There's A New King In Black!! Venom War issue 3 & Venom War: Spider-Man issue 3

[@TheMBTS]

Doom is so petty

[@josephbottos4596]

Frickin Paul ruins everything

[@josephbottos4596]

Still the story is 10/10 - they releasing straight HEAT!!🔥🔥

[@JLAreject94]

Exactly!! I'm hoping this event ends with Peter and MJ back together, or Paul gone at least, but the story has been 🔥 so far!!

[@CS08129]

​@@JLAreject94I mean I'd like that too. But with how Marvel has ruined her character over the last few years, I can only think of 3 ways to redeem her. 1. MJ's super bracelet was programed to make her love Paul everytime she wore. Only made awhere of this when trapped in the Archniote via mental confrontation with the real MJ personality before both get stopped by a 3rd MJ personality. This being the pre One More Day Mare Jane. 2. MJ actually died on Paul's world and out or guilt Paul made the Jackpot bracelet and tried using it to bring her back. Only for it to just make a flawed copy of MJ that fell for Paul instead of going back to Peter. This could be revealed by having the fake MJ die at the end of this story and just fade away, and Paul comes clean to Spidey. Resulting in Pete lashing out at Paul for all he's done from ruining his own world, to then ruining Peter's just cuz he was too much a coward to be upfront. 3. Mephisto kidnapped Mary Jane and replaced her with a magic double when Paul wasn't around, and had it seduce him so that a wedge could he placed between Spidey and the real MJ. The last two options I feel could be the better options cuz it could set up a story ark where Peter gets approached by Dr. Strange, who tells Peter how Mephisto has MJ (or her soul) trapped and the two of them make it a mission to go get her back. With the second option I think ot could lead to Paul volunteering to go with them to try and help Pete as a way to male amends for how he wronged him, and maybe even have Paul pull a sacrifice moment so everyone else gets away. Meanwhile, Pete and Strange not know rescue MJ, but also get their hands on a physical manifestation of the deal Spider-Man made with the demon years ago. As they make it back to Earth and Strange explains what the deal did, Peter has to make a choice. Destroy the contract, and undo OMD, but end up losing Aunt May as a result of her being the catalyst for the deal being made in the first place. Could evrn have a whole scene where Peter and May have a talk, where Peter confesses to being Spider-Man, his aunt admits she's suspected for some time, and then she convinces her nephew he needs to take his life back and finally let her go. At that moment Mephisto shows up trying to stop everything, only to be held back by Dr. Strange long enough for Peter to make the choice to let May go. To which he does by tearing the contract in half (albeit with some emotional difficulty). May smiles at her nephew while saying she loves him one last time, before fading out of existence. Peter falls to him knees crying, with maybe MJ pulling him into a hug while crying too. Strange looks over his shoulder to give a sad look of empathy to the grieving hero, only to turn back around with a scowl at the demon when promised he'd pay. He then threatens Mephisto to enjoy the last few years he'll have left before Mayday shows up one day to beat him, and the the whole world gets enveloped in golden light. Last scene plays out to show Peter waking up in bed with MJ, both noticing they have wedding rings on, and they now know the reality reset worked and May is truly gone. They then get called by Strange who expresses his condolences for Pete's lose, and then goes on to tell the couple how reality has changed and they'd be the only ones to know. He also warns them that over time they'd begin gaining new memories of the new timeline to help understand the world as it is now before wishing them good luck, and then ending the call. The two take some time to process everything before getting memory flashes of MJ on the hospital with a baby in her arms, followed by the sound of something crashing in the kitchen. The two make their way out to it and find a 8-10 year old Mayday Parker had been playing with her dad's old webshooters, and gives the two a sheepish smile and apology. The story ends with a panel of Peter and MJ, side by side with shocked faces, as they both say, "Ah s%*%." I call this story, "Spider-Man, To Hell and Back."