Amazing Spider Man
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Comic Summary: Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Pencils & 50/50 Cover by JOE QUESADA 50/50 Cover by MARKO DJURDJEVIC 'One More Day,' Part 1 of 4 Get ready for what will be the most talked-about and controversial comic event of the year -- brought to you by J. Michael Straczynski and Joe Quesada. The stakes have never been higher for Peter Parker. At his darkest hours -- and he's had plenty -- Peter has always had one shoulder to lean on, one person who'd remind him who he is, who he was, and who he can be. Now he's about to lose that person. What would he do...what would you do, if you only had 'One More Day?' PLUS: Director's Cut style extras!
Codes: 75960604716154411 JUL072139
- Price:
$3.99$3.19- Penciller:
- Joe Quesada
- Cover Artist:
- Joe Quesada
- Cover Artist:
- Marko Djurdjevic
- Release Date:
- September 5, 2007
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- Genre:
- Superhero
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"Tune your ear to the frequency of despair, and cross-reference by the longitude and latitude of a heart in agony."
Yes, that is actually how an official and printed Marvel Spider-Man comic begins. Not fan fiction, not a turgid writing sample. This is REAL, folks, and it's been paid for, and probably quite well, because the author behind it is a big-shot TV type.
J. Michael Straczynski owns the brains behind those words, the fingers that pecked them out on a keyboard, and this is one last bit of self-indulgence for him, one of Marvel's biggest writing powerhouses. (PowerHOMES?) And that's the biggest problem with part one of "One More Day," his much-hyped final arc as writer of Amazing Spider-Man--it IS self-indulgent.
There's little if nothing emotionally in this issue that has been truly earned through prior stories. Sure, Aunt May is dying, and sure, Spidey loves her. We know all that. But why is she dying? Because the Kingpin tried to shoot Peter Parker, and shot her instead. And why did the Kingpin try to shoot him? I have no idea. (Full disclosure: I never could finish the entire "Back in Black" storyline, so I may have missed a crucial bit of info.)
Plus, Aunt May's been dead before. So there's not much suspense in watching her kick the bucket again. It feels more like JMS wanted one last final emotional kick to see out his run, and so he constructed this false melodrama as his final issues with the character. Hey Joe, leaving Spidey might be emotional for you, but why make the character go through hell to show it?
On pencils, we have the Editor in Chief himself, Joe Quesada. If you've always liked Quesada's style, you'll probably enjoy this fine. I personally could not get past how overly rendered everything seemed to be--lots of extra line work that simply muddies up the image. That could be the inker's fault, but why would Quesada go with such a clumpy inker? Quesada must like the effect, whether it's in his pencils or the inks, and either way, it makes the pages seem thick and muddy, like wading through molasses, when a Spidey story should feel more like flinging at rapid speeds over the streets of New York City.
It all adds up to a mild ego trip by one of the most controversial spider-scribes of all time--for every moment he's managed to pull off with great style and heart, JMS has had a moment of sheer lunacy with this character. But, hell--at this point, I'd prefer some lunacy to this mild, unearned, limp and lifeless storyline.
Yes, that is actually how an official and printed Marvel Spider-Man comic begins. Not fan fiction, not a turgid writing sample. This is REAL, folks, and it's been paid for, and probably quite well, because the author behind it is a big-shot TV type.
J. Michael Straczynski owns the brains behind those words, the fingers that pecked them out on a keyboard, and this is one last bit of self-indulgence for him, one of Marvel's biggest writing powerhouses. (PowerHOMES?) And that's the biggest problem with part one of "One More Day," his much-hyped final arc as writer of Amazing Spider-Man--it IS self-indulgent.
There's little if nothing emotionally in this issue that has been truly earned through prior stories. Sure, Aunt May is dying, and sure, Spidey loves her. We know all that. But why is she dying? Because the Kingpin tried to shoot Peter Parker, and shot her instead. And why did the Kingpin try to shoot him? I have no idea. (Full disclosure: I never could finish the entire "Back in Black" storyline, so I may have missed a crucial bit of info.)
Plus, Aunt May's been dead before. So there's not much suspense in watching her kick the bucket again. It feels more like JMS wanted one last final emotional kick to see out his run, and so he constructed this false melodrama as his final issues with the character. Hey Joe, leaving Spidey might be emotional for you, but why make the character go through hell to show it?
On pencils, we have the Editor in Chief himself, Joe Quesada. If you've always liked Quesada's style, you'll probably enjoy this fine. I personally could not get past how overly rendered everything seemed to be--lots of extra line work that simply muddies up the image. That could be the inker's fault, but why would Quesada go with such a clumpy inker? Quesada must like the effect, whether it's in his pencils or the inks, and either way, it makes the pages seem thick and muddy, like wading through molasses, when a Spidey story should feel more like flinging at rapid speeds over the streets of New York City.
It all adds up to a mild ego trip by one of the most controversial spider-scribes of all time--for every moment he's managed to pull off with great style and heart, JMS has had a moment of sheer lunacy with this character. But, hell--at this point, I'd prefer some lunacy to this mild, unearned, limp and lifeless storyline.
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