RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Comic Books Spiderman....One More Day

Anyone else reading this? I was hugely disapointed with all the Civil War bullshit and the direction they took the character in....and then at the end another cheap stunt (the shooting of Aunt May).

So now they are saying this 4 issue arc will change Spidey alot for the next few years presumably with the death of May or MJ (everyone feels it is MJ). If they kill MJ I will never read another Spiderman comic again. So part of me hopes they do so I can save some money but the other part hopes they don't go for the cheap parlor tricks that seem to be so overused lately. So far the first 2 issues have been average at best. The covers are really cool though. They remind me of the 80s.

that's only because you were coked up and listening to Wham! when you read the issues.

wake me up before you go go!

he's really getting whammed in that pic.

its one of the best uj projects, evar.

According to LITG, One More Day is gonna end with Spidey having to choose between saving May or having his marriage to MJ retconned. He chooses May and as a result MJ doesn't even know his secret identity anymore.

That'd suck. May should have died 30 years ago.

They tried to kill her in #400, but it didn't take. I only read the Ultimate Spidey title these days, but I read somewhere that MJ and Pete were getting divorced. I take it TPTB decided to kill her off instead.

I don't vouch for its accuracy, but the big rumor is that "One More Day" will result in a Spiderman "reboot." They won't kill MJ, the rumor goes, only deage her and Peter to high school or college and split them up.

If you think about it, it's not that surprising that Marvel would be looking at rebooting some, or all, of its' characters. DC "had" to do it twenty years ago and they started publishing approximately twenty years before the Marvel age of comics.

So, by that timeline, Marvel's due.

The fucking Watcher has a lot to answer for.

Thank God they can't reboot real people!

Who the hell would want to wake up one morning, only to find that your spouse is gone and that your kids no longer exist, and that you are back in High School again???

The Watcher watches you poo!

G-Man.

Wasn't that the plot of "Peggy Sue Got Married"?

In any event, the rumors floating around seem to be that Peter agrees to this because it's the only way to save the lives of MJ and Aunt May. He has to give up his life with MJ to save both their lives. Great power...responsibility...yada....yada.

Also, I remember reading a column by Peter David once where he reported that Marvel has figures that show a large percentage of its' readership turns over every five years or so anyway. By Marvel's then-thinking, David said, undoing the marriage won't have long term negative effects, in that only a certain percentage of existing fans would be around to be pissed off for long. If that's the case, maybe Marvel believes that there pay off will be more readers who want a Spidey closer to the movies and the Ultimate book (single and young).

I'm not endorsing the rumored plot, simply reporting what Marvel's rumored logic seems to be.

Yes G - Man, that was the plot of " Peggy Sue Got Married. "

All the stuff G-man is saying makes sense and seems to fit with what Marvel wants to do. But what will this mean for the rest of the Marvel U......they all know his secret identity from Civil War.

I thought that they were going to end up saying that he was a skrull or something to explain away the ID reveal?

yowzers

That may just be a rumor though...

In a few weeks I am going to seriously start cutting some titles off my must read list. I suppose I should thank the editors for saving me some bucks.

I wouldn't worry about the skrull theory. The internet is starting to blame Marvel for using the skrulls to explain everything from Cap's death to PJP's anal cyst, but all of it, every single thing, is just fan speculation. Let's wait for them to fuck up, then start bitching.

I'm getting it removed (retconed) this Friday!

John Byrne is operating on P's butt!

Auuugh! He'll retcon PJ's life! Watch out, PJ!!

he got skrullfucked

ewwww

not the first time. and we all know it wont be the last...

Sooo, Grant Morrisson put in the cyst, and John Byrne retcons it out...?

retcon, rectum... toMAYto toMAHto...

retcon? damn near killed em!

who's the chippie dressed like Thor?

You mean middle row, right side? Valkyrie from the Defenders.

I'm guessing Scarlet Witch could handle the retcon.

My money's on Loki. basically, in one guise or another, he offers to give him back Aunt May in exchange for his happiness. Peter agrees to it, Loki casts some spell, and Peter gets Aunt May back. But he's unmarriend and no one knows his secret identity...until the inevitable story where he tries to regain what he lost (once he remembers what he lost), with Thor making an appearance to help him.

pretty pointless changes to make when you already have Ult. Spider-Man who fills the young, unmarried, teenage hero role pretty nicely for them. It's the perfect situation of actually being able to eat your cake and have it, too.

but then this is Marvel, who will throw logic and even recent storylines out the window for the sake of worshipping at the altar of the "EVENT" comic.

Who? Jesus, other than Ultimate Spidey, I am completely out of the Marvel loop ... and I would assume that the blonde is Gwen, but then again it could be her daughter even though they both are s'posed to be "dead"...

Thanks for answering my question, though...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valkyrie_%28Marvel_Comics%29

Who is the old dude, top left hand corner?