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COMICS: SPOILERS as Dan Slott Explains The 'Icky' Scene In Amazing Spider-Man #699

COMICS: SPOILERS as Dan Slott Explains The 'Icky' Scene In Amazing Spider-Man #699

The "most disturbing" scene in Spider-Man history is not THAT disturbing according to writer, Dan Slott.

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By juansam26 - 12/7/2012
Spoilers for Amazing Spider-Man #699 follow.

If you read the issue this week you'll have seen possibly the ickiest scene ever as when Peter goes through Doc Ock's memories, stumbles across this image of Aunt May before she marries Doc Ock from issues long ago:



Some fans were infuriated with this, but Dan Slott took to Twitter to explain the two panels:

"So...
You read ASM #699, Page 8, Panel 5, and YOU walked away thinking:

Sex?!
Rape?!
Incest?!!

WHAT?! Where was THAT in the book?

It's a panel of a FULLY CLOTHED Aunt May in a wedding dress as she's about to KISS the reader.
She says that there's something she and her groom SHOULDN'T do before the wedding...

You know what a groom isn't supposed to do before the wedding? He's not supposed to SEE the bride.

SEE.

S-E-E.

And then we cut away BEFORE the kiss connects.

The next shot is of a closed door.

ANYTHING that happened BETWEEN the panels happened in YOUR OWN MIND.

Like a Rorschach test, YOU were reading into that scene with whatever baggage YOU brought with you.
Any icky/disgusting things that took place between Aunt May and Doc Ock (in Doc Ock's memories) were things that YOUR imagination came up with.

Shame on you. :-P

Any 8 year old kid who read that scene probably thought about how icky it'd be to be kissed by one of their old, wrinkly aunts.

What did YOU think happened there? :-/"

While kissing your aunt is still bad (and the fact that it's Ock makes it disturbing), it certainly isn't as bad as sleeping with her as that's what most of you took away from it. If you see the image, Aunt May has her lips puckered up, so Slott is right.

I imagine in the next panel he 'kisses' her, hence the screaming. This was nothing more than a throwaway joke that fans seemed to have taken way out of perspective. I myself didn't even think of it so badly until I read the internet.

Make sure you pick up the Amazing Spider-Man #699 as it sets up the final issue perfectly!
Source: Twitter.com
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Jollem - 12/7/2012, 2:17 AM
mr. slott droppin' the freudian-bomb :)
teabag - 12/7/2012, 2:45 AM
Disapprovals

;P
teabag - 12/7/2012, 3:34 AM






:P
jimoakley666 - 12/7/2012, 3:39 AM
I thought everyone just took it that this was yet more shitty sensationalist writing from Slott, nothing Freudian. People just know what to expect from Slott.
juansam26 - 12/7/2012, 3:50 AM
i don't think he was trying to be freudian. just a quick joke that people took way too seriously.
Darth258 - 12/7/2012, 3:52 AM
hahahahah gets funnier and funnier thinking back to the comments of the other article..
juansam26 - 12/7/2012, 4:36 AM
i know right?
teabag - 12/7/2012, 4:38 AM
Even if it was a flashback of May getting her teeth out to extract some Octopus ink I still don't see why people were getting upset :)
teabag - 12/7/2012, 4:50 AM


:)
juansam26 - 12/7/2012, 5:02 AM
^^Your argument was invalid the moment you called him a 'fat bastard'. I'm appalled at how many people here have called him such disgusting names and attacked him on his physical appearance or weight. Which has absolutely no bearing on his writing skills. Your opinion is your opinion but this is just disgusting behavior. Frankly, I have a man-crush on the guy. The Slott is hot.
Jollem - 12/7/2012, 5:03 AM
@jimoakley666 & juansam26 - not with the comic. the freudian deal is with his explanation that he gave in the article-with what people were assuming and whatnot :)
teabag - 12/7/2012, 5:04 AM
heheheh Slott :)
xcrementus - 12/7/2012, 5:18 AM
@juansam26, too right man. I've seen people calling him fat, and a hack, and that he "doesn't get" Spidey.

Well, he does get Spidey. and he's not a hack (Avengers Initiative was amazing), and he's done some great stuff with Ock, with Hobgoblin, with Aunt May, and with Jonah. And Marvel obviously believe that too, considering they aren't replacing him with another writer during this relaunch.

Spider Island was a great story, and this story's turning out to be a great ride too, Slott is making Ock a badass crazy genius again.

Slott believes in teamwork, and he takes criticism in good humour, especially from some D-bags on here. Unlike JMS who is a selfish giant scrotum of a man.
juansam26 - 12/7/2012, 5:45 AM
^too true (dunno about JMS). And with this current arc, I don't remember the stakes being this high for Peter in recent memory. I almost wanna cheer for Peter in seeing him literally get his life back.
jarel93 - 12/7/2012, 6:41 AM
I laughed really hard at this scene. It made me remember the unique, classic, humorous humor that Spidey has brought us over the years. I hate that it was so blown out of the water! Sign of the times, I suppose.
thefirstavenger97 - 12/7/2012, 7:19 AM
Wait huh?
DukeAcureds - 12/7/2012, 9:31 AM
Sure, Slott, sure. It's behind closed doors to censor the groom seeing the bride or to censor a kiss between the two of them. Sure.
Peter and Aunt May sitting in a tree. [frick]-I-N-G.
Classic moment.
What I'm confused about is 616 Spidey in general. What with The Clone Saga, Secret Invasion, One More Day and this, I have no idea which Spider-Man is what. Could the real Shady please stand up for a second while we're taking the register, here or what? So... Doc Ock was the Spidey that had his past wiped by Mephisto, ebven though his past was actually a Skrull that was actually a clone of the real Peter that really... no wait..
fvck it.
juansam26 - 12/7/2012, 9:59 AM
did u even read the issue? it was perfectly clear that ock took over peter only 2 issues ago.
DukeAcureds - 12/7/2012, 5:47 PM
Oh. No, I didn't read the issue.
Oh, I get it, he's just accessing Ock's memories. And May's mammories. Heh.
616 Spidey is still plenty confusing, though.
AUSSYACE - 12/7/2012, 9:12 PM
STOP F@%KING UP SPIDERMAN MARVEL...
juansam26 - 12/8/2012, 4:13 AM
Okay, let's just give Spider-Man stories where he's perfectly safe with nothing to do, I'm sure that's the Spider-Man story you want to read. Why have him face impossible odds right?
Cyanidesin - 12/19/2012, 12:57 AM
That was a really lame backtrack by Slott, and then laying it on the reader for interpreting the scene in the way it is implied.

If it was a kiss they would have shown the kiss (though it still could have been a kiss). If it was just the groom seeing the bride then it wouldn't have cut to a different scene with Peter's shocked reaction (there is no way this was happened in that memory, despite Slott's claim that it was).

I found it funny, but Slott's just being ridiculous for blaming the reader for what the panel obviously implied.

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