What did MJ really say to Mephisto? (Bleedingcool article)

[whiteshark]

Dang. Web of Spider-Man was a $3.99 title?

Yep,Web of Spider-Man had more pages that a normal comic book.

[David Walton]

That's not how I interpreted that sentence at all. To me, they, BC, are saying that the letters in the "speech cloud" are a sentence that has been reversed and then superimposed, by Marvel, so that it makes it unreadable.

Could be mistaken, but that is my interpretation.

This is a cool story, though it doesn't change much. I think it covers the most popular (and conservative) of guesses concerning what MJ said at the time. A lot of people speculated that she'd stil know Peter's secret identity when all was said and done.

[Zauri]

apparently you are missing the sentence entirely even though you quoted it. Allow me to highlight it.



REVERSED AND SUPERIMPOSED means they flipped the picture over and put it on top of itself allowing you to see both the original and its reverse at once. Which, while making for a fun image, is not the original image. IE: this is a modified image.



As to the rest of your post, I find it hard to believe you can zoom in and see that for yourself when BC says plainly that they reverse the image and then superimposed it on top the original image. So while its fun, it doesnt prove Chris was lien.

Once again, your interpretation of the article is wrong. The LETTERS of MJ's dialogue in that box, when zooming it up are REVERSED and SUPERIMPOSED, as you can clearly see in the picture.

[ShaggyB]

Once again, your interpretation of the article is wrong. The LETTERS of MJ's dialogue in that box, when zooming it up are REVERSED and SUPERIMPOSED, as you can clearly see in the picture.

I dont get that from reading the sentence at all. Combine that with the letterer confirming it was indistinguishable text called for in the 'script' and that what was placed in the bubble was made up by him.... im sticking with what we know.

[Wayne 26]

One part of me says that I shoulden't get too excited and believe this, but there's also another part that wants me to think that this is true. As in Really true! If this does turn out to be real, then what a twist that would make! Image MJ saying to Peter :

"Peter, there's something you need to know. About us."

"What MJ?"

"I, both of us, we made a deal together one day. I deal that you forgot, and one that I haven't forgot. "

Now how brilliant would that be? It would also make MJ's character more stronger being the one having to keep such a secret. Truth is is that I didn't like OMIT, but if a 3rd act on OMD would be something like this..."THEN TAKE MY GODDDAMN MONEY!!!"

[Kevinroc]

This is a cool story, though it doesn't change much. I think it covers the most popular (and conservative) of guesses concerning what MJ said at the time. A lot of people speculated that she'd stil know Peter's secret identity when all was said and done.

These are my feelings on the subject. Damn you for reading my mind! (There is no other explanation for how you can know that!)

[carabas]

Here is another one.
This cover of Web of Spider-Man#9 is not showing just a newspaper with random letters.

No, it's indeed not random text. It's in Latin. It's something about cats, I believe.

[LorrieK]

The only question is whether it's legitimate, because the screen capture in the article is plain as day. It's superimposed backwards on itself, but it's certainly readable. If it is legitimate, I guess we were lied to a little bit about the text always being gibberish.

Even after OMIT, my personal canon remains that M.J. knows because it makes for a better story. It's genuinely tragic if M.J. knows the truth but could never speak it because it would void the deal. M.J. retroactively knew Peter was Spider-Man all along, so it's not like she doesn't have experience pretending she doesn't know things. And if you ignore OMIT (and I'm very good at ignoring bad stories), it works just fine.

[Kiryu]

It'd be nice to see them bring it back up. IMO Joey Q should have owned his decision to force a single Spider-Man on us and told a story that owned those consequences. OMD/OMIT is a clustereff, imo, and a truly embarrassing example of comic books. It's a bad story that's pushing a bad decision - not to have Spider-Man be single, but erasing/changing/screwing the history even more. It also has no impact as a story because it retcons the memories of the events out of the characters and the universe. OMD is truly one of the worst examples of storytelling in modern comics.

[whiteshark]

No, it's indeed not random text. It's in Latin. It's something about cats, I believe.

Yep,i think you are on something.
Humm.

So i went to get the digital copy of Web of Spider-Man#9,and after reversing that cover and zooming in as the protocol demands to get the truth of this.
And you were right,this is indeed in Latin and aparently cats were the masterminds behind Mephisto motivation in the OMD story.

[Dog]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

[Karl Cook]

Here is another one.
This cover of Web of Spider-Man#9 is not showing just a newspaper with random letters.


Nope,if you replace each random letter by the number they are in the alphabet (For example :A is 1,B is 2) then you get a large sequence of numbers,and if you add all those numbers the result of that can be translated back in the alphabet.And then you get the alternate ending of OMD.

*Cue X-Files music*

I think you're taking the p*** there, Sharky.
The cover is in Latin. I can even translate most of it.

[Karl Cook]

No, it's indeed not random text. It's in Latin. It's something about cats, I believe.

Correct. It's actually from a Latin template which can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Lorem_ipsum

[Karl Cook]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

Mr. Dog beat me to it...

[whiteshark]

I think you're taking the p*** there, Sharky.
The cover is in Latin. I can even translate most of it.

It was more of a parody to this matter.
I mean a comic book panel of a five year old story that is not even in continuity anymore,have been zoomed in and reversed to have the "true" dialog revealed looked funny to me.
Thus my jokes.