Not *Another* Day!
I know I rip on Marvel alot, too much really. But I just can't help it, they drive me nuts most of the time. Sorry. And this isn't about Marvel, okay, it is, but I'll try not to...., I'll be nice is what I'm saying.
I was over at JMS's (J Michael Straczynski) archive yesterday, and saw this little tidbit from the man himself. Maybe I should say a little something about JMS's site first though. It's not so much an actual website as a comment archive. Anything JMS posts, anywhere, ends up in the archive, filed away for future use. This has been going on for quite some time actually, November of '91, and hit it's big stride during the third and fourth seasons of Babylon 5. Now for the past few years it's just been collecting up anything about JMS, mostly comics related, but the big things lately have been the writers strike.
Anywho, I was over at the site and found this post, originally taken from a Marvel Universe Google group. On the group there had been a lengthy discussion about how bad many people felt the One More Day story arc was progressing. Many are not fans of the idea, some are, and some are just nitpickers. "Why Mephisto, why not ________?" Who cares? Does the vehicle of the offer change it any? As a matter of fact, I had never read Spider-Man before JMS, so some things, like why the Kingpin wanted him dead in the first place, are not part of my familiarity with the character. But whatever, I can deal.
So after the conversation on the group had been going for a bit, pretty well reasoned arguments all around actually, JMS stopped by to have his say and to make clear certain points. Yes, in "Sins of the Past", Gwen Stacey's kids were supposed to be Peter Parkers, but Joe Q. over ruled him. Straczynski also made in plain that NO, he did agree with where they were taking the character, but it's their character. When you're playing with somebody else's toys, in their sandbox, you have to play by their rules basically. You can go to the archive here, or if you want to see the original, go here, JMS's post is about a quarter of the way down on the second page.
-Dan
posted by Star Clipper at Saturday, December 15, 2007
1 Comments:
"Why Mephisto, why not ________?" Who cares? Does the vehicle of the offer change it any?
Actually, I think it does a bit. I mean, the way it is set up right now, Joe Q. is having its biggest hero, one loved by children all over the world, literally make a deal with the devil. Why someone didn't imagine this might inspire backlash by, say, religious zealot parents at some point is beyond me.
I've actually enjoyed "One More Day" so far, but I'm not a big fan of the purported ending to the series. I can't help but imagine that Stan Lee could have taken the exact same premise and done something much better with it that didn't result in ruining the character. But maybe that's just me.
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