Lizard Retcon, was it explained?

[rockgrant]

So I just read the latest arc in Sensational, which I found to be pretty entertaining (I'm a sucker for both Hyde and references to classical literature.) It left me confused, however. Since when are Dr. Connors and Peter back to being friends? Last I heard, Connors was in jail after admitting that the crimes he perpetrated as the Lizard were intentional, and that Connors and the Lizard are one and the same. Did I miss something, or is this an outright retcon?

[Red Lotus]

So I just read the latest arc in Sensational, which I found to be pretty entertaining (I'm a sucker for both Hyde and references to classical literature.) It left me confused, however. Since when are Dr. Connors and Peter back to being friends? Last I heard, Connors was in jail after admitting that the crimes he perpetrated as the Lizard were intentional, and that Connors and the Lizard are one and the same. Did I miss something, or is this an outright retcon?

Someone asked a question like this in a past Joe Friday.

Roberto Sacasa :
First of all, Spidermark, let me say that the Lizard- if not my favorite Spidey villain - is in my top three. Second of all, I read and loved the Paul Jenkins story you mention (collected in the trade "Here There Be Monsters," well-worth checking out), which ends with Curt resigning himself to jail and Peter grudgingly leaving him there.

To me, though, when I read that, it actually felt like Peter wouldn't leave his friend rotting inside the Big House for long - especially since everything Curt did wrong was because of his inner-lizard. (Also, the chances that Curt's Lizard personality would have emerged while he was incarcerated would have been high and would have proven cataclysmic, IMO.) So I thought Peter would advocate to get Curt released - on a "technicality," as Jenkins alluded to in his last Lizard issue - and try to set him up with a positive gig:

Like, say, working at the Natural History Museum, though with the police keeping close tabs on him, which is where we find Curt at the start of "Feral." So hopefully I was building on what Paul started in Spectacular Spider-Man, especially in terms of Curt's relationship to his son, which I also explored in "Feral," and wasn't just undoing Paul's work. Cool?

[rockgrant]

Thanks, Red. I'll have Stan send you a no-prize right away.

[Mister Mets]

I love the Lizard and most of Jenkins's run, but I think it's best to pretend "A Lizard's Tale" never happened, and be glad that Sacosa wrote the character as he should be.

[Sean Whitmore]

I love Sacasa's reply. He gives lip service about liking Jenkins' story and then admits that it didn't make much sense to him, so he undid it.

And rightly so, cause Jenkins' story was shite.


SEAN

[Captain Mobra]

Lol. "I love the character, I read the arc, shameless plug for a new tpb, it didn't make sense, I fixed it as best I could."