Sins Past (Amazing Spider-Man)

Amazing Spider-Man issues 509-514 comprise the Sins Past story arc, a six-parter plotted out by J. Michael Straczynski and artist Mike Deodato. The story of this arc concerns Peter Parker/ Spider-Man being pursued by two mysterious people who seemingly have ties with him.

The story arc was followed up by Sins Remembered from the issues of The Spectacular Spider-Man.

Plot:
Holy! Looks like-! It can't be... is it? A stunning new evil emerges to stalk Peter Parker as the biggest Spider-Man event in years rocks the wall-crawler's world! The worst defeat that Peter Parker ever endured - a moment frozen in the minds of Spider-Man fans everywhere - was supposed to be far in his past. But now, two villains - ripped, perhaps, directly from that very moment - have emerged and they threaten to destroy everything that he holds dear!

Why This Story Arc Sucks

 * 1) To get the cat out of the room, this storyline is infamous and nonexistent for retconning the true motivations for Gwen Stacy's death by Norman Osborn/Green Goblin and it's much as it is (see below).
 * 2) It only existed because of an editorial mandate indeed interfered J. Michael Straczynski's plans for other Spider-Man stories such as where Peter was originally supposed to be the father of Gwen's children, but this idea was scrapped (because Marvel's editors felt that the two twins would age the protagonist too much) and replaced with a much, much worse one (see below).
 * 3) Mary Jane had been aware that Gwen had children and never told Peter about them until it was a manipulation by Mysterio (See RQ# 3).
 * 4) Mary Jane's stage performance subplot has nothing to do with the story arc whatsoever.
 * 5) It is revealed that Norman Osborn/Green Goblin was the father of the Stacy twins and he had raped and impregnated Gwen whom Norman is a middle aged father in love with a teenage college student, which is one of the worst plot twists in this story arc and was poorly foreshadowed.
 * 6) Gabriel Stacy, Gwen's son, doesn't believe in liars like Spider-Man (whom he thought he killed her mother) and is delusional enough to think that Norman Osborn and Peter Parker were his uncle and father. He would last appear in the American Son comics.
 * 7) Despite inheriting the blood of the Goblin formula from their father, the Stacy twins will rapidly age, but are never seen again as of Sins Remembered from The Spectacular Spider-Man, and American Son (which featured Gabriel).
 * 8) Some continuity errors with the flashbacks of issues 121 of the original The Amazing Spider-Man.
 * 9) It is one of the reasons why J. Michael Straczynski's run were in a dip in quality, who had always humanized Spider-Man as real adult struggling with his everyday life.
 * 10) The idea of having the Stacy twins being Peter's children is an interesting concept, but was a terrible idea and stunts the characters' development.
 * 11) Norman Osborn, who is in prison, cannot heal Sarah's bullet wound and doesn't even tell she and Gabriel the truth about their mother's death.
 * 12) To add salt to the wound, it is also a character assassination for Gwen Stacy, who's death was very significant and a tragedy of the death of the comic book's silver age in issue 121 of the original The Amazing Spider-Man.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Mike Deodato's art is good despite the uncanny realistic faces.
 * 2) Sarah, Gwen's daughter, does learn more about Norman being her biological father than being as her "uncle".
 * 3) In issue 73 of The Amazing Spider-Man (2018), it was thankfully retconned that Gabriel and Sarah are in fact clones created by the pre-OMD Harry Osborn before his death (who was resurrected as some demonic centipede creature named Kindred, which were actually two people that were revealed to be Gabriel and Sarah all along impersonating the pre-OMD Harry), and is shown that Gwen and Norman weren't their "real" parents.
 * 4) in the flashback scenes(which are intended to be flashbacks to the original issue where gwen stacy died), mary jane is seen wearing the outfit that she was wearing in that original issue, which is really good attention to detail.

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