Spider-Man: One More Day, Part 1 - Atop the Fourth Wall

Welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. In this episode, Linkara looks at Spider-Man: One More Day, the infamous story about Spidey selling his marriage to the devil.

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Originally uploaded July 30th, 2012.

ORIGINAL INFO: It’s Atop the Fourth Wall’s 200th Episode! What comic could be heinous enough for the position?

RUMINATIONS: Some fans think that every hundred episodes I’ll review something off of my “Top 15 Things I’ll Never Review” list and TECHNICALLY it’s been true so far. Sonic Comics were number one… and then the hundredth was Sonic Live. One More Day was on there and here we are now. I also mentioned no political satire comics and if you stretch the definition, Holy Terror for the 300th would count as that, too.

There’s not really much backstory in why I decided to do this one. It really was a matter of “Well, what can I do for my 200th episode that would be big enough?” and then I decided to reread One More Day. In doing so, especially now that I have a much more critical eye for a lot of the comics I review, I noticed all the things wrong with it that I didn’t notice before – stuff like how structurally it wasn’t well put together, the massive plot holes that could be solved very easily, and of course my thinking about all those statements made by creators about Spider-Man – his relatability and how creators kept saying the marriage is what dragged down his book. It got me thinking about him as a character and how really what the creators were saying was more about wish fulfillment than it was relatability. Spider-Man is supposed to be the everyman… and the everyman eventually grows up. Sure, Spidey is never going to grow old and die – that’s just the nature of comics… but someone like Spidey WOULD get married and have a family. He’d have to deal with the everyday bullcrap that normal people would have to – bills, taxes, buying a home, raising kids… all the stuff that people have to deal with when they grow up. Because otherwise he WASN’T relatable anymore. He was just stuck in a bubble without responsibility. And isn’t responsibility what the character is all about?

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