Art: Joe Quesada, Paolo Rivera, Danny Miki, Richard Isanove, Paul Ryan
It's been more than two years since the dreaded arc "One More Day" changed the status quo in the Spider-Man universe (i.e. undoing the marriage of Peter and MJ, Peter making a deal with Mephisto) and angered fans all over the world (including me), thus dropping the book altogether (I didn't). However, the stories after OMD were good with solid art that it made me accept the change.
Over the years, fans have been waiting for an explanation on just how the "unmarrying" actually happened. Well, Joe Quesada finally gives us that answer, writing this arc called "One Moment In Time" himself. Basically, the first issue of OMIT is just a retelling of The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21, the marriage issue, with new scenes added by Joe Q. and Paolo Rivera in between to show what really happened.
The issue opens up with the infamous panel in back in ASM #545 where MJ whispers something to Mephisto. Lots of speculation over what MJ actually whispered have been going around and with Quesada finally giving us what she said, it turned out to be very anti-climactic.
Quesada focused more on the problems and doubts of Peter and MJ about marriage, which is already present in the Annual itself, and expound it even further. The scenes about Peter and MJ's pre-wedding parties tell us how these two are totally different people and why they shouldn't get married. Add to that Peter's feelings for Gwen and his nightmare where the supervillains attacked Spider-Man and MJ (which actually happened during Civil War).
Mephisto transforms into a bird and lets Electro's goon, Eddie, get away from the cops. A little thing like this could actually lead to something much bigger, and it did. Eddie is the main reason why Peter missed the wedding. One thing though, how could Eddie throw a cinderblock and hit Spidey dead-on in the head who is on a water tower? Even if he's ripped, a normal person wouldn't be able to throw a cinderblock like that.
Although Paolo Rivera's art does not really blend in well with the Annual pages, his art still looks great. It's pretty obvious to spot as the Annual pages have more vivid colors and Rivera's art has a darker tone to it. On the other hand, Quesada's art is just bad. I don't know why MJ looks the way she is in the issue, because when Quesada drew OMD she look just fine. Also, I noticed that in some scenes of Quesada, Peter actually looks like Quesada! What?!
One More Day left a bad taste in many of Spider-Man's fans out there. And this issue is a reminder of that controversial arc over two years ago. Despite all of that, they're finally giving answers and explanations as to how it actually happened, and overall this issue is good and they executed it well enough. Now that all of that is out of the way with this issue, I think it will get better from here on.
Spidey Sundays by Stan Lee & Marcos Martin: it's good to see Green Goblin as the Green Goblin again. With Bull playing catch with him, it's a fun read.
Rating: 3/5
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