I came across this randomly when I was going through some old posts and thought it was interesting, what with One More Day just ending and all. It was released as a teaser image by Marvel back when they delayed OMD for the second or third time.So, now that we know how badly OMD ended, anyone have any idea what the heck this teaser image was supposed to mean? Not one of those characters ended up involved in this whole debacle. Was it all just a lie to get readers talking? Usually these things, while being vague, eventually make sense after the fact. Much like the actual story, I guess even the teasers are incomprehensible. [more after the jump]
However, CBR has an interview with Joe Q stating he and JMS wanted to resurrect Gwen Stacy until they were later convinced by all of the editors and creative staff that it was a bad idea. Was she the "only person in the Marvel Universe that can save Spider-Man"?
In that same interview, they talk about the massive rewrites of JMS's final couple issues. Was Loki originally going to be featured as the deus ex machina of this piece, playing on the favour he owed Spider-Man when Peter bought him a hot dog, and later changed to Mephisto due to editorial mandates?
Seriously, does anyone have any idea what this teaser represented? I am really clueless right now. None of those people is featured in One More Day. I had a lot of fun speculating about these people when this teaser was released, but now I'm just annoyed that it was a complete waste of time, much like the past 20 years of Spidey comics were thanks to OMD. I know I said I didn't want to talk about OMD, but this "teaser image" just pissed me off when I saw it again and I wanted to see if anyone can make heads or tails of it now that the story is over.
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Happy New Year. I am definitely am feeling your pain here. I re-read the OMD ending again yesterday just to make sure it didn't blow as much as I thought it did. There are enough loopholes in the story that any decent writer could fix it if Joey Q got kidnapped or something. As far as this teaser image goes...your guess is as good as mine. But its in keeping with Marvel's crappy continuity and dangling storylines. (I've been saying on Major Spoilers for a while that Marvel needs their own quasi-crisis event to clear this up...but that's another subject entirely.) I think the delay and re-writes probably led to an image that totally ended up being a red herring. I think JMS had a better to story to tell and he got screwed by editorial.
My opinion is that one of these characters is going to be here AFTER One More Day, and somehow have knowledge of it, and Save Spider-Man by telling him of it and helping him fix it. So OMD, like a lot of things in comics, has a chance of only being temporary.
They probably released this image back when they had a different ending planned for One More Day. As you mention, both JMS and Quesada wanted Gwen back. In his CBR interviews Quesada stated that others changed his mind and several parts of the conclusion had to be rewritten. So this teaser probably had something to do with that original ending, most likely Gwen's return. Either that or it was deliberate misdirection.
The only worthwhile thing about the whole OMD mess is the fun drama between Quesada and JMS now unfolding in their respective interviews.
That and the parody of this I saw on Newsarama where DD said something along the lines of "Keep me the hell out of this!"
It's still possible LOKI was POSING as Mephisto.
He owed Spidey a favor from early on JMS runs and could still hideaway his Identity using magic (which seems to be the case since Peter removing the mask makes folks recall it all).
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