The only thing that comes to mind after I read the end of the One Moment in Time story line is why? Why did they stretch on One More Day/Brand New Day and all those other confusing story lines where we weren’t sure what really happened? Why in hell did they wait so long to give a reasonable way for Parker and Mary Jane to split? And why didn’t Quesada just wait till they had a sensible story (like One Moment in Time) instead of Parker making a deal with Mephisto to save Aunt May and make everyone forget his true identity (lamest Story Line Ever).

After I put aside all of those questions swarming in my head I did realize this is the first Spidey story line that I have enjoyed in awhile. Of course I did read each issue with a morbid curiosity; curious because they were rewriting history that they had already rewritten (something I swear they said they weren’t going to do) and that rewrite was widely booed by fan boys everywhere.

Quesada had repeatedly said that the separation of Mary Jane and Peter was vital to keeping the Spidey book fresh, but had to be approached in a delicate way. Not with divorce (cause that would set a bad impression) and you just couldn’t go off and kill another one of Peter’s love interests, but making a deal with a demon, well that is something that we need to teach the youths of today to do.

Not enough kids make pacts with Satan these days.

But after reading One Moment in Time (or OMIT as it was fondly called for many months) it brings to question why couldn’t they have used this story line to begin with? Sure it changes time lines and is slightly impossible for it to really have happened, but as Quesada kept saying for the Mephisto story line….”it’s Magic, it doesn’t need an explanation.” ….which is true Mr. Quesada, but at least this story containing magic didn’t suck.