The Amazing Spider-Man: One More Day

[Hara!]

http://www.makeminemarvel.com/2007/08/preview-amazing-spider-man-544.html

It's the storyline that has the comic world buzzing and the event that will leave Spider-Man changed forever—it's One More Day, kicking off in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #544! Written by the acclaimed J. Michael Straczynski, who redefined the wall-crawler for a new generation and penciled by Joe Quesada, one of the industry's most popular artists and Marvel's Editor-In-Chief, this storyline will tie together story threads seeded throughout JMS' six year tenure! When this four-part story concludes, nothing will ever be the same for Peter Parker, as his decision affects the past, present and future of everyone's favorite wall crawler! Each extra-sized issue of One More Day not only features two must-have 50/50 covers—one by Quesada himself and another by acclaimed artist Marko Djurdjevic—but is also packed with Director's Cut style extras!
"It's about the most terrible, awful thing in the world. Certainly the worst that Peter Parker has ever had to face," explained JMS. "He has to make a choice between two equally devastating possibilities, both of which will forever affect his life, and there is no third choice, no way around it."
And don't miss the special SPIDER-MAN: ONE MORE DAY SKETCHBOOK, featuring exclusive first look art from this groundbreaking story and new commentary from Senior Editor Axel Alonso! Retailers can now view the complete One More Day Sketchbook at the Diamond Retailer site to get the first look at brand new art!
With great power comes great responsibility…and an even greater burden. You can't afford to miss this emotional tour de force that will challenge Peter Parker at his very core and leave readers breathless, beginning in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #544!

This is how I see it going down:

After a long month, Peter raises his tired hands to the wall and rubs them across his calandar, remarking on all of the things that have happened ever since he became the Spider-Man. As he goes to change the month of the calendar(a metaphor for how things will never be the same again), MJ grabs his hand. ¨Silly Peter¨, MJ says. It´s a leap year. We still have ONE MORE DAY.¨ Peter, MJ, and Aunt May then go out for Ice Cream.

[Vaikyuko]

That would be awesome to see, but I'm betting it's going to be more mediocrefest. JMS can't write Spider-Man to save his life, and Quesada is a joke. I'm going to probably read it anyway, though.

[Amuro]

JMS can't write Spider-Man to save his life

Yay, criticism! The JMS issues I read of Back in Black had their own pompous, low-IQ appeal though..

[Bernard_Monsha]

Yay, criticism! The JMS issues I read of Back in Black had their own pompous, low-IQ appeal though..

JMS is full of himself, I think he needs a good failure to bring him down a notch.

[Amuro]

JMS is full of himself

Yay! Agreement!

Although I suppose we (I) automatically appear full of ourselves by stating that someone is full of himself..

[Hara!]

Oh god, shittiest ending ever.

Ok I will be mr spolier but you might not believe it as it is SO bad. Pete wakes up alone in the bed to find MJ in that bathroom puking I guess (the art & story telling are so bad who can tell what is up). First 3 1/4s was pete & MJ talking over accepting the offer. They come off as so dumb with neither asking the ultimate question, what would May want which we all know she would want then to stay married. So then the devil appears, they say yes cuz... well theres no believable reason they would. Then as just a freebie the devil tosses in that he is gonna rub out the demasking of peter parker. MJ whispers something to the devil to get an easy way out if the writters need it later. Then after they agree the devil says what I predicted, hes rubbing out the child they would have had in the future,,, UGH, Then... poof! Pete wakes up alone, goes downstair to ol aunt may making wheat cakes then run off to a party for .. HARRY OSBORN!!!! Yes everything is totally as if the last 20 years hasnt happened (in fact last panel shows them making a toast & you can see petes web shooters peeking out just to say screw you payed to read is worthless now). It is so much worse than I expected it to be. They have just turned Amazing into the start of Ultimate Spider-man. Its the worst time ever in Amazing Spider-man history.

NERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRD RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!

[JoeStrummer]

Man that's lame...I never thought it was possible to write something that lame, but I guess I was wrong. Why can't Spider Man be cool like he was in the bronze age heh?

[Vaikyuko]

Wait, so they retconned everything from the past few years?

Oh god, I can't stop laughing. :lol:

[Bernard_Monsha]

It only would have been better if it was a dream from a retarded boy staring at a snowglobe of Aunt May's house.

JMS can't write anymore, this is confirmed by the last B5 production he made.

[Chousho]

It only would have been better if it was a dream from a retarded boy staring at a snowglobe of Aunt May's house.

JMS can't write anymore, this is confirmed by the last B5 production he made.
Well, at least it's better than the clone saga? Actually, I was pretty young and liked the clone saga (again, I was young, if I read it now I'd still like it because of the memories of liking it before, so meh on everyone else).

I never was a big fan of Babylon 5 and only heard of JMS when he started writing Rising Stars. The title looked pretty crappy and I never picked it up. I dunno, I got out of comics about the time Quesada and those others became more prominent in the titles (Daredevil and Punisher I think were the big ones they had their hands in).

I was more into Fantastic Four, anyway. Well, until the whole Heroes Reborn/Return/Recycled crap that came out.

[Bernard_Monsha]

I never was a big fan of Babylon 5 and only heard of JMS when he started writing Rising Stars. The title looked pretty crappy and I never picked it up. I dunno, I got out of comics about the time Quesada and those others became more prominent in the titles (Daredevil and Punisher I think were the big ones they had their hands in).



The best writer Joe pissed off was Peter David. Future Imperfect, his stint on X Factor and his Captain Marvel was tits.

B5 is the best Sci Fi series ever made, it is the only one I actually own in full. That said he is an overbearing prick and thinks far to highly of himself. For example he sells scripts to B5 for 5K a season then complains because no one buys his boo-tee-full artz.

[Hara!]

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[The Million Dollar Prons]

So wait, Peter and Mary-Jane aren't married anymore, and she is instead back with Harry Osbourne and Peter doesn't know he's spiderman anymore? Or what?

[Vaikyuko]

I went and read it yesterday, thinking it would be a bigger thing (it was four issues total).

Basically, in order to save Aunt May, Peter and MJ (it was both of them, mind you) make a deal with Mephisto. That is, to be more specific, he takes their marriage (Mephisto mentions crap hinting at how their love is the purest blah blah blah and that if Mephisto gets to take it away from "him" (whoever this him is, presumably God?), then it's worth much more than souls). Because of the value of their marriage to him, Mephisto also erases the whole unmasking deal.

So when we go back, we see Peter kiss Aunt May on the way out to a party (welcoming home, apparently?) for Harry Osborn. MJ is apparently mad at Peter, implying something happened between the two of them (Flash and Harry both comment, IIRC). Oh yeah, and Mephisto mentions just before he screws with time that because their marriage never happened (pretty succinct way of doing things, Mephisto, nice job), the child they would have had, presumably May Parker version 2, no longer can exist.

So yeah, it was sort of confusing, sort of weird, and horribly written as usual. Go lick goats with Mark Millar, JMS.

[Amuro]

In all fairness, though, do we know whether Marvel may have forced some of this on its writers? I have no clue, just putting it out there..

Did they (re)instate the end-of-story "reset button" mandate?

[Bernard_Monsha]

JMS and Joe should commit suicide by jumping off their egos.

[Stelok]

I haven't read the Spidey books lately. but to erase 20 year-history of Petey's marriage to MJ from the continuity....It's one of the most convoluted retcons I've heard of.

Apparently Joe Q is trying to make Peter a bachelor again in order to attract younger readers who aren't married yet. Honestly I like it better that Peter is now a bachelor.

[Vaikyuko]

Ironically, Quesada did tell us about this in advance. I forget how he worded it, but he had mentioned Peter would be alone (although the way he said it made it sound like it was temporary), yet not divorced/dead MJ. I didn't expect him to do it via retcon, though.

I wonder if this retcon affects other things like Venom too...Mac Gargan as Venom was an interesting experiment, but overall it turned out to be pretty much fail, so classic Venom back plz. Minus the "antihero" bits and with more rancor, too.