MAJOR Spider-Man Spoilers on the Brand New Day comic

I just read the Spider-Man comics called One More Day that ended with Amazing Spider-Man issue 545.

And YES F’n Marvel Editor in Chief Joe Quasada got his forced wish and removed the Spidey marriage. It is COMPLETE crap!

Also Peter Parker’s exposed public identity was erased from the minds of the world. As for the unmasking to the public last year in Civil War, I figured this whole reset One More Day story was planned since then. That’s why the unmasking bit didn’t matter and they went with it.

Peter and Mary Jane make a deal with Mephisto, who is the devil like character in Marvel Comics, to save Aunt May.

This story called One More Day was a magic reset button. And magic in this title should not affect a character in a permanent change like this. It’s just wrong on this type of books real world premise.

Just some points wrong with the One More Day I found:

1. What happened to Aunt May was a natural part of life. Who is Peter to F’ with the cosmic circumstances and mess with natural law? What gives him that right?

2. Making a deal with a devil? Do you even have to go any further then that. To know it’s wrong.

3. When the devil mentions God, don’t you think: Hey, if the devil wants to strike out at God and use me to do so. Maybe I shouldn’t interfere with what God wants. Much less side with the devils goals and his plans.

4. What gives Peter the right to tamper with the WORLDS memories? What gives him that responsibility? That is the OPPOSITE of being responsible. And what about papers and videos and all that? Even if the worlds minds were erased what of media and disks? What of beings like androids remembering the truth?

Either: Spidey History from a certain point was changed from what we know and all went differently. Or history happened and retroactive it was changed. But then that would mean you would have to wipe out all video and such evidence.

Plus isn’t it Dr. Strange’s goal to stop such things happening in this realm? Where is he to protect Earth? Or the other cosmic mystics to prevent changes like this? Should not there be consequences and a need to set things right on the cosmic balance?

5. Let’s see the choice now: Save an old aunt who will eventually go. Or give up the love of your life, and you future with her? Plus if Aunt May knew what was happening, don’t you think she’d choose to go cause it’s her time. Knowing he’s in good hands with MJ his wife and to bless their future together.

6. This choice just goes against the mindset of Peter Parker as a character. It is not logical his choice and actions. And way out of character. And speaking of out of character, Peter to reveal his identity public was Way out of Character. It’s just not something he would.
7. Is Peter still so immature and can’t control his emotions, that he has not grown up and realized when it’s time to let go? Doctor Strange’s speech to Peter earlier in the story was right on the money.
In the end OMD Peter, should have been tempted and then decide not to, cause it was not right and against the natural laws. Sure he might, in a what if type desire to stop what must be, but that’s all he’d do. And sure he’d cry and all that, but in the end know he chose the right path.

But let’s face it, THE TRUTH as many have said: It’s crap and this is CLEARLY a story and idea that was FORCED by Quasada to do. He’s for years publically stated how he wanted the marriage gone.

I used to like him as Editor In Chief but this story is another example that shows his time is done. It’s clear to me at least that Marvel needs a new EIC in charge cause Quasada is done and needs to go.

I also read the first issue of Brand New Day, the new Status Quo there making up. And it looks like they deaged him. Peter appears in his 20’s just out of college, and living with Aunt May again. Harry Osborn is alive again, and doesn’t know Peter is Spidey and hates Spidey. He seems like the movie version Harry Osborn.

Their hanging out in a club and got something like 3 new girls they hangout with.

It really is a de facto: Reset Button hit.

As I read on wiki:

“The reset button technique (based on the idea of status quo ante) is a plot device that interrupts continuity in works of fiction. Simply put, use of a reset button device returns all characters and situations to the status quo they held before a major change of some sort was introduced. Often used in science fiction television series, animated series, soap operas, and comic books, the device allows elaborate and dramatic changes to characters and the fictional universe that might otherwise invalidate the premise of the show with respect to future continuity. Writers may, for example, use the technique to allow the audience to experience the death of the lead character, which traditionally would not be possible without effectively ending the work.

The term may be based on the reset button found on a video game console or computer. When pressed, such a button automatically restarts the machine, losing any unsaved data.

The danger of the reset button is that the audience will become frustrated and cynical because they are expected to suspend disbelief and emotionally invest in the characters, yet know that anything the characters do to improve their selves or their world is destined to be futile, since a change in either would require the show to have continuity rather than be stand-alone episodes. Audiences are forced to conclude that it is too painful to care in the first place about the characters or their world, so why bother watching the show at all?”

Also since all strings are connected the whole continuity is F’d up.

Example is ASM issue 299 Mary Jane first met Venom and told Peter. Who then went to investigate. Without MJ there, no one tells Peter and the whole issue of how he learns or meets Venom is messed.

Or for that matter just about any and every storyline. Cause without MJ there, his reactions would have been different and stories changed, or events did not happen as they have.

But really, I think it’s clear to say that Marvel now, and has for the past 5 to say 10 years shown it’s true colors of a corporate entity and that’s all these characters are. There is no heart there anymore.

As a business first, this Spidey example shows, that in comics there is only the “illusion of change”, cause with corporate owned characters the reset button will EVENTUALLY be hit, no matter what anyone else may say. New management will see to that.

From the Marvel website showing the new villains. It’s like people FORGOT how to make cool characters. All the visuals suck and none will be the next Venom or even Carnage. A character with a cool visual and design that lasts.

And while the “Illusion of Change” is a concept in comics I heard a lot. This really does ring true. As does the end of the Wiki quote. Why Bother with Spider-Man books anymore?

It really DOES NOT matter. They have in effect reset the book to a 20 something Peter and you know the relations can never lead to marriage. And you know the status quo and developments of the characters are all in effect going nowhere and can’t progress farer then we saw. My example I thought of is this:

You see a magic trick, then you are showed how it’s done. You can’t go back to seeing the magic trick again cause it won’t surprise or intrique you anymore. Same goes for Spidey now.

You saw the behind the scenes, the development of the chraracter. Now Marvel is trying to show the magic trick again and pull the curtain in front of you. But it won’t go with me or other long time fans, cause we’ve seen what’s behind the curtain and the magic trick revealed. Trying to fool us into making stories we chould care about, on a deaged Peter and his world put back into Status Quo of decades ago. Won’t matter anymore. The books are not written for us anymore and that’s okay with me.

And in a way it’s funny they had to go to the extremes of using a magic way out and rewriting history to end it. They had to use a reset button extreme to get what Quasada wanted. And as said, it really doesn’t matter. You make and read matter the stories you like, and the history thereof from the creators you like. The rest can really be deleted crap cause it’s from another creative team who is following their own ideas and not related to the team before them.

This won’t stop me from enjoying the trades and Essentials I get, currently reprinting 70’s material.

Rant over, thanks for reading hope it made sense.