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I wasn’t really going to say anything about “One More Brand New Day”, because I think it’s been done to death, but then I had a discussion with Mike Haynes from Panels of Awesome about how the way my long-standing love for the X-Men can result in a blindness to many faults in their stories mirrors the way his long-standing love for Spider-man results in a blind spot for many of his stories’ faults and I realized that I should probably make this post.

Because Mike really, really likes Brand New Day and I - someone who has no sentimental attachment to Spidey at all - really, really don’t.

I can somewhat understand how someone like Mike would enjoy the new Spider-man. It’s a throwback to the early years, when Spider-man was a lovable loser and things were a bit lighter and more care-free. I mean, we’re stepping back to the glory days of Stan Lee, taking the character back to his roots.

I have lots of problems with this, but here’s one of the big ones - neither Dan Slott nor Joe Quesada are Stan Lee and, even if they were, this is not the 1960’s.

I realize this is blasphemy, and I give Stan Lee all the credit in the world for how groundbreaking his work was at the time, but “at the time” is the operative phrase in that statement. By today’s standards, comics from the 1960’s blow. The writing, the art, the plot, all of it is crap. It broke new ground, it set the stage for all the great stuff we have now, but there’s no way in hell I want to go back to that crap.

While One More Day was coming out, Mike kept on saying that it may be the worst idea in years, but he thought it would result in such good stories that it would all be worth it. But this isn’t a good story; it’s a 30-year-old man living with the aunt that he has a very unhealthy fixation with and borrowing money from a super-villain best friend who is supposed to be dead.

And that brings me to my other unforgivable problem with Brand New Day/One More Day. It was so bad, such a retarded idea with such a ridiculous, unexplained resolution, that I can’t even accept what I’m reading now. How can we move on to a brand new day when we haven’t been given any explanation or closure as to how the previous “day” ended and this one began? There are so many unexplained plot holes and contradictions that not only Spider-man, but the entire Marvel Universe doesn’t really make sense right now.

I’ll give the book a little longer in the hope - for Spidey’s sake - that it gets better, but I’m afraid that I’m about done and Quesada lost me at

It’s magic, we don’t have to explain it.

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Robert Parizek at Between The Staples directs us all to Chip Zdarsky’s internet winning mash-up of the recent OMD hoopla and Watchmen:

Quesada is an evil genius.

An evil something, at least…

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I’d heard that the Hulk was going to turn red, but I’d never heard any speculation that it was going to be someone else turning into the Hulk. I’d always assumed that something would happen to Bruce Banner (Is it telling of my generation that I had to pause and make sure I didn’t type “David Banner”?) to make him turn into a red, bulkier, more rage-fueled Hulk. That idea is lame enough, but if they’re going to make it a new person too, that’s double lame.

On the bright side, that will probably give me another comic to drop, since this “One More Day” crap is shaping up to be the worst idea in the history of Spidey, even taking into account the Clone Saga and the six arms and alllllllllll that shit.

So, with One More Day ruining Spiderman, if they ever get the last two issues out, and this Red Hulk crap looking to ruin Hulk, I’ll be saving money.

Thanks Quesada, I guess.

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