One More Day
Retcon [ret'kon] v. The deliberate changing of previously established facts in a work of serial fiction (retroactive continuity).
The much-hyped “One More Day” story arc in Amazing Spider-man has ended pretty much the way most people figured it would. Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson are no longer married…
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I am in agreement on this being a bad decision on Marvel’s part. While it’s really cool to revisit Spidey’s college days, I think they could have come up with much more creative ways to do it than the “deal-with-the-devil-undo-button”. I say they should have let Aunt May die (she’s already died once before, plus…she’s OLD! She’d have probably died of age soon anyway!).
Instead of this nonsense, I think they should have delved more into the totemic aspect of Spider-Man that J.M.S. so expertly introduced into the Spider-Man mythos (without changing any of Spider-Man’s history as we know it – just opening our eyes to a wider picture and overarching reason for him gaining the spider-powers) so we could find out what that’s all about.
Anyway, everyone knows that Peter and Mary Jane’s love is so “pure” and great that they’ll end up married again anyway, so what’s the point?
They killed Captain America? I need to read more comic books, have you tried Marvel’s online comic deal?
I’ve looked at it, but I still buy my comics in the stores, so I’m not really interested in an online subscription. It’s a pretty cool deal, though!
Back when Crossgen comics was around, they had something like that, and it had some neat features. Especially for a company like that where all the books where somehow connected, it was a nice alternative to feeling like you had to buy every issue of every book.
So it’s not for me at this point, but it’s a good idea.