sounds like a plot lifted from ghost rider, spawn, soloman kane, blade, faust, etc.

it would have been far more interesting to do anything else.

makes me wanna leave comics, and work only in concept design [but no ones hired me in a while :| ].

superman, the guy who scare mobsters and let gangsters [is there a difference between mob and gang sters?] die in vats of acid, the superman who was raised in an orphanages, the superman who was raised by two farmers, the superman who was raised by two farmers till his father died, the superman who wears a black triangle with a yellow S, with a red triangle and S

ARE ALL THE SAME FUCKING SUPERMAN!

After reading AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #546, it still doesn't make any sense why Quesada ordered the reboot. Yes, Peter's back in a situation similar to where he used to be in 1985, but the thing is, I ALREADY READ those stories in 1985. For all the hoopla, "Brand New Day" is just a rehash of old story ideas dressed up in modern art with a few different character names. And to make matters worse, Peter doesn't even appear as Spider-Man in #546, which is just an insanely brilliant way to bring in those mythical "new readers" looking to read Spider-Man.

I'm dropping the series. When Mephisto returns and "magics" everything back to the way it was prior to "One More Day," let me know, but until then I'll be reading GREEN LANTERN and BOOSTER GOLD instead.

Peter Parker knows that he unmasked in front of the world in Civil War.

Mephisto made it so no-one can quite remember who was underneath Spider-Man's mask when that happened, but:

Peter Parker has no memory of Mephisto's involvement.

So isn't Peter ENORMOUSLY confused why no-one else seems to remember that it was him? In fact, shouldn't he still be of the belief that the whole world knows?

Dan Slott and Steve Wacker are nothing more than used-crap salesmen trying hawk what they KNOW is garbage to what they hope are the-continually-ignorant comic book masses.

Consider yourselves FIRED, guys. When you stop selling out for an easy buck and ruining the medium you claim to love, maybe THEN I'll start buying your stuff. Until then, you're nothing more than $5 comic whores with some REALLY nasty-looking sores.

I like a lot of things about Slott. He's positive about comics, he respects the work of others, past and present. But his logic is a little faulty on tools like mindwipes, etc.

You might use such a comic bookish story device on a single issue, story, storyline or in a specific book as he sighted, but not on almost 40 years worth of stories (yes, I think this affects more stories and creators than we know). Plus, if you like JMS, Romita Jr., Roger Stern, Todd McFarlane, Erik Larsen, Al Milgrom, Bill Mantlo, Len Wein, Gerry Conway, Ross Andru and Gil Kane...well, too bad for you.

JMS was right. Good fantasy has rules. That's one earmark between good fantasy and bad fantasy.

"And now, Gollum, I shall put on the ring and you'll be a simple Hobbit again and I'll be dating an elf maiden and Sauron will be a nice guy and..."

But then again, with the Civil War, Marvel Universe has become such an utterly wretched place that I've got no interest at all in reading Marvel books.

I think my kid will like DC, though. At least there the company understands what makes these characters special. Marvel has become trash.

Best line in the interview-
"Look, hardcore fans can figure this stuff out. They've got the skills. It's all a matter of taking off the blinders, putting on your No-Prize hat, and getting creative."
Translation- "Even we can't come up with remotely plausible explaination for some of this shit, so could you guys do it for us?"

Nope, sorry kids, that twenty years worth of stories you want to cling to, the comics you grew up with, were just crap to begin with. Just a corporation cranking our product featuring a character who had been interesting for a few years in the '60s. A big money company trying to keep their cash cow flagsnip title visable the way Disney tries occasionally to remind people about Mickey Mouse.

Instead of getting the rights to the real Black Cat, they just make up some lame shit "bad girl with crush on hero" junk based on Miller's Electra ripping off Eisner's rip-off of the Batman/Catwoman relationship. Giving Spidey a mentally controlled magic black costume was just Shooter's way of messing things up, trying to give Spidey a Flash-ring or that Twirly thing Lynda Carter did. MacFarlane wasn't a story teller, he just designed pin-up pages he could auction off. Third generation characters like VeMan and Homogollum just don't matter.

You didn't miss Spider-Man by being born too late, the Ditko issues have been reprinted plenty of times, just buy them and read them and don't worry about anything not written by Stan Lee. Oh sure, there were a few touching or entertaining or nicely drawn issues along the way, but they were just products churned out by a heartless corporation. Sure, you can pick up a comic and try to visit your old friend Spider-Man, but he's not there. It's just a slapped together story fragment and some pictures of Spidey. And that's if you can figure out which comic is "real" and which is a manga version or an alternate future about his daughter or an Ultimate version set in a different universe altogether. If a company can get away with publishing a bunch of comics about a character that don't fit into the characters continuity, why would you expect that they care if any of them do?

I keep that comic in the trunk of my car because when I put it in the basement it keeps me up at night by sucking out loud.

Pete is reeling. Those little bubble things that aren't bubble appear over his head like Gil Kane used to draw.

PETE:Deal with the devil? I'm a scientist. I don't even believe in the devil. Extra-dimensional...Uncle Ben and Aunt May raised me better than that! My whole life as Spider-Man...more than I remember...has taught me more than that! And Mary Jane has always meant more to me than...anyone! I didn't make a deal with Mephisto!"

Villains lair. Suitably spooky like Gene Colan used to draw. One second, Pete's strapped to one of those virtual reality sets like Barry Windsor-Smith drew in his Weapon X stories, then...

The next, he breaks free. Nobody ever drew Spidey breaking free like Ross Andru!

PETE:"I don't believe any of this any more!"

FAUSTUS(off panel):"It seem's our little Spider has outgrown therapy, gentelmen..."

Pete, in Spidey togs minus the mask like Romita Sr. used to draw, faces...Dr. Faustus, Mastermind, Mindworm and Mysterio. FAUSTUS:"...I suggest we simply beat him to death!"

Of course, even though I like Slott's writing, his work isn't so much the kind of story he's supposed to be writing as it is ABOUT that kind of story. Kinda like Alan Moore doing old SUPERMAN in SUPREME, with the irony toned down.

Still, if you see Slott, Hanks, or even me, for that matter, in person, please just leave us be.

Not me, and it's Tuesday. Maybe Joe's seen the reviews or read the Pt. One talk-back and backed out? Or maybe the interviewer read the talk-back and came at Joe too hardball and got the interview canceled? Or maybe I'm just impatient to see what happens.

Get that last part there, AICN PsTB? I'm not complaining or being sarcastic - this is the first topic at AICN that I've really been interested in since the last episode of Heroes. So, is part two coming or not? (Or will a two part interview take three years, like one of Quesadilla's six issue monthly mini-series?)

[Yes I know I got his name wrong, and no that's not meant to be racist. I like Quesadillas and tostadas and enchiladas and tamales and tacos and burittos. It's Joe Quesada's editorship I find unpalatable. I never even hated Shooter or DeFalco, but this guy...]

It's Thursday.

See, I thought they meant THIS Monday. My bad.