On his blog, Peter David shares some thoughts on how fans are reacting to the big Spider-Man: One More Day story and how a statement he made about it has been misconstrued:

So I shall now clarify: All I said is that it’s not the direction I would have gone in. That’s a far cry from saying that I hated it. Let’s remember I’m the person who did a three part storyline that brought back Uncle Ben and was pilloried by any number of fans for it, in some cases sight unseen. So it’s not as if I can claim to have my finger on the pulse of what makes fans happy where Spider-Man is concerned.

Hell, lots of fans dogpiled on my run on “Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man,” crabbing about everything from a high schooler contemporary to a teen Peter Parker who had an on-line blog to the fact that I “wasted” two issues on a story involving Mexican wrestling, to the entire notion of how dare I write a follow-up to “The Other” (not to be confused with the fans who complained bitterly because they believed that there would be NO follow-up to the Other.) They crabbed about Todd’s artwork. Hell, they even crabbed about the title of the comic, for God’s sake, claiming that it made it sound like a comic for kids…because, y’know, heaven forbid that kids should find anything about Spider-Man appealing.

He also points out what any fan who has ever read a comic by Marvel or DC should already know. “I mean, jeez, we’re dealing with a medium in which death itself is simply a temporary set-back, and fans are treating an updating of ‘Doctor Faustus’ as if it’s a crime against humanity,” he says.

On a lighter note, David also has some theories about what Mary Jane whispered to Mephisto.

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