I obviously have a terrible memory for comics-event promotions, because I completely forgot about the above teaser from October for Marvel’s “One More Day” storyline. Thankfully, blogger Kirk Warren remembered. So, what happened?
Was the teaser a red herring? Was Loki swapped for Mephisto during rewrites? Is Gwen Stacy secretly the Lord of the Lower Depths?
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:09 am
Well, if you really analyze the ad, it doesn’t say it will be on of THOSE people. Maybe that is the gag?
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:38 am
Perhaps this evil teaser is in regards to who’ll save Peter from the aftereffects of One More Day?
Then again, this isn’t the first/only time Marvel & Quesada have lied to us in regards to OMD, is it….?
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:45 am
I didn’t read One More Day. Did Spider-Man need to be saved at all? Wasn’t it Aunt May that needed to be saved?
January 2nd, 2008 at 10:22 am
It must have been Loki, given JMS used him earlier in his run and he owed Spidey a favour or something - poor guy was rewritten away . . .
January 2nd, 2008 at 10:24 am
‘BUT AT WHAT COST?’
Presumably the number of Spidey fans who have had enough x $3.99?
January 2nd, 2008 at 10:26 am
Actually, nothing in the text says that it will be one of the people pictured. The text says, “Only one person in the Marvel Universe can save Spider-Man.” The pictures show a *few* of the people in the marvel universe.
It’s kinda implied that it will be one of the people pictured, but nothing actually says that.
January 2nd, 2008 at 10:49 am
Based on that ad, maybe the MJ in “OMD” was actually a skrull and it wasn’t her soul to offer up (hence the whisper)?
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:16 am
The whisper is definitely going to have *some* kind of impact. Perhaps she remembers everything and manages to get Peter to remember everything within a couple of years. Or maybe she remembers but Peter never will, and that affects their relationship from here on. Perhaps she asked for something else that the fans will love. Or perhaps she asked for something else that the fans will hate.
January 2nd, 2008 at 12:43 pm
The Skrull comment is interesting. Maybe Mephisto is a Skrull? Or else, like a prior poster mentioned, the “saving Spider-Man” hasn’t actually happened yet and Loki will still play a part.
January 2nd, 2008 at 2:30 pm
For the record, I think it was always planned to be Mephisto, as in an early Wizard of 2007, they did a Villians of the Marvel U in 2007 thing. It had Ultron, Doom (whose quietly doing a lot it seems), Modok, The Hood, Mephisto and others.
One of the Marvel editors said that Mephisto played the biggest role of the year in the Marvel U, so when he wasnt involved in Civil War, it became kinda obvious where he was going.
January 2nd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
It says one of those people will save Spider-Man, but wasn’t OMD about saving Aunt May?
January 2nd, 2008 at 5:06 pm
I’m guessing it was Loki, as he owed Spider-Man a favor, but Loki didn’t exist in Marvel continuity at the time the ad came out AND Loki owing Spider-Man a favor wouldn’t justify him taking the marriage in return. So they used Mephisto.
January 2nd, 2008 at 5:07 pm
It does not say that one of those people will save Spider-Man! It says that someone, within the entire Marvel Universe, will save Spidey.
And they obviously mean someone can save him from the dilema that he’s in. Spidey felt like he’d have been torn apart if he’d been responsible for his Aunt dying, so the story was about saving Spidey. Also, if they’d said it was to save Aunt May, that would have given away parts of the story earlier than they wanted to.
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
It’s the devil in the middle. DUH!
January 3rd, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Well, Joe Q has proven himself a liar, again.
January 6th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
The MEPHISTO storyline that WIZARD was talking about hasn’t been published yet.
There’s going to be a HUGE mystical storyline in the next year or so, which has been having it’s foundations laid out over the past several years.
Look at the Nightcrawler series, the last few issues of the FANTASTIC FOUR “4″ series, and some scenes in Spectacular Spider-Man.
*Basically, nearly anything that Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has written the last 3 years.
It’s going to be a mystical epic similar to the cosmic epic that is Annihilation.
Look for it… late 2008 or early 2009.
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P-TOR
January 6th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
You’re all wrong. It’s Willie Lumpkin.
March 20th, 2008 at 3:16 am
It’s really sad the quality of writing at Marvel now days. It’s… really sad.