several Spider-Man failures that no fan (0r writer) wishes to discuss again.
Aunt May is a staple of the Spider-Man franchise along with Uncle Ben; both appeared in Spider-Man's origin story and are vitally important to the character's mythos. Aunt May has been Peter's constant guardian whenever his life gets tumultuous (and it often does). She's appeared in every single Spider-Man film, regardless of director or cinematic universe. Even Stan Lee famously rejected all requests from other writers to kill Aunt May - but that didn't stop Mark Millar from changing her characterization in Trouble. Millar wanted to write the next great chapter of Spider-Man's origin, and believed the series would be well-received...but furious fans thought otherwise when they saw exactly what he wrote.
In Trouble by Mark Millar, Terry Dodson, and Rachel Dodson, a young Aunt May along with her friend Mary spend a summer working at a high-end country club. They meet brothers Richie and Ben; May takes an immediate liking to Ben and they spend the night together, and Mary and Richie do the same (though only the latter couple refrains from getting more intimate). As the summer continues, Richie cheats on Mary with May...and weeks later, May discovers she's pregnant. After Ben confesses he's sterile, it becomes obvious that the father is Richie - otherwise known as Richard Parker, Peter Parker's biological father.
The affair is discovered by a furious Mary (but not by Ben), and May runs away to avoid confronting her religious parents. Months later, Mary and May reconcile - and Mary decides to raise the child as her own, saving May from her parents but failing to save the reader from the sheer abundance of plot holes created by this nonsensical series. Why is May shown having Peter as a teenager when she's depicted as an older woman with gray hair in almost every comic portrayal? How could Richard and Mary become secret S.H.I.E.L.D. agents (their canonical comic backstory) when they're not even in their twenties themselves and Peter says he was too young to then when they died? Why does May's appearance evoke Mary Jane Watson and Mary's evoke Gwen Stacy, black hairband and all?
Perhaps the worst aspect of this series is the author's possible insinuation that biological parents trump any other guardian. In turning Aunt May into Peter's mother, Mark Millar suggests that only a mother can properly raise a child - only a biological mother can become a maternal figure. This is frankly a slap in the face to all who've been raised by anyone other than their biological parents; Peter did not become Spider-Man in spite of his unorthodox upbringing, but because of it. Aunt May and Uncle Ben may not have been Peter's mother and father, but they raised him right all the same.
