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While thinking a bit about the story-telling atrocity that is the Spider-Man story "One More Day," (warning: spoilers for a horrible not-even-a-story story which nobody should buy anyway) I think I figured out a little bit about how life works.
It seems that every step that's taken comes at great expense, somehow, and it makes me wonder...what if we're unconsciously presented with the possibility of what we might gain, and knowing only that we will lose something, but never what, specifically -- and it invariably ends up being a price we wouldn't willingly pay?
I'm sure that the universe is simpler than we allow ourselves to believe. I'm sure that we understand this universe on an intuitive level deeper that we're prepared to acknowledge. And given our propensity to personify everything, I'm not sure this isn't too far from the truth....
It seems that every step that's taken comes at great expense, somehow, and it makes me wonder...what if we're unconsciously presented with the possibility of what we might gain, and knowing only that we will lose something, but never what, specifically -- and it invariably ends up being a price we wouldn't willingly pay?
I'm sure that the universe is simpler than we allow ourselves to believe. I'm sure that we understand this universe on an intuitive level deeper that we're prepared to acknowledge. And given our propensity to personify everything, I'm not sure this isn't too far from the truth....
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What's up with OMD? I keep hearing wailing and gnashing of teeth but I'm not a Spider-fan so I CBF reading scans.
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Aunt May's been shot and is dying, so Peter and Mary Jane make a deal with the quite-literal devil to save May's life. In return, he takes their marriage and their memories of it, along with the last 20-25 or so years (our time) of stories. Pete and MJ are suddenly single and are on rocky terms. May's still alive, of course, and so's Harry, again. And nobody remembers Pete revealing himself to the world a year ago (again, our time) during the Civil War.
It's a pretty naked editorial fiat masquerading as an actual story (and requires Pete and MJ to make a deal with Mephisto, an entity practically defined by his lack of benevolence) as Joe Quesada's made no secret of his spite for the P/MJ marriage. It's everything a person can hate about comic book story telling mixed in with a healthy lump of contempt for the book's fans.
Me, I don't read the Spider-books, and I certainly don't see any compelling reason to start now....
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I don't usually want to hear what people have to say when it comes to music, because I feel my success in music is up to me an my private teacher, not my friends.
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I am fine with that. That is a pretty cheesy idea. JMS apparently has stepped away from it, saying it was Quesada's direction. (Hey, I have a job and boss, too. I understand).
I am a pretty forgiving comic fan compared to most, but this seems like a big mis-step. There also seems a good deal of potential there from what I read. A lot of different ways to go, and that was one of the worst ideas.
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I don't like the idea because it's purely Quesada's baby that he's crowbarred into the storyline in a -- even for a Marvel comic book -- laughably implausible manner. There are a million ways of making this work, but this ain't one of 'em.
And there's the pure contempt this shows for not just every reader who's enjoyed those now-invalid stories, but the creative teams who crafted them. It's less pervasive at DC, but you can still see the same contempt flare up from time to time (especially for poor Marv Wolfman). Apparently Joe Quesada and Dan Didio are in some sort of competition to become the new boogeyman for the four-color fan.