Spiderman the "One More Day" Series

This potentially could have been a very cool series. But to be honest I have to agree with the Spiderman fan boys that Marvel botched it big time, although I disagree with them that it wasn't a great idea and wasn't almost great. It was well on the road to be a great storyline but Marvel completely scewed it up, here's the Guts of the Storyline. During the "Civil War" storyline Spiderman came out of the closet and announced to TV news crews that Peter Parker is Spiderman and of course did this promoting Iron Mans SuperHuman Registration Act. Of course now we cue the "Civil War"and all that goes with that including Aunt May getting gunned down by one of Kingpins hit men. Lookin' to me like this storyline has some potential.

Now Aunt May is hanging on by a thread and Pete is looking to get her healed because modern medicine isn't cutting it and turns to Dr Strange. To be honest I'm not certain because I couldn't get my hands on that issue but I'd like to think Dr Strange felt that she was ready too and wanted to move on and be with Uncle Ben, so he wouldn't do it. But what really happened is that Dr Strange couldn't fix her?! WTF?! That's pure BS he's Dr freakin Strange, chalk it up to botch#1.

So Pete won't take that for an answer and in his pain an vulnerability as he leaves Dr Strange Pete is approached by a little girl who turns out to be none other than Mephisto, a Reality Altering Devil and bad ass, Creator of the Ghost Rider, Enemy of Dr Strange, and enjoys using the Mantle of the Christian Devil in the Marvel Universe. As far as evil bastards go, he's generally done right in Marvel. He offers Peter the choice of saving Aunt May in exchange for his marriage, and altering history so that Peter and MJ never fell in love. Now normally it would be against Spiderman's character to accept an offer from the devil. BUT! MJ talks him into it. That's where I separate from the Spiderman fanboys on this. YES it's against the ethos of spiderman but MJ could get him to do it. And that made for some good drama, so the story arc is still pretty solid as far as I'm concerned.

That little touch at the end where Mephisto revealed the guise of the little girl he used was actually their future daughter as he forced them to break apart was freakin epicly evil. That's why I just hate and love this series, some parts are so spot on and nail it but... Now we get to the majority of where things go horribly wrong in this storyline. Mephisto gets them to agree and he alters reality. They loose the marriage and then the rest is almost happily ever after?! WTF?! Pete gets Aunt May AND his secret identity back (he never even asked for that!) AND then gets his friend Harry and his dad Norman Osborne back ?! WTF is with that?! Mephisto is NEVER that generous nor should he be. Usually Mephisto would have Aunt May get hit by a bus or diagnosed with terminal brain cancer the next day and give her a month to live right after curing her. Then put MJ with a guy that beats her. Damn that woulda been evil... But this just isn't his style. Where are the consequences of making a deal with the Devil? It would have been easy to make this series awesome because the backbone idea is fucking awesome at it's core, but they've got to be idiots not seeing so many obviously awesome way to go.

As it turns out the end of this series was just changes the writers wanted to make and are using Mephisto as the tool to make them. The way there was awesome but the destination they picked before hand not only didn't pay off it was so bad it resulted in Marvel fans rightly booing the whole series. I kinda disagree with that I enjoyed the ride there to a completely and totally botched ending, I suspect that the destination was decided by management more so than the writers themselves. I find that hard to believe that they'd be that they're dumb considering the great story arc they took to get there. And As far as I'm concerned the Marriage is cannon now. Right next to Reed Richards and Sue Storm, it's just part of the Marvel Universe.

Oh well, I'm kinda hoping that first some good writers get involved or these guys get out of their funk or Slap management upside the head with a frying pan for not letting the story go where it was obviously supposed to go. and that Thor gets involved in this one, he's got the juice by virtue of the nature of what he is, and can put Mephisto in his place. He's kinda like The Celestial and Holy Arch-Angel of the Marvel Universe to counter these demonic creatures. I'm kinda hoping Thor sets things straight and opens up a can of cosmic whoop ass on Mephisto and puts MJ & Pete back together and then Personally takes Aunt May to be with Ben. Now that would be awesome. Besides Thor is long overdue for a moment to shine as a Marvel Character this could be a good opportunity.

We'll have to wait and see how it all plays out. I have a feeling somehow Mephisto is tied in with the dealings with Norman Osborne and Ares as they are making major plays in the Marvel universe though, hopfully it'll lead to a Marvel reboot. You gotta do that once in a while so that writers can feel free to make major changes because it'll always get reset anyway.