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Seriously....there aren't any words powerful enough to articulate how awful this storyline is. Its the single reason i won't buy a spider-man title for the rest of my life. No joke.
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This book has the new status quo of spiderman, because he is in a really difficult crossroad, becuase his aunt is close to die because a bullet that was shooted to kill Peter Parker, and the devil himself offers to save his aunt, in exchange he has to separarte of Mary Jane and he will have his secret identity again (becasu he unmasked during the civil war) the devil's reason is that the love of Mary and Peter is a treasure for the devil because this love is so pure and especial, this story close an old spiderman era and begins a new one(Brand new day), the art of Joe Quesada is incredible dinamic and GREAT. The resaon why Quesada (also editor in chief of Marvel) wanted to did this is because he wanted to rfresh the character and atrack new readers, if you like spiderman then this is a MUST HAVE, annd of course I can't wait to read Brand New Day.
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Dear Marvel,
You may get a lot of "I've been reading Spider-Man since ..." This one is a little different. I've started reading the comic book when I was literally a geeky teen in high school and really related to the picked on, nerdy character. He had his problems, his worries and trying to make ends due. But that was the reason why he was so lovable. Since it was 1990 that I seriously started reading comic books, Spidey was already married and though I knew and related to character from the days gone by from the 70s and 80s, it was the fact that he was married that kept me reading. He made me realize that even the geeks can get the girl. Sort of made me push harder at work and studies to be where I am today. Spidey saw me growing up through med school, residency and finally becoming a full fledged board certified dermatologist.
When I did get married, literally to a bombshell, she was my Mary Jane. I made my wife read all the stories, old and new where Peter's and MJ's love shined. I bought her the hard to come by Wedding issue, even the death of Gwen Stacy just to spark a debate of who's the best girl for Peter. She did laugh at me saying this was just a comic book, she knew how serious I was as to how married life is. They were our beacon to keep fighting no matter where life takes you. Each month when Amazing came out, it was another chapter in married life. Ultimate Spidey made me smile seeing Peter going from one teen mess to another, but it was the adult Peter that all of us related to. The readers had the best of both worlds. The stories became complex and more encompassing but we, the readers, stuck through. The Clone saga came out and I loved it (though not many did not). I felt it was another part of the Spidey mythos. JMS came onboard and he developed new character, new powers and sales still rocketed. We felt that Spider-man was rightfully evolving. He was unmasked, much to our surprise, but we were still intrigued. This all was happening until the story "One More day".
That one story completely erased my faith in the character and that with a blink of an eye things can just drastically change in comics. It was as if we, the readers, received a slap in the face for the 15 years of character development and growth. It was like going to square one in such a selfish, cowardly way that has truly shaken my belief. It was like erasing the work of many greats like Howard Mackie, JM DeMatteis, David Michelinie, Danny Fingeroth, Terry Kavanaugh and JMS to name a few. Spidey has no more new powers, he was masked again, but what hurt the most is that he was not married anymore. It was like what I read through all these sleepless nights in between my study breaks was irrelevant.
I read the last chapter of "One More Day" in a hotel room away from my family attending a dermatology conference. I knew what was going to happen and I kept it deep down in the stack, in hopes that the story might not happen if I don't read it. After reading the last page, I called my wife with a heavy heart and told her "Peter and MJ are not together anymore and have never been married". She thought I was crazy for calling her just to talk about that, especially since it's "just a comic book", but I felt so compelled to tell her that I loved her and miss her. To this day, I'm still in shock and the thought of Spidey not married, just gnaws at me.
Not everyone knows what die hard fans go through and how we relate to certain characters and certain storylines. We're not kids anymore. A lot of us are married, have kids and relate to the character different than in the past where comics were read mostly by kids. If Marvel wanted MJ out of the picture, there were already titles out there that had Spidey not married to the character. Marvel Age, Ultimate. New kids, if Marvel decides to believe that kids actually read comics in between their video games, can read those titles, but we old 30 something year olds grew up with this nerd, who grew up to become a man, falling in love and marrying this beautiful woman. Because inside each one of us is a Spider-Man...
I don't know how I will read Amazing again. The feeling of apprehension that whatever I read can easily be blown away in the dust leaves me insecure and scared to attach myself to the character the way I did before. I apologize for the long letter, but I really had to put my thoughts into this.
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If you take the controversy away from the story, it's actually a well crafted story. You can't help but have your eyes water just a little when it fades to black on Peter and MJ. Not to mention that this story leads into Brand New Day, which to me is the Spider-Man book I've been wanting since I started reading comics.
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Well I'll be honest I don't read spider man often. or marvel for at matter, so the whole thing with revealing their identities for some law is new to me. I just randomly got this book and gave it a read. Though I love Dr. Strange and he shows up in here, which is a plus right away. I won't go into the story much since everyone else seems to have done that in their reviews. I just think that this is a good story about possibilities and fate and compromise. Giving up what you have to get back what you think you want, and refusing to let go of things that make you happy. But in the long run, wind up losing something that is going to be of more value than what you gave up. He makes a deal the devil and loses something very important to him (peter that is) and gets what he thinks is what he wants. He saves aunt may's life. But the telling of this story is really what is great. It's got a little of the "this could be your life" element in it, it's got dr strange in it, and then of course the devil himself. Definately worth a read. You may not agree with the ending, in fact I would hope you don't. He doesn't do something silly like sell his soul, and besides that's been done to death. He goes deeper and worse. And that's what may this a great read for me.
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