What was supposed to be a short, one month series that drastically changed the life of Spider-Man has turned into what is now a three to four month arc for unkown reasons.
The series, written by J. Michael Stracynski with art by Marvel Comics EIC Joe Quesada, has been hyped for months including adding the One More Day logo to the corner of every Marvel Comic that was released in August. Following Back In Black, One More Day was to change Spidey's life forever, making many of the internet community to feel that the marriage of Peter Parker and Mary Jane-Watson that occurred 20 years ago in Amazing Spider-Man Annual 21 and that has been called one of the "genies in the bottle I wish I could put back in" by Quesada would be retconned by Marvel as to have never happened. Whether this is true or not, the series has been pushed back by at least two months now leading some to think it's either because of a rewrite on the book (Marvel.com has pages of protests about the retcon on their message boards) or simply because of the lateness of Quesada's artwork.
If it is a rewrite (very unlikely as it is), that would be a good thing, showing that they actually do listen to the readers. My money, however, is on Joe Q's art. He has never been known for his speed at drawing even back during his days of doing his own book ASH. Add to that his duties as Marvel EIC and you could smell the delays coming a mile off. I understand the fact that he wants to do the last story from one of the most controversial Spider-Man writers of all time (See The Other and Sins Past for reasons why) in JMS, but he should have known that the workload would be too much for him. If this was a mini series or throwaway story it would be different, but this is affecting nt only the core group of books sor a character, it is affecting the publishing plans of the company, which after this story were to stop publishing Spectacular Spider-man and Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man and replace them by publishing Amazing Spider-Man three times a month.
On another note, the next X-Men storyline Messiah Complex is doing what it is supposed to be doing. Namely, getting me excited about X-Men, something that hasn't happened since the early ninties. I actually picked up this weeks issue of X-Men (204) just to get aqquainted with the characters since I haven't read an issue since before the turn of the century. I added all the X-titles to my pull list and hope that the series comes out as good as it seems to be able to be.
Finally, the best three bucks a month you can spend at the comic shop would be Warren Ellis' Thunderbolts. Since Civil War, this series has been the most consistently enjoyable read other than Brubakers Captain America.
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