One More Day Of "One More Day" Bashing

So I've been planning to write a short blog post about another aspect of "One More Day" that bugged me and that I hadn't mentioned before, which is the way Mephisto (in the story) characterizes Peter and MJ's love as this "perfect love that only comes along once every thousand years" or some similar over-the-top bullshit. I laughed out loud when I read those lines in Amazing Spider-Man # 545, because it's such a ridiculous statement to make when you consider even just the following two facts from the history of the two lovebirds in question:

• Peter was head over heels in love with Gwen Stacy long before Mary Jane was anything more than a hot-but-shallow redhead who his dottering Aunt May had tried to set him up with because May's best friend was also MJ's aunt. If Peter's relationship with Mary Jane was so mythical in the annals of romance, then how come she was his second choice and only received any consideration at all after the lovely thing occupying the top slot died horribly at the hands of a super-villain?
• Peter and MJ had previously separated - in terms of living apart - so that MJ wouldn't be baggage when JMS took over Amazing Spider-Man a bunch of years ago. That's right... they split up and were living on opposite coasts for a significant amount of time! Yeah, that's a perfect love, alright!

I think JMS (or Joe Q, as it's unclear who really wrote those last couple issues) needs to look up "perfect love" in The Big Book of Romance to get an idea of what one would really look like... and Peter and MJ ain't even close! In fact, Peter and Gwen's merging of souls was probably more likely to qualify, as at least it was nipped in the bud and never soured like this one did!

Anyway, so there's that, and I feel better already, having gotten it off my chest.

But for even more entertainment of a Spidey-bashing nature, there's this:
Top Five Stupid Spider-Man Plots. It's one the best reads I've had so far this week. I enjoyed it so much that I'll even forgive the author for being silly enough to actually consider anything that Todd McFarlane produced as being cool. Everyone's entitled to one mistake!