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01/11/2008, 08:52

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Two great articles on ICV2 regarding OMD

"The OMD Fiasco" -- http://www.icv2.com/articles/talkback/11890.html

"No Deal" -- http://www.icv2.com/articles/talkback/11889.html

Both of these are great opinion pieces on the One More Day travesty.

Loved this part:

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But what really got to me about One More Day is they're trying to sell Peter and Mary Jane giving up the last ten (relative) years of their lives as well as their supposedly perfect love to be somehow heroic, when it is really selfish.

To me the core concept of Spider-Man was Peter Parker's constant struggle to do the right thing no matter the cost, so it seems more than a little out of character for him to give up and accept a quick fix to his problems instead of living with the consequences of his actions (a lesson he should have learned when he was sixteen). Supposedly it's about his guilt over the shooting of Aunt May, but it's really about Peter's inability to live without her, so it's kind of strange in all the pages of dialogue preceding his decision, he never asked himself the only real question: Is this what Aunt May would have wanted?

No. Not the (let's face it) cardboard cut-out created by Stan Lee, and certainly not the very real character J. Michael Straczynski turned her into during his run. She wouldn't have wanted Peter to make that kind of sacrifice for her, and she certainly wouldn't have wanted him to consort with the devil to do it.

01/11/2008, 09:40

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Great Read. I love this part.

"I suppose it says a lot about me that I want Peter Parker, a guy I grew up with, to do the same, but Joe's right; we shouldn't ask him to grow up. He owes the next generation the same opportunity we had to see him dating all the wrong people and beating the #### out of bad guys in rubber masks. One More Day has been called a great jumping off point for old fans, and I've got to admit as that it works great: because this is where I get off."
- Steve Bennett

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