Was May the baby that was kidnapped, or is she from an alternate timeline?
Yes, and yes. :)
For Spider-Girl, the writers took that incident from Amazing and explained her future existence by saying that the baby was rescued and returned to MJ and Peter. By Kaine, of all people. Tom DeFalco actually put the history together fairly well, although I'm still missing an issue that delves into another part of the backstory.
As for an alternate timeline: technically, yes. The "MC2 titles" (SG is probably the only remaining MC2 title still in print, but don't quote me on it) basically branched off the originals in 1998, but from then on books that follow the "current" timeline are not expected to match up with MC2. So it goes "alternate future" post-1998 or 1997, I think. I'm no expert, and I got back into the comic only recently. (Hey, the comic started out as a one-shot "What if?" issue.)
It's probably a good thing that the main books aren't expected to match up with Spider-Girl, because that would just get messy eventually.
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Date: 2003-07-22 10:00 am (UTC)Yes, and yes. :)
For Spider-Girl, the writers took that incident from Amazing and explained her future existence by saying that the baby was rescued and returned to MJ and Peter. By Kaine, of all people. Tom DeFalco actually put the history together fairly well, although I'm still missing an issue that delves into another part of the backstory.
As for an alternate timeline: technically, yes. The "MC2 titles" (SG is probably the only remaining MC2 title still in print, but don't quote me on it) basically branched off the originals in 1998, but from then on books that follow the "current" timeline are not expected to match up with MC2. So it goes "alternate future" post-1998 or 1997, I think. I'm no expert, and I got back into the comic only recently. (Hey, the comic started out as a one-shot "What if?" issue.)
It's probably a good thing that the main books aren't expected to match up with Spider-Girl, because that would just get messy eventually.