[Spoilers] Spiderman: One More Day...

[Cthulhudrew]

Joe Q's at it again. From the latest session of the OMD interviews at CBR (discussing the Sins Past storyline):

Joe came to me with a storyline that had Peter meeting these twins... These kids would turn out to be kids that he had with Gwen... In my world, there was no way I could go forward with this story as is. For starters, you’re talking to a guy that feels that a married Peter Parker isn’t the healthiest thing for the franchise since it ages the character... And there were further implications of the story that were out of my comfort zone. First, it was the dealing with the repercussions of Peter and Gwen having unprotected or careless sex out of wedlock.

(emphasis mine)

So- it's not okay that Peter and Gwen- two people who are in love with one another and in a healthy, committed relationship to have "unprotected or careless sex out of wedlock", but it is somehow okay to have her cheat on him with her ex-boyfriend's father (also Spider-Man's nemesis and a nutjob?). That's somehow a better compromise.

(Not to mention that even "safe" sex isn't 100% guaranteed to be effective...)

Yeesh.

The interview does make it seem like the changes to the OMD storyline by editorial were done to do damage control (evidently JMS was going to wipe out all Spidey history back to 1971, while this change only mucks with things going back to '87).

Gah! So many people dropping the ball so many ways for so long now on Spidey. It shouldn't irritate me (these are comics, after all, and history can be written and re-written- and probably will- many, many times). But it does.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

And on it goes.

(JMS' response to Joe's interview. Looks like there may have been some degree of throwing someone under the bus, but at this point, I'm not sure who was the victim.

Honestly, I tend to fall in the camp of JMS probably really did have things through through so that the continuity wouldn't be violated/would be violated minimally, to Joe Q's "JMS was going to wipe it all out to 1971", because JMS- in my opinion, and based on my knowledge of his work, such as Babylon 5- seems to have a great respect for continuity, and a grave dislike of the "reset button".)

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Honestly, the more I think about it, the more I'm leaning towards just taking a break from Spidey...well, not Ultimate, because that's still absolutely wonderful in every single way(save for the breakup of him and Kitty Pride, which was the perfect relationship for Peter to be in).

But even though I love Dan SLott's work, and he's doing the first Brand New Day arc, I just...don't care anymore. Besides, I buy enough comics every week. Be nice to have one less title to compete for my money.

 

[Agamon]

Ultimate Spidey is one of the 5 regular comics I buy. This is a good reason why (JMB aside). I've always been a big Spidey fan, but the MU version has so much baggage as a result of some really bad editorial decisions.

 

[Felon]

Joe Q's at it again. From the latest session of the OMD interviews at CBR (discussing the Sins Past storyline):



(emphasis mine)

So- it's not okay that Peter and Gwen- two people who are in love with one another and in a healthy, committed relationship to have "unprotected or careless sex out of wedlock", but it is somehow okay to have her cheat on him with her ex-boyfriend's father (also Spider-Man's nemesis and a nutjob?). That's somehow a better compromise.

Well, in the latter case it's just Gwen being a weak-willed slattern. Petey's absolved.

How did this thread ever fall off page one?

 

[Relique du Madde]

Well, in the latter case it's just Gwen being a weak-willed slattern. Petey's absolved.

How did this thread ever fall off page one?

The molecular bonds that formed this thread dissolved after an hour, causing it to plummet.


Right now all I'm hoping for is that Messiah CompleX doesn't drop the ball in its final two issues...

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

How did this thread ever fall off page one?

Some of us are trying to wipe this from our memory.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

How did this thread ever fall off page one?

Mephisto tried to retcon it out of everyone's memory, but fortunately (unfortunately?) there are those of us immune to his "it's magic; we don't need to explain it" powers.

 

[TheLe]

You know, Joe Quasada is taking quite a lot of heat for this, but I have to believe that Straczynski should take some of the blame too.

He may not be responsible for the "Mephisto" stuff, but he certainly was on-board for ending the marriage.

`Le

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

If Spiderman must be miserable, I'm sure there are dozens of ways to do it while keeping him married.

For example: He's married.