This is another one inspired by watchign a YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/user/WatchMojo
In this video, the Clone Saga is listed as the most hated Spider-Man plot of all time. However, I'm wondering if either Sins Past or One More Day may have eclipsed it in terms of anti-popularity. So what does everyone else think?
Personally, I'd select Sins Past as the most wretched of all Spider-Man plots as it contains one of my least favorite villains of all time besmirching a favorite character of mine. I'd love to have seen Gwen Stacy left for dead, but no, JMS had to not only revive her but put her through this...abomination.
That's my opinion. What's yours?
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It's probably Sins Past for me, too. The premise behind One More Day is lousy, but I like the Brand New Day stories that followed (the ones that I've read) a lot. Clone Saga is lousy, but in a very 90s kind of way -- ultimately no worse than Knightfall. But Sins Past is the one I'd Mopee out of existence, definitely.
I agree with you guys: "Sins Past" is the worst for me (for the reasons Randy cited).
"One More Day" would be second ("It's magic!").
I actually didn't hate all of the "Clone Saga" (or at least the Ben Reilly stories that came after it).
Yep, Sins Past for me, too. The deal with Mephisto -- the exact opposite of what Peter Parker would do -- is a distant second.
I have a theory the One More Day plot should've been that when MJ was a struggling model she had an obsessed fan who sold his soul to Mephisto in exchange for a happy life for her. Peter could've helped him renege on the deal, only to find his own marriage was a result of it. But I don't want to criticise a story I haven't read.
Well, I have read it and I find your version more palatable.
Luke Blanchard said:
I have a theory the One More Day plot should've been that when MJ was a struggling model she had an obsessed fan who sold his soul to Mephisto in exchange for a happy life for her. Peter could've helped him renege on the deal, only to find his own marriage was a result of it. But I don't want to criticise a story I haven't read.
I like your suggestion better than what they did. I still think it was a bad decision, no matter how it was done, to get rid of their marriage. It just makes it worse that they made a deal with Marvel's version of the Devil. Leading up to this was Peter's brain-dead decision to make his secret identity public. This directly led to this version of Aunt May's death by the predictable assassins. Peter had always known how dangerous it would be for the world to know his identity, so this was almost as out-of-character as the Mephisto thing.
Captain Comics said:
Yep, Sins Past for me, too. The deal with Mephisto -- the exact opposite of what Peter Parker would do -- is a distant second.
I tend to agree. The only good thing about Sins Past is that it is very self-contained and easily dismissed as a Mopee.
In defense of J. Michael Straczynski, his original plot called for Gwen's bed partner to have been Peter. But late in the game, he says, the powers that be (presumably Joe Quesada) decreed that Peter Parker was to have been a virgin until marriage, so JMS had to find another baby daddy. That's no way to run a railroad.
In prosecution of J. Michael Straczynski, his Plan B was perhaps the worst available option. That's writing so bad it ought to be prosecuted.
A question:
Not having read "One More Day" (and there's NO WAY I'm going to now!), I once saw a offhand comment somewhere that Peter rejected Mephisto's deal and that it actually was Mary Jane who accepted. Is that correct?
Naw, Peter accepted the deal. MJ asked for a rider.
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