>>83693081They also said that Peter was dead and that Otto was spider-man for good.
They're salesmen of things where truth is irrelevant. They'll get back together when someone has a pitch good enough. Or maybe he'll marry someone else, and she'll die and they'll hook up at her funeral! Or he will die, she'll marry Steve Rogers, and Miles will be Quasar.
They sell shit. They don't do conspiracies. They will wheel on a dime if they need to. They will have the next avengers event take place in a home Depot if they need to.
They thought that Spider-Man needed a shakeup- because Straczynski was basically cruising towards an "end of spider-man" situation, resolving everything he could think of and there weren't a lot of bones left to gnaw.
