“Renew Your Vows” may not be what you think it is
For the first time ever, Marvel is planning a DC-style, universe-wide reboot for all its characters. Shortly before it happens, several superheroes will get books of their own meant to resolve their own storylines and hint at what new forms they’ll take. Spider-Man’s book was titled “Renew Your Vows” and clearly showed him married to MJ — and with a daughter. There was an immediate assumption among some fans that they were about to get the undo they’d always demanded to the most infamous comic of our modern age, One More Day. Even better, it seemed to be introducing Mayday into regular continuity. Others were rightly skeptical of this, and their pessimism proved correct when the book was revealed to be an alternate future, not a current one. But it may be worse than you think. Dan Slott was recently interviewed by Entertainment Weekly, and there was something he said there that gave me pause. “With any story where you give people what they want—there’s a difference, as a storyteller,