemies.

[starwolf_oakley]

Yes, Felicia getting her memories back would weird her out.

To be honest, I thought her losing her memories was why she went "crime boss" in the first place.

[mizerous]

No Otto decked her in the face.

[lizard_of_aus]

Not according to Nick Spencer.

[mastermahan]

That damned Land pornface. *sigh*

[raspberryrain]

Surely that cover cost the book some sales.

[wizardru]

My memory is fuzzy, here...I remember originally Felicia's deal was that she was totally into Spider-Man but wanted nothing to do with Peter Parker...like she actively refused to see him unmasked or know details about him (which now makes their relationship seem more than a little fetishy, which there's nothing wrong with, but it's contextually a lot different than when I was reading it at age 12). I imagine the original intent was to have a reverse of most of Pete's girlfriends, where she was Spidey's girlfriend who he was keeping the secret of Peter Parker from (which is a clever inversion, IMHO).

I assume from this that as some point that changed and it became about them as an actual couple? I kind of thought they had a fling for a year or two (rooftop style) and then they just became flirts from then on. This seems to imply they were serious enough to know each other personally and that she even thought he might propose (and has is this a rehash of an old scene or invented new here)?

[remial]

"Doctor Strange" really Marvel?
REALLY?
you think if you keep forcing that lie down out throats we will just forget?

at least be honest enough to have the "Doctor Strange" story be what Peter tells everyone else, even if he and MJ know it isn't the truth.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

I mean, it's not exactly a lie, as I understand it?

Yeah, it was Mephisto, but wasn't Strange basically his tool towards that end?