I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view…

That said, I haven’t bought a Spider-Man comic in 15 years, and don’t intend to start, so for me this is rather like getting news that an old friend I’d lost interest in keeping up with has come down with Alzheimer’s.

i seriously don’t know. on the one hand, it *is* a book meant for young adults . that’s their demographic. that’s what they should be working with.

on the other, the entire plot device is beyond stupidity. of all the retconning devices in the literate world, that’s the best one they could come up with.

sad.

stuff like this makes me happy i moved away from the pervert spandex books.

except for Whedon’s X-Men, of course.

heh.

Spidey’s a whole lot more fun and easy for kids to relate to when he’s single? How so? When was the last time a kid bought Spider-Man, or any comic for that matter? Comics are not priced or aimed at kids anymore.
Just look at the young reader line circ figures, you’ll see what I mean. Even the Spider-Man movie couldn’t get them into the shops.

Rich,

I truly wish Aunt May’s death ‘was’ inevitable.

If that were the case, we wouldn’t even be having this discussion because the One More Day storyline wouldn’t exist. Aunt May would have stayed dead in Amazing Spider-Man # 195 (or thereabouts). Or in Spider-Man # 400. That’s what makes this whole storyline so silly. How many times does Peter Parker have to watch this old hag die and come back? That’s also why he’d be an idiot if he accepted Mephisto’s offer.

1) It’s common knowledge that anyone who deals with the devil, loses. The devil is the great deceiver, a liar so why would he make a deal with him? It’s an insult to the character’s intelligence and the reader’s intelligence if he does. It’s also anti-heroic.

2) As an editor, I’d be more worried about making Spider Man look dumb to accept a deal with the devil than having him be fun and single. If Peter Parker is a loser, he can’t have fun so that too is an oxymoron statement. Being a loser isn’t exactly fun.

3) Getting back to Peter’s response to Mephisto, really, he should tell Mephisto to fuck off.

‘Go ahead Mephy, TRY and kill her. Greater editors than you have tried. Aunt May, she’s like The Terminator.

‘She’ll be back.’

But really, this whole yarn is an example of why stories in comics have become less and less readable. They have ZERO credibility. What’s written today will be undone tomorrow. So why bother reading them to begin with? Joe Q undoes the Spidey Marriage, Dan Didio undoes Crisis and unleashes 52 earths in the DCU.

What a mess. This a sign of creative bankrupcy upstairs. Forget changing or retconing the characters. Change the company leaders.

1. Spidey should NEVER had been married to begin with. IMO, the marriage ruined the character. So I’m all for the marriage ending.

2. The decision to marry him in the comic was and EDITORIAL one.

3. Using Mephisto to get rid of the marriage is a DUMB idea.

4. From the rumors I heard about OMD, JMS’s original idea wasn’t much better then Quesada’s idea. Hell, I think both their ideas SUCK.

5. I pretty much figured out how OMD will end and what the end results will be for Spidey. In fact, I knew for about a year. And from the rumors I heard, I was pretty much dead on.

I don’t know how they could have worked this in … but Aunt May dying is inevitable. The death of Gwen, however, is something of which Peter never really forgave himself. Peter loves Mary Jane … but I gotta believe that at least once a month, something reminds him of Gwen. And at least once a year, there must be some quiet, wistful moment where he wonders what might have been. If Mephisto proposed this, it would REALLY have had drama …

Although I like the suggestion, “Hey, Mephy, go F*** yourself!” Telling Mephisto off would instantly make him THE coolest character of all time.

As for waking up from a black-out threeway with the Black Cat and the Gwen Clone … I shudder at this thought … I feel guilty for even being amused and a little intrigued at the thought.

If by “older men,” you mean Joe. Q, I’ll go along with that. Otherwise, the “aging fanboy” argument is just as stupid and shallow today as it was when it became “cool” a few years ago.

As a 39-yr old, I stopped reading all the SPIDER-MAN titles 15+ years ago because they didn’t interest me any longer. I thumb through them occasionally, or purchase one issue per year, just to see what they’re doing. Kinda like the annual phone call to an old dear friend with whom you no longer have anything in common.

Retconning the marriage away won’t get me to start buying them again.

For Marvel’s sake, I hope the last issue of One More Day does not hit on a slow news day or hit the radar conservative pundit shows.

Good for Joe, I’m all for it. Now if they can just get him back in high school…

BTW, the exterior shots for How To Murder Your Wife were filmed on the block on which I grew up, albeit ten years before I was born. I just saw a bit of it on TV a couple weeks ago and it’s a scream. From what I gather from its IMDB entry it’s a remake of an Italian film which also starred Lisi, though in that version her character was meant to be Greek.