Seriously, JQ needs to go. Enough with turning the Marvel Universe into your own fan-wank. I HATED the JMS era (seriously, the Other? stingers? spider-totems? the whole Peter-has-bastard-children-but-no-wait-Gwen-had-them-with-Norman-Osbourn? organic powers which, if you think about it, means he should've been shooting his webbing out of his ass? Seriously, what a crappy era), but it did have it's fans and as Marvel points out, he did triple sales on the Spidey titles. So yeah, it makes sense to wipe away much of his work by rebooting the series to whenever. If JMS did so much for the Spider titles, how does jettisoning MJ mean new readers will be attracted? Oh wait, married characters scare away comic book readers because....er. Screw you, JQ.

And having Harry back is pointless; even without MJ, Peter still has tons of supporting characters, we don't need the additions of Brainy and Boobsie as potential love triangles/quadrangles.

Plus, it shows that the series of pointless. Why bother making a big fuss over the un-masking if they're just gonna redo it after a year or so?

JQ, please spend more time focusing on good comics instead of trying to get into Entertainment Weekly.

When I told a friend of mine about the story he said: OMG but Civil War. That changes everything, maybe even the new Captain America is the old one.

"Newsarama people are only cheerleaders for DC. Hating on Marvel is par for the course over there."
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I don't know what you have been reading, but Newsarama is highly pro-Marvel. Shoot, even one of their former owners worked for Marvel.

Doesn’t mean Brand New Day will be bad comics, though! "
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Yes, it does.

Spider-Man: BTK will really suck.

But, IMHO, they failed.

I agree with who said Joe Q is all about shock value. Everything he did at Marvel was a "let´s do what no one has done before":

- unmask Spider-Man

- Wolverine´s origin

- bring Bucky back

- unmask all the heros (Daredevil, Iron Man, Captain America)

- let the Hulk smash everything and everyone

- disassemble the Avengers

The thing that bugs me about this arc is that Aunt May is little more than a Maguffin. It’s about her, but it’s not. Honestly, the person who suggested that she should have been supernaturally consulted has it right on the money. If this whole deal is about her and they’re dealing with someone who can apparently change the world on a whim, I would think Peter might have thought it prudent to get a little pow-wow going.

She was, in fact, via Madame Web. She begged them not to do it.

The editorial decision did not come from the main comics publishing Marvel Bullpen. MJ and Spidey in 1986 was not a real item IIRC.

The editorial decision came from STAN LEE himself in his daily Spider-man newspaper comic. HE was the one that made the decision to marry them. If anyone had the right to marry them off - HE was THE MAN TO DO IT. The Marvel Bullpen at that time decided to take advantage of the publicity in turn had MJ marry Spidey in the monthly comics.

So what is Stan Lee's take on this?

MJ and Spidey is still married in the daily newspaper strips. And I daresay, with a printed circulation internationally of several million (newspaper strips readership are hard to guess at) - thats at the very least x100 (correct me if I am wrong) the readership of the monthly books - the MARRIED Spidey is the default Spidey to the common people (Movies + Newspaper strip) >>>>>>> comics.

Jeez why did it have to be Mephisto? To me, Peter Parker was a clever guy who always found a way to do the "right thing", making a deal with Mephisto is the total polar opposite of clever and doing the "right thing". C'mon - Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlets (no matter how illogical) wiping reality and etc. will make more sense than this!

Money Speaks

This is "Chapter One" all over again. Creative bankruptcy. NEVER have a f*cking ARTIST edit your creative deparment. All you'll get is an empty canvas.

I respect Dan as a writer, but I wont support "Brand New Day". Tom Defalco's Spider-Girl, now more than ever, is officially the TRUE custodian of an organic, intelligent, and barely corrupt Marvel Universe.

So long 616. Your fractured, petty "No More Mutants" reality-warping bollocks has finally destroyed your most iconic character and a marraige that predates, PREDATES, Lois Lane and Superman's marraige.

Marvel were once innovators, now there just imitators.

...And imitating stuff DC is imitating from 1987 is just self-indulgently sad.

Now I know why they wrote in Issue 2 from One More Day:
If you want to read only one comic book in this century let it be this one!!!!
Well yes if I only read one this century I wouldn't like to find mephisto in it let alone that Deal.
So yes part two was the last one that I could at least somehow accept.

I've read the storyline 3 times now and as a 30 year reader (since 5 years old) this has hit hard. MJ and Peter have always been connected in some way for the majority of Spider-man's existance. I'm gald to see they are still acquaintances. Everythings so crazy that I'm glad it's going to once a week distribution, so I can see where things are going. It should be fun. Enjoy true believers!

And then he makes a deal with the DEVIL.

Way to go, Joe Q!

I would love to see a writer who doesn't want to write some tremendous event that takes Spider-man in a new direction or redefines what the character is all about.

What I actually want to see is just a silly yarn were perhaps one of Spidey's foes has a new plot and Spidey foils it.

It could be a mystery, adventure, romance, or comedy story as opposed to an overly melodramatic soap opera.

Totally out of character move by parker that is obviously just Quesada desperately trying to make everything the way he wants it. It doesn't matter if it makes any sense little Joey just wants to get back in the news. In fact if it were a slower news period then I am sure someone would have run the story. which is all his ego wanted.

Some one will fix it down line. Maybe Mephisto was a skrull and now Pete is in a holodeck on the enterprise which has been taken over by skrulls and none of this is really happening at all. Currently there is a Spider Skrull in New York and no one knows it.

or maybe the Scarlett Witch will whisper "continuity snafu" and everything will reset again.

I was faintly pleased to see this thing booted in the head on Newsarama:

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=141416

Makes a change from the usual GO, WEB GO! cheerleader antics they have there.

Newsarama people are only cheerleaders for DC. Hating on Marvel is par for the course over there.