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Should I read 'One More Day'?

Fri Jan 4, 2008, 12:50 PM
I'll start by saying I haven't read 'One More Day', but it's starting to sound like Marvel's biggest pooch screwing ever. Ever since Joe Quesada took over, he's had this itch to un-marry Mary Jane and Peter. He didn't want a divorce. He didn't want to make Peter a widower. So this is his solution. And it does sound like it is HIS. As a side note, I remember reading something a while back about a proposed solution to this very situation involving some other powerful being and it being dismissed as being too 'cosmic' for the everyman, Spider-Man. But a deal with the devil is better and a preferable alternative to divorce? How many times can they dangle Aunt May over the foaming jaws of death and have people still care? Anyway, JMS didn't want to write it, and actually didn't write it. He turned in a completely different story than what had been agreed upon at a previous creative summit. So editorial rewrites the majority of part four and JMS wants his name removed. Why doesn't the brass just write the flagship books themselves? Why hire talented people to produce books when you know they're going to have to work while wearing the corporate handcuffs? If they really, really wanted to get back to the status quo of a single Spidey, just shut down the Spider-Man books and add more books to the Ultimate Spidey line. The Ultimate line exists to act as a life boat for the Marvel characters who are sinking under their own continuity, right? It seems a more sensible thing to do rather than insulting your fans with this mess. I won't go near a monthly Spider-Man, X-Men, Superman or Batman book because of garbage like this. I feel a bit bad for all of those talented folks whose dream job is to write Spider-Man and they finally get there with years and years worth of Spidey stories filling boxes full of notebooks only to find that the suits already have the next five years of stories mapped out. This just makes a better case for self publishing.

And here's an email from JMS that I found to be very funny and absolutely true. [link]

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Mood: Sadness ~cvilaire:iconcvilaire: Jan 4, 2008, 1:18:20 PM
Dude, I agree with you. I haven't read spidey in years since the clone saga and I thought that was stupid; all I know about Spidey is what he interjects when he hanging around the new Avengers. I personally think this garbage is because Peter unmasked himself in the CW (they are trying to sell comics)and also, why save aunt may's life? She would totally want Peter to be happy and have their child and Marriage(shes old and has died before). It seem's they are trying to get in the continuty of the movies. Quesada has a shock factor in his run of Marvel; Also, WWH was lame; especially the part that Hulk can calculate his destruction and not kill any civiliians...lame! I wish JMS would finish Supreme Power which was the best modern hero comic book.
~scottygod:iconscottygod: Jan 4, 2008, 1:54:00 PM
Quesada has been wanting to do this for a long time but never had an excuse for such a ridiculous fix until Peter unmasked in Civil War. He knew fans would be upset and he figured they would be willing to accept any fantastical crap to get Spidey back to normal. I'm all for Aunt May biting the dust. She really doesn't serve any real purpose anymore, other than being a family member that Peter has to protect and worry about. Which is exactly what his wife should be. I'm all for a divorce. With 50% of marriages in this country ending that way, what better way for the everyman to regain his bachelorhood? Plus, Peter always gets kicked in the crotch and has to keep on going, so why not have his wife leave him? I think I have to read this just to see how terrible it really is. I didn't know that bit about the Hulk. That is pretty lame. One of the cool things about the Hulk was Banner's guilt about going nuts and killing innocent people. What happened to Marvel's balls? Someone tell me that Millar has the good kind of crazy planned for Fantastic Four.
Mood: Anger ~thesurfgod:iconthesurfgod: Jan 4, 2008, 4:46:03 PM
I gave up buying Spiderman when the Norman Osborn - Gwen Stacy twins thing happened - according to JMS in the latest Newsarama interview
[link]
he wanted Gwen's kids to be Peter's but Joe Q didn't want that complication and instead 'soured' the whole Spidey saga forever with Gwen being seduced by Norman. JMS wanted to erase this from the timeline in his version of OMD.
Joe Q has a lot to answer for.
Would the REAL Peter Parker please stand up.
~scottygod:iconscottygod: Jan 4, 2008, 5:01:17 PM
I know Joe's intentions were good, but I think he's done to harm than help Spidey. Marvel may not be prepared for the backlash here.
~Ninja-G33k:iconNinja-G33k: Jan 5, 2008, 8:27:33 AM
When Spidey unmasked in Civil War the first thought to cross my mind was "Can open, worms everywhere. This will not end well."

Of course, I think Civil War was itself a profoundly boneheaded idea from the get-go, but that's a whole 'nother story.

I stuck with Spidey because of JMS: I started reading the series again when he joined the book, and now that he's gone from it I'm dropping it: the only regular Marvel titles I'm taking at the moment are Daredevil, Thor and Heroes for Hire.

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~cvilaire:iconcvilaire: Jan 5, 2008, 3:11:48 PM
I just joined Marvel online and it's pretty cool, did you ever check out 4? I thought it was a good fantastic four story.
~scottygod:iconscottygod: Jan 5, 2008, 8:00:53 PM
Is that the deal where you pay a monthly fee to have access to their whole digital library? 4 is the Grant Morrison miniseries, right? Yeah, I've got that. Jae Lee is amazing.
~scottygod:iconscottygod: Jan 5, 2008, 8:19:53 PM
I stay away from mainstream superhero books altogether. Marvel and DC are so obsessed with status-quo-changing events that they need to keep producing these giant, manufactured stories to repair the damage they keep inflicting on themselves.
~Ninja-G33k:iconNinja-G33k: Jan 5, 2008, 8:30:56 PM
I've gotten into the habit of following writers more than anything else: I genuinely like what JMS is doing with Thor, Daredevil hasn't managed to trip my bullshit meter yet, and Heroes for Hire gives me my "utter stupidity" fix. :slow:

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