One More Word
This review written by James Hunt on Jan.03, 2008.
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Continuing the unofficial attempt to mention Spider-Man every day for a week, allow me to present a special Comics Daily update, which I’m going to call:
Things that should’ve been made 100% clear in One More Day
A Comics Daily Event in 1 Part.
Read the quote below, and judge for yourselves. It doesn’t clear up the whole “deal with Satan,” Mephisto Ex Machina crap, but by god it does sugar coat that pill substantially by explaining exactly why this isn’t the continuity carpet bombing that it first appeared to be. I can’t say that all is forgiven, but now that I’ve seen this, the outrage is actually beginning to subside. It’s still bad, but it’s now closer to Avengers Disassembled Bad, rather than Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions Bad.. Joe, a word of advice – please, in your editorial capacity, remember to include the full story in the actual comics next time:
CBR: So, to get this straight, OMD doesn’t actually negate the previous 20 years of Spider-Man stories?
Joe Quesada: Exactly, that’s precisely what we wanted to avoid. What didn’t occur was the marriage. Peter and MJ were together, they loved each other — they just didn’t pull the trigger on the wedding day. All the books count, all the stories count — except in the minds of the people within the Marvel U, Peter and MJ were a couple, not a married couple. (extract taken from CBR)
Long-awaited clarification or editorial backpedal? I’ll let you decide…
(You know, this is exactly the kind of reason the Comics Daily No Drama rule exists. Since I have resolutely failed to stick to it after mere weeks of existence, I wonder – should I just abolish it entirely, or redouble my attempts to follow it even in the face of the potential psychological damage it might cause me?)
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January 3rd, 2008 on 8:09 am[...] it. Not only has it completely screwed up the last 20 years of Spider-man history, Joe Quesada is trying to backpeddle? Also, going purely beyond the writing, I found the art to be slow and laborious, there were [...]
January 3rd, 2008 on 7:49 am
Woah, that IS something that should have been put forward sooner, but it still really doesn’t explain gwen stacy et al…
January 3rd, 2008 on 8:10 am
Not to mention Harry being alive. I hardly see what that has to do with them being a couple but not getting married.
This actually will probably make at least a couple people take a second look. I think the general consensus was that they pretty much had nothing to do with each other and we were simply taking a trip back in time.
January 3rd, 2008 on 9:50 am
Sorry, but having read the issue, this is utter bullshit. Why is Harry still alive? Why is Peter living with May, who has regressed character-wise twenty years or so?
This is Joe Q attempting to backpedal in the face of the backlash. WILL NOT WORK.
January 3rd, 2008 on 9:51 am
I mean, didn’t Harry die before Peter and MJ got married? So how does their not getting married in any way bring him back to life? Bollocks.
January 3rd, 2008 on 11:48 am
According to the interview, Harry being alive again isn’t a continuity alteration, it’s the “price” of making a deal with the devil. Quesada’s reasoning was something like “Well, the books were just more fun with Harry in!” which is an… astonishing thing to say.
January 3rd, 2008 on 12:59 pm
The books were EVEN MORE fun when Quesada wasn’t EIC… why doesn’t he set about “fixing” that one?
January 3rd, 2008 on 1:16 pm
Hahaha! Quesadowned!
January 3rd, 2008 on 4:16 pm
Taking a more logical viewpoint, mephisto (and the devil in general in many movies/books) has always been outstandingly honest, but just withheld information. It was out of character for mephisto to explain the terms of the deal as much as he did, and this goes beyond the mere “pulling of a single stitch.”