The Year of the Spider-Man is 2010 Jigsaw Puzzle Solved! [Updated: They're Having a Baby!]
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For the last four days, Marvel has been releasing pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that hints at events coming to the Spider-Man comics in 2010. Now, with all four pieces released, Hypergeek has placed all the pieces together together to reveal the full image!
[Update: it looks like Marvel have revealed another image, which is the completed puzzle, with all of the missing jigsaw square that weren't in the other four images, so I have switched out my photoshopped together image for their version. The extra squares reveal an image of a baby!]
To see the first piece of the puzzle (top left corner), click here
To see the second piece of the puzzle (top right corner), click here
To see the third piece of the puzzle (bottom right corner), click here
To see the fourth piece of the puzzle (bottom left corner), click here
Central to the completed image we have Peter Parker in the top right corner, wearing the Spider-Man costume, without mask. Then we have Mary Jane Watson in the bottom left corner, who is wearing a wedding dress. The two are reaching out to grab hold of each other across the image, with their fingers just touching. This suggests that we will see a return of Peter and Mary’s marriage, which was erased from continuity after 2008′s ‘One More Day‘ storyline, in which Peter and Mary Jane made a deal with Mephisto to save Aunt May’s life, but with the price that Mephisto would eradicate their relationship from history, and no-one would remember Spider-Man unmasking during the Civil War.
In fact, in a recent Cup O’ Joe column at CBR, Joe Quesada was quoted of saying of the Spider-Man 2010 plans:
“I did say some time ago that many of the unanswered questions about the wedding were going to be answered in 2010, and we’re gearing up to that. It’s very cool to see that we’re finally coming on to that time … Well, I think it’s pretty obvious that MJ is going to be back, so that’s going to open a whole new can of worms with respect to relationships the characters will have or won’t have. Should I even say the word “baby”? Should I use that word? I’ll just put that out there: Baby. Mary Jane. Baby. Mary Jane with a… yes, baby. I’ll stop there.”
Again, this indicates a reversal of Mephisto’s curse, because he revealed to Peter and Mary-Jane that if they had not made the pact, they would have soon been expecting a baby girl.
UPDATE: This is again strongly hinted at by the extra jigsaw squares that Marvel have released, which show a baby in the top center of the image!
Behind Peter in the top right of the image we can see him kissing a girl that might be Mary Jane, but she has glasses on, so some fans are speculating that this might be supporting character, Carly Cooper.
Elsewhere in the images, we can see spider-Man baddies The Lizard and Kraven the Hunter in the bottom right corner of the image. The lizard is just acting lizardy, but Kraven is holding the Spider-Man costume in one hand, while preparing to punch so meone with the other.
In the center of the image, just under Mary Jane’s arm, we can see Spider-Man incapacitated as a villain looms over him. I’m not certain which villain it is though, all I can make out is a large stomach. Ideas? [as a smart poster has pointed out, I was looking at this wrong, and what I saw as a belly is actually Juggernaut's head. So it looks like Juggernaut has incapacitated Spider-Man, but has at the same time, fallen face forward on to the floor at Spidey's feet.]
In the top right of the image we can see four Spider family characters, including two previous incarnations of the Spider-Man costume, with the black costume and the red and gold Iron Spider costume. We can also see Madame Web, and Spider-Girl (Araña).
Well, that was fun!
Marvel’s completed image:
My Photoshopped image, without the extra pieces:
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Actually that looks like Juggernaut, not a giant belly.
Oh my! You’re right! I was looking at that from the wrong perspective completely. Where Juggernaut’s head is, I was seeing a belly. Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll make a correction.
This is a dangerous step Marvel is taking… OMD and BND has really turned off a lot of fans in the past. Them finally addressing the wedding issue will either turn off more fans or might regain old and new fans. I cant wait to see what happens next!
Markus: I definitely agree. I was rather put off by the whole OMD/BND storyline myself, so I’m curious to see how this change will affect the title. Hopefully it will be for the positive. Finger’s crossed!
Did you see the newest version of the image? Marvel released a completed version, with a couple of missing squares, that reveal MJ and PP are having a baby. Talk about flipping it all on its head!