I know there will be people who will actively not want to open this thread after that subject title.
But I'm not beating the dead horse, in this case. Joe Quesada, (Editor In Chief, Marvel) has a new interview (with more details coming tomorrow) which seems to be saying that Peter and MJ never made the deal with the devil in OMD based on the events that are covered in O.M.I.T. (One Moment in Time).
Link to the interview at Comic Book Resources - http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=28545
It's more than a little confusing to me.
First, the implications to Spider-Man's universe - if no deal was made and all the changes happened due to a 'slightly' different set of circumstances (a different domino tumbling way back when) and all that, then Peter and MJ never made a deal with the devil (since that time line is gone). But then it also means, that Mephisto is free to intervene in their lives all over again since Mephisto's promise to MJ also unravels. Also it doesn't keep continuity canon since there are tons of things that happened in the past where MJ was Peter's wife (it might be something as simple as him meeting her in Denver as they are crisscrossing from NY to LA in opposite directions or it might be losing their daughter at the end of the Clone Saga (wasn't it?) or something else...). Pretty much every story since the marriage unravel will happen differently now since the marriage has unraveled. That means that all the xx years of continuity is still vapor - we only know the Peter-MJ-married version of past events - not the version that happened when Peter and MJ didn't get married. Doesn't this make the previous years of comics at least somewhat meaningless? But Joe Q states that they never wanted to negate previous comics. How does he imagine that the previous comics are still in-continuity when the past has unraveled that far back?
Second - the editorial differences - I am confused with what Joe Q is saying in this interview. JMS and Joe Q have both given detailed interviews in the OMD trade. In that trade, Joe Q takes all the credit/blame for this storyline in his interview. JMS says (in his interview) that he tried to do the best that he could of what amounted to an editorial mandate and rightly so - since he doesn't own the characters.
But in this latest interview JoeQ is saying that JMS just went contrary to all editorial mandates and that he had to rework things and all that.
This is pretty confusing to me. Does anybody have a page where all the editorial/writer viewpoints/interviews are linked to so that people can actually follow who-said-what-when?
(And I know that I really shouldn't bother since this will make my head hurt in the short and long run, but I'm still curious as to the changing positions by Joe Q and JMS on what were the real-life goings-on on how OMD came to be).
But I'm not beating the dead horse, in this case. Joe Quesada, (Editor In Chief, Marvel) has a new interview (with more details coming tomorrow) which seems to be saying that Peter and MJ never made the deal with the devil in OMD based on the events that are covered in O.M.I.T. (One Moment in Time).
Link to the interview at Comic Book Resources - http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=28545
It's more than a little confusing to me.
First, the implications to Spider-Man's universe - if no deal was made and all the changes happened due to a 'slightly' different set of circumstances (a different domino tumbling way back when) and all that, then Peter and MJ never made a deal with the devil (since that time line is gone). But then it also means, that Mephisto is free to intervene in their lives all over again since Mephisto's promise to MJ also unravels. Also it doesn't keep continuity canon since there are tons of things that happened in the past where MJ was Peter's wife (it might be something as simple as him meeting her in Denver as they are crisscrossing from NY to LA in opposite directions or it might be losing their daughter at the end of the Clone Saga (wasn't it?) or something else...). Pretty much every story since the marriage unravel will happen differently now since the marriage has unraveled. That means that all the xx years of continuity is still vapor - we only know the Peter-MJ-married version of past events - not the version that happened when Peter and MJ didn't get married. Doesn't this make the previous years of comics at least somewhat meaningless? But Joe Q states that they never wanted to negate previous comics. How does he imagine that the previous comics are still in-continuity when the past has unraveled that far back?
Second - the editorial differences - I am confused with what Joe Q is saying in this interview. JMS and Joe Q have both given detailed interviews in the OMD trade. In that trade, Joe Q takes all the credit/blame for this storyline in his interview. JMS says (in his interview) that he tried to do the best that he could of what amounted to an editorial mandate and rightly so - since he doesn't own the characters.
But in this latest interview JoeQ is saying that JMS just went contrary to all editorial mandates and that he had to rework things and all that.
This is pretty confusing to me. Does anybody have a page where all the editorial/writer viewpoints/interviews are linked to so that people can actually follow who-said-what-when?
(And I know that I really shouldn't bother since this will make my head hurt in the short and long run, but I'm still curious as to the changing positions by Joe Q and JMS on what were the real-life goings-on on how OMD came to be).
