CNN gets the ball rolling with a piece about P. Parker and Mary Jane splitting up — and the nerdrage it caused.

Joe Quesada, editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, said it was time to shake things up in the life of Peter Parker, the nerdy New Yorker who upon being bitten by a radioactive spider attained the ability to transform himself into a web-spinning world savior. And it was easier to do that, he said, if Parker wasn’t married.

This week’s plot twist left many comic-book fans climbing the walls.

“When we first did it, the reaction was, ‘How could you do this? This is a terrible thing to do,’ ” said Quesada, who invented the story line that turned Spider-Man into Single-Man.

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