Quote Originally Posted by Absolution View Post
Well it was Mephisto and I don't know the last time Spider-Man ever went magical or mystical before the retcon.

Gay.
Before the retcon they were pretty much transforming him from a science-based superhero to a mystically-based superhero (kind of like black panther only with a spider totem). There was some nonsense about how the spider biting him wasn't a coincidence, and he was chosen by the spider-god or whatever.

I hope to god all of that was erased along with his marriage. I was not a big fan of Straczynski's run.