Jackpot Redesign (Early Access) (Patreon)

Since Mary Jane is officially done with Paul Rabin in the comics, (thank god), I wanted to research the character a bit and give her Jackpot costume a redesign. This is in no way meant to be a final design, but I figured that I should at least post what I have drawn and what I have in mind for how I would handle her character during a possible encounter with Paul...

So for some context, Paul is not from the main comics universe and does not have a counterpart there. He is the son of an obscure Spider-Man villain named Benjamin Rabin/Emissary who is honestly pretty forgettable due to only having 3 or 4 appearances before Paul was introduced. In the story both Peter Parker and MJ are sent to Paul's reality of a ruined Earth where the two had been marked for a ceremony by Emissary to summon his god Wayep (or Wayeb). MJ sends Peter back to the main Earth and she would spend 4 years with Paul and would have adopted 2 children (Owen and "Romy" Stephanie). Those 4 years would take about a couple of days in the main comics universe and Peter would eventually save MJ, bur she would be in a relationship with Paul. The couple and kids would go to 616 and live together till it was revealed that the foster children were created due to Emissary's magic and he would kill them by making them disappear. MJ and Paul would continue to be together after Emissary's death and Mj would become the superhero Jackpot and would break up with Paul after bonding to the Venom symbiote.

If I had to do the whole scenario, then it would follow MJ (who in my stuff is married to Peter Parker and has had kids with him multiple times along with being Spinneret), who would find herself trapped in an alternate reality with Peter where 4 years would pass there where she is forced to survive. She possibly would meet Paul there, however she would in no possible way be tempted to date or marry him due to already being loyal and married to Peter Parker. I think the two would still come across Owen and Stephanie, however their creation unlike the main comics (also made as a way to keep MJ with Paul by the writers), would be from the weird broken reality of this Earth which causes MJ to have 2 kids that are hers and Peter's (she's probably like a couple days pregnant when entering the reality with Peter initially). By the time Peter comes to save MJ, she would be a bit older and have 2 new kids of Peter's. The most I would honestly have Paul do is be thankful for being rescued to the main reality and as thanks would make a suit similar to the Jackpot one for MJ, but spider themed. He would probably disappear from their lives afterwards.

Alternatively I just wouldn't make a Paul a character and would have MJ and Peter be the ones stranded on the alternate Earth alone where they would have to survive until they find a way off the ruined Earth. I also don't know if I would want any of Peter's children that have already been born, like Mayday or Annie Parker to be stranded as well, which would age them up by 4 years in this alternate reality. Mayday should be about 7 and would age up to 11, their 2nd child Richard would be about 6 and would age up to 10, Annie would be 4 and then aged up to 8, and finally Claire Parker would be 2 and aged up to 6. Due to being in this reality, MJ and Peter would have two kids (being Owen and Stephanie). Peter would eventually be sent back to the normal reality after a while there with MJ and the kids but by the time he comes to save them all the age gap would happen. That is my alternate solution to the Paul story.

If you guys have better ideas then that would be helpful too, I'm mostly trying to find ways to do better versions of really bad storylines rather than just ignore it (mostly because it gives me the excuse to draw more of the characters 😉).