I am trying to read and catch up with comics but it's hard when I don't know all history between characters. Recently I found out that Jarvis and Aunt May had been an item kinda maybe? Before she fell into a coma... Is that still a thing, is aunt may alive, is Jarvis? Was that even a good relationship?
Aunt May and Jarvis were briefly a thing during the original New Avengers period, so in the 520s of Amazing Spider-Man by comparison, staring when Peter, MJ, and May move into the Avengers tower after the destruction of Peter and MJ’s apartment and May’s home in Forest Hills after a targeted attack is mad on Peter by a former classmate of his.
(Amazing Spider-Man #524)
I mean, the relationship’s fine -- as May’s romances go, it’s not that interesting to me personally, but there’s nothing wrong with it and they both liked each other. You’re right that it gets dropped after Spider-Man institutes Brand New Day and soft reboots Peter and May back into the house in Queens but it was also let go of as a relationship probably because at that point Marvel dropped all Iron Man and Spider-Man connections because they were no longer necessary to fuel the drama of Civil War. May went onto marry J Jonah Jameson’s father, Jay Jameson (a family with a real naming scheme), and as May’s romantic relationships go -- she’d previously been engaged to a man named Nathan Lubensky some time after Ben’s death until he died in an incident that involved the Vulture, and then for a period of time she dated Willy Lumpkin, the Fantastic Four’s mailman -- it’s probably my favorite. They were very cute together.
(Amazing Spider-Man #600)
(Web of Spider-Man v2 #3)
Plus, as a bonus, it made Peter and JJJ brothers-in-law, which was pretty endlessly hilarious.
(Amazing Spider-Man Annual #36)
Jay unfortunately died during the recent Clone Conspiracy storyline. May is still alive, although I believe Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (I’m behind because it’s been boring me to tears even with Johnny’s cameos) is doing a cancer storyline with her now -- another reason I’m behind is that I don’t really want to read that. I googled Jarvis quickly to check if he was still alive, since I don’t typically follow Avengers titles but know that he was injured recently in an event, but it looks like the answer is yes.
