My Zen Arcade

Just to be clear…

I don’t have a problem with the goal of One More Day.  There’s nothing wrong with trying to return the character to his roots, being the underdog, being unhappy in his personal life, etc.   Though, really, unmasking himself on TV because he’d sided with Tony Stark, blind to the mildly fascist ways the billionaire was bringing law and order, finally, to the realm of masked heroes (with or without powers) and this was how he could best show support for the guy (while stark redid the helicarrier to match his armor) even though it undermined everything he’d used his secret identity for during his entire life…and yes, that sentence is exactly as stupid as it sounds…was probably the most interesting thing to happen to Spider-man in ages.

The problem was that Quesada didn’t want to deal with what it means for Parker to be an adult, to have consequences to his actions.  Further, he didn’t want to have to bring a new level of depth to the book by bringing the characters through a divorce.  THEN, on top of all that, instead of getting some writers to bring their ‘A’ game and figure out how to get out of this corner, they just, more or less, said it was all a dream.

That’s just weak.  Go write for soap operas, you hack.