There is no such thing as future 616. 616 only pertains to what happens right now. Every future depicted in Marvel is an Alternate Future / Universe that at some point will become impossible for it to be Marvel’s actual future (either by Marvel or hell by the real world, any future you saw with the Twin Towers you know doesn’t happen…) so they will label it as Different Earth (either in an actual comic or Marvel.com, Marvel Universe books, Exiles, etc) and the whole 9 yards. Galactus as you know him is alive right now in 616 - our time - and can appear in any 616 book if they so choose it.
Every Spider-Man comic you read before still happened, slowly they are explaining things without relating to OMD. It’s been hinted that Aunt May was healed by Mr. Negative by Slott. His identity going back in the bottle, it’s been hinted that Slott already explained how in his Avengers Initiative, issue 7 I think (but there is something going on to the point that no one can figure out who he is, so there is something else we don’t know about in place - could just be Mephisto on that end). He did have Spider-Armor as evidenced by the Scarlet Spiders in Initiative (and again, Slott’s own story in Avengers Initiative 7, well I think it was 7). Harry built Aunt May’s house and he corresponded with Peter for some time that he was alive and his death was faked via Norman and Mysterio. There’s a time gap between OMD and BND. JQ said about a year but I think that’s… too much time? I’m going with 6 months for now, never ask JQ ‘The Marvel Universe is only 7 years old’ those kind of questions LOL! Liz and Harry’s son Normie appeared in the book recently. Spider-Man did team up with Tony Stark, he just doesn’t remember his identity now, no one does. There was an early joke, I think it was an Iron Man comic where he tried to look up Peter Parker’s identity on line or something like that but couldn’t access the page ROFL!
Look at this way, if there was no BND then sooner or later they would just have someone cast a magic spell and make everyone forget his identity anyway. I still wish they could of kept his identity public for a few more years though. Some things like Spidey/Peter and JJJ having it out and Flash accepting both Pete and Spider-Man (he reverted to being a bully at the time due to memory loss) were a long time coming for the cast and crew. Peter David handled these things brilliantly in the pages of Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.
But yes slowly they are explaining everything without referrencing OMD. Whether that was the original plan or the way they decided to go with things since OMD was recieved poorly we don’t know. So far the only thing OMD got rid of was his marriage, which was really what Marvel wanted to get rid of in the first place. As far as we know Spidey and MJ were living together all of those years, not married. But it’s still not to late for Marvel to go and say Mephisto just made them forget they were married keeping continuity in place, there have been some hints to suggest that too. On paper, they keep saying that they were just ‘living together’ when asked about it but they are not really going to go deeper than that until books that deal with that situation are released.
I’m still not crazy the way Marvel went about all of this. I wish they just based the stories before Spider-Man got married the way the Stan Lee’s comic strip is doing now (I mean there was a 5 year gap - our time - when Mary Jane wasn’t even in ASM). I get that they wanted the book to be in current continuity but so far the only real reference to BND I have seen is Peter working for the ‘DB’ in Avengers / Invaders. Bendis hasn’t touched anything in BND at all. Well maybe it’s for the best for now. I’m sure that will change eventually though, I bet every writer is DYING to get their hands on FREAK ONE OF THE GREATEST SPIDER-MAN VILLAINS EVEEEER!" His tag line is “SHUT THE #$*^% UP!” man that’s some brilliant writing right there… :rolleyes:
Hawkeye / Mockingbird is set to be explained in an upcoming mini. They do reference the times Mockingbird appeared in the afterlife. I’m kind of not interested in the explanation, will just pass on that. Death means nothing in comics lol!
In Dark Reign Norman opened the door and showed them the most powerful man in all of Marvel. BENDIS! He has new origin stories for all of them and they will all be BIBLE / FACT / CANON and there’s nothing they can do about it. 