Amazing Spider-Man, One Moment In Time preview

[sherkahn]

IGN has the preview of Amazing Spiderman #638.




Before the bile and vitriol begins to froth, and Marvel shovels more poo on the marraige to Mary Jane Watson, we get to find out what this moment means.


The Brown hair? Mary Jane Watson Parker.
The Red hair? Mephisto
The villain? Joe Quesada

suggested tags:

character: Spider-Man/Peter Parker
character: Mary Jane Watson-Parker
character: Mephisto

creator: Joe Quesada
creator: Paolo Rivera

Comments

[mullon]

Mephisto needs a haircut.

[spockfran.livejournal.com]

Why is Quesada writing this???
I don't really care about Spidey anymore but you would think they would get a high profile writer on this just so this story won't get flamed immediately and make it seem like they actually put thought into this.

[sherkahn]

Quesada wants to make sure that when they open up the Marvel theme park in the near future he gets enough people handing out the paid-for copies of the Amazing Spiderman #545, just outside the park to religious nuts and "family action groups". This secures that more material to fan the flames and that way that special place in hell for terrible ret-cons like this is safe and secured just for him, and he gets the full brunt of the reaming Disney's legal and spin teams will give him.

[darklorelei]

Martyr complex?

[crabby_lioness]

Quesada is Norman Osborn.

It explains so much.....

[shadowpsykie]

You know, i HATED the Mephisto deal issue... not the actual story, but what that story did. looking at the story purely objectively, i liked the way it was written, and the art suited the mood/story.

that said.... i hated the outcome....

[kirke_novak]

Tears. Delicious tears. They taste like broken marriage, like Devil, like a million of fans screaming in agony. Delicious tears...

[cyberghostface]

My thoughts exactly, Mary Jane.

[combatsoup]

i think this calls for something a bit stiffer than wine.

[darkknightjrk]

It's almost like the artist agrees with us, and putting things like this to make himself feel better while thinking about the money.

[neev]

That cup of tea is HUGE. I realize it's supposed to be in perspective, etc etc, but all I can do is stare at it

[hyperactivator]

My biggest problem with this is the villain is getting away with it.

Evil won continues to win and I have no closure.

[sailorlibra]

THIS. I mean, I'm a huge MJ/Peter shipper, but them breaking up isn't the thing that bothers me the most. It's that something really bad happened to these people and nothing has been done about it. Divorce is natural. Making deals with the devil really isn't.

[punishermax]

~Mephisto stares out at a small crystal ball containing an image of Peter and Mary Jane, happy and carefree~

And I would do anything for love, I'd run right into hell and back
I would do anything for love, I'll never lie to you and that's a fact
But I'll never forget the way you feel right now, oh no, no way
And I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, I won't do that
Anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, oh I won't do that

~He slams away the ball in time to the upswing to the music. It shatters on the ground as he stalks through a darkened hall covered in pictures of MJ~

Some days it don't come easy, and some days it don't come hard
Some days it don't come at all, and these are the days that never end
Some nights you're breathing fire, and some nights you're carved in ice
Some nights you're like nothing I've ever seen before or will again

~He stares at a large framed postrait of MJ. It dominatres one end of a gigantic hall. He places a hadn on it as a plan slowly comes to mind~

Maybe I'm crazy, but it's crazy and it's true
I know you can save me, no one else can save me now but you

As long as the planets are turning, as long as the stars are burning
As long as your dreams are coming true, you better believe it

~He runs down the hall as the music increases in tempo behind his footfalls. ~

~he arrives at a station filled with plans, he picks up one after another, each one tossed to the side before he comes across one in particular. He stares at it as the wheels turn behind his eyes. He smiles as he runs down the hall.~

Some days I pray for silence, and somedays I pray for soul
Some days I just pray to the God of Sex and Drums and Rock 'N Roll
Some nights I lose the feeling, and some nights I lose control
Some nights I just lose it all when I watch you dance and the thunder rolls

Maybe I'm lonely and that's all I'm qualified to be
There's just one and only, the one and only promise I can keep

As long as the wheels are turning, as long as the fires are burning
As long as your prayers are coming true, you better believe it

~A sot rings out as he runs, he knows the plan and he knows how it will work. Pictures of MJ flash by as he runs past them at an incredible speed~

That I would do anything for love, and you know it's true and that's a fact
I would do anything for love, and there'll never be no turning back

But I'll never do it better than I do it with you, so long, so long
And I would do anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, no no no I won't do that

~Hours later he finishes talking to them both. As Peter fades away, MJ stands in front of him, she is disappearing slowly into the ether of the new world. He has what he wanted. Their marriage. All the memories and joys and love. All for him.~

~He stares as she slowly fades away and leans in~

Anything for love, oh I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love, but I won't do that, no I won't do that

[thatnickguy]

Mary-Jane probably thought, "Pfft. Gwen slept with Norman Osborn, huh? I can top that."

[starwolf_oakley]

I still hope we get some sense of "who remembers what" regarding CIVIL WAR and the big TV unmasking. Someone made a very funny flow chart of that, with Peter wondering "If I didn't reveal my identity on national TV, why did I fight with the Pro-Regs so long? And why did I change sides?"

[halialkers]

So what good is being an evil overlord if you can't afford a hair cut?

[espanolbot]

Maybe he's trying, unsuccessfully, to riff David Bowie in Labyrinth?

He does go through a lot of trouble to steal someone's baby here, even if it isn't their actual half brother or sometihng.

[rdfox]

...so Cheesy Joe's Is Cheesy had to do the art on this book himself.

Is it just because he's a damned good artist, or was it because nobody else wanted to be dragged down with the ship on this one?

Also, a friend elsewhere just posted this prediction, based on the preview: "She wants to have some wine and celebrate something, they argue, she makes coffee, he dumps it out and probably goes off webslinging, and she gets drunk off the wine, then Mephisto sweeps in and takes advantage of her while she's drunk and angry. I'm absolutely positive Mephisto's going to come in and not even have to charm her much."

The scary part is that it makes entirely too much sense... uncreative, sexist, vaguely rape-ish? That's pretty much what Spidey's been lately, so it'll fit right in. x.x

[werehawk.livejournal.com]

Obviously, from the unlettered pages, Joey Q has issues. Sorry for his wife.

And the art is inconsistent. From how overweight Peter looked in the first page, I imagined briefly that MJ left him because he was letting himself go.

[starwolf_oakley]

Read ONE MORE DAY again (if you want). Peter Parker looks like Jack Black on some pages.

[fredneil.livejournal.com]

Part of me wants to say "By this point, I don't care why they broke up. You've got your single Peter Parker, now put out a good comic book about him."

Then I remember that $3.99 is the normal price point for Spider-Man and that it comes out three times a month, so it's not like I'd buy the comics anyway.

To put that price in perspective: A copy of Spider-Man costs 40 times what it did in 1965. A gallon of gas costs 9 times what it did in 1965.

[darkknightjrk]

"we get to find out what this moment means."

...OH. Is that what that is? I was looking at that cover at first and thinking, "...is MJ making out with some random girl? Is that how MJ and Peter split up? ...Well, I didn't see that one coming."

[domino_blue]

I hate to bash people because we can all make mistakes(though admittedly I do it a lot) I just think Joe Q didn't think this one out to well because let's face it if he did a reboot like with what DC did with Wonder Woman he would not get this much backlash, but because he did One More Day he pretty much ruined Spider-man creditability for many people, hell even my friends who are not into comics think this was stupid on every level and my friends who are into comics,are driven from Spidey comics because they can't take Spidey seriously as a hero.

Try to look on the bright side

[roguefankc]

This will eventually be retconned and undone and Peter will be back to the "with great power comes great responsibility" person he always was.

Let's face it: there's no way Quesada can keep this charade up for the next ten years.

Re: Try to look on the bright side

[domino_blue]

I hate to be pessimistic but if anything has proven something stupid can last a long time it's the comics industry the Clone Saga?

[arilou_skiff]

Say what you want about Quesada, but he draws some pretty pictures.

[jjgalahad]

Since we do not yet know what Mary Jane whispered, allow me to provide the missing dialogue for all the subsequent pages in the preview:

PAGE 2 - MARY JANE: "PETER! FUCKING LOOK AT THIS AWESOME FUCKING WINE I JUST BOUGHT! HOLY FUCKING SHIT IT IS EVEN RED LIKE MY HAIR! HOLY SHIT! THIS WINE PETER! SERIOUSLY LOOK AT THIS FUCKING BOMB-ASS WINE!"

PAGE 3 - PETER: ". . . the fuck? It's like, 8AM, MJ!"
MJ: "Lalala, I can't hear you, I'm flying into your house, lookit my hands, I'm a bird! Whee!"
Peter: "MJ, are you on meth again?"
MJ: "I'm so excited! I'm so excited! I'm so . . . *sob* scared!"
PETER: "Oh. Oh, man. Jesus, I am waaaay too fucking stoned right now to deal with you."

Page 4 - PETER: "Zzzzzzz . . . mmrgle."
MJ - "HEY! Hey, Peter! Wanna see what you look like when you're totally stoned? Lookit me!"
MJ - "With Great Power Comes, like, . . . NACHOS."
PETER: "Whuh? Fuck, MJ, quit it! Not cool! Not cool."
PETER: "S'just not . . . Uncle Ben was . . . Zzzzzzz . . ."

PAGE 5 - MJ: "Oh, shit, I'm crashing too now. *YAWN*"
Peter: "Huh?"
MJ: "What?"
Peter: "Didjou say somethin'?"
MJ: "Zzzzzzzz . . ."
PETER: "Aw, man, my buzz is fading . . ."
MJ: "Zzzzzzzz . . . mrrrgle."

PAGE 6 - MJ: "Ha! Dumbass! I'm not asleep, I'm just resting my eyes! Now, watch me make tea . . . WITH MY EYES CLOSED!"
Peter: "MJ, please don't! You'll drop shit and scald my wicked cool sideburns and/or bangs!"
MJ: "Check it - I also did it ONE-HANDED! Bizzow!"
Peter: "These teacups are really fucking hot. Are your fingers burning too?"
MJ: "I have Pretty Princess Shoes on!"
Peter: "What does- holy shit, I'm seeing things in my tea! WTF does Aunt May put in that "medicinal" weed of hers?"

PAGE 7 - PETER: "MJ, I seriously gotta go crawl into the bathtub until the visions stop. You cool?"
MJ: "Pfft, whatevs, you lame-ass man-child. I got 99 problems but this wine ain't one!"

[tsunamiwombat]

Frankly, I think this is a new Meme by this point. We just got Quesada Roll'd.

Never gonna give you up,
never gonna let you down
never gonna tell a lie
or desert you

Unless editorial mandate requires it ZING