yeah yeah yeah, one more link on spider-man and marriage

news-a-rama has a link-fest of other people commenting on this and throws in this juicy tidbit: now the writer is backing away from supporting the story. that's right — even the guy writing it doesn't think its a good idea and make is clear that this is all marvel editor-in-chief joe quesada's decision. oy.

jms talking about it:

I’ll be honest: there was a point where I made the decision, and told Joe, that I was going to take my name off the last two issues of the OMD arc. Eventually Joe talked me out of that decision because at the end of the day, I don’t want to sabotage Joe or Marvel, and I have a lot of respect for both of those. As an executive producer as well as a writer, I’ve sometimes had to insist that my writers make changes that they did not want to make, often loudly so. They were sure I was wrong. Mostly I was right. Sometimes I was wrong. But whoever sits in the editor’s chair, or the executive producer’s chair, wears the pointy hat of authority, and as Dave Sim once noted, you can’t argue with a pointy hat.

JMS on ‘One More Day’: ‘There’s a lot that I don’t agree with’

i think im close to done talking about it. other than outrage over the story, i find the notion of 'what makes up a character' really fascinating. i read something about this a few weeks ago but still can't find it again.

as daniel over at an ear in the fireplace says:

hey're bidding farewell to the character as he has been and clearing the slate for the character as they now want him to be. And I should stop worrying about what happens to these people next, because it isn't going to logically follow from whatever happens to them in this story, and was never intended to.

so what does marvel owe us with the character? what is the essence of these characters? and are we going on a journey with them or are we simply reading the equivalent of a sitcom, where everything 'resets' at the end of an episode?