Axel Alonso discusses what One More Day made possible

[One More Day]

If I can add in my two cent to this...

I would say it would depend on the writer of the story to make it buy able for me.

Now I will admit and say that I once said that I would never buy Spider-man post OMD, but then again if it weren't for writers like Fred Van Lente and Dan Slott remind me of what makes Spider-man special, then I would have just quit the series all together.

Now I enjoy Dan's current Spider-man work and if someday he can find a way to undo OMD, then I will be ever grateful to him.

...your writing style is odd. Is English not your first language? Not that it matters.

What's wrong with OMD? It did what it was intended to do: wipe away the horrible marriage. Single Spidey is awesome!

[classicgmer]

Axel isn't really saying anything Joe Q & Tom Brevoort & a couple others haven't so to me his comments are just retreads of whats been said before. Outside of dating options I'm not really seeing where OMD was necessary to do all or some of the things that've been done since so I've always found this stance to be pretty laughable....If he really wanted to make his point (and I'm not sure that he did really) he should've thrown out a couple of examples.

[Ed Sizzers]

"one <story development> that will probably be rectified in the future. ".
I don't feel offended when Axel presents his view, even though I disagree with most of it. That is a huge plus. And the last quote implies that OMD was a mistake.

I can't help but think that last quote was in reference to Nightcrawler, rather than OMD.

[Mister Mets]

I can't help but think that last quote was in reference to Nightcrawler, rather than OMD.

Yeah, that's what it looks like to me.

[Xenon]

Axel isn't really saying anything Joe Q & Tom Brevoort & a couple others haven't so to me his comments are just retreads of whats been said before. Outside of dating options I'm not really seeing where OMD was necessary to do all or some of the things that've been done since so I've always found this stance to be pretty laughable....If he really wanted to make his point (and I'm not sure that he did really) he should've thrown out a couple of examples.

It's notable for two reasons

1) They still won't admit it was a collosal ****-up or at least that their motive was simply "because that's what we wanted"
2) As the new EiC, some were hopeful that perhaps Mr. Alonso's position on the matter would be slightly different/more reasonable, his answer demonstrates that this is, unfortunately, not the case.

[dornwolf]

I can't help but think that last quote was in reference to Nightcrawler, rather than OMD.

While they might regret Nightcrawler they fixed that by adding THREE variations of the character with AoA Nightcrawler for X-force, Kid Nighcrawler for X-treme, and the bamfs.

[ShaggyB]

2) As the new EiC, some were hopeful that perhaps Mr. Alonso's position on the matter would be slightly different/more reasonable, his answer demonstrates that this is, unfortunately, not the case.

I always wondered why people even began to hope that, when he was one of the Editors of the OMD story.

[Xenon]

I always wondered why people even began to hope that, when he was one of the Editors of the OMD story.

JMS was the WRITER on OMD, and we all see his reaction four years down the line, so the fact that Alonso was an editor I don't think warranted a lot of consideration.

Plus, well, hope is a funny thing, we'll go to great lengths to keep it alive.

[classicgmer]

It's notable for two reasons

1) They still won't admit it was a collosal ****-up or at least that their motive was simply "because that's what we wanted"
2) As the new EiC, some were hopeful that perhaps Mr. Alonso's position on the matter would be slightly different/more reasonable, his answer demonstrates that this is, unfortunately, not the case.

#1 They're never gonna admit that it was a "collsal ***-up" (your words not mine BUT I do agree) because in their eyes it wasn't. The end result of getting rid of the marriage was all that mattered & things like how the story was told, reasons given for the erasure of the marriage, method utilized, etc these things were all secondary & not that important so long as the marriage was eliminated.


#2 I don't know why people held out on Alonso having a different outlook I mean if you held a position of influence/power within a Co. wouldn't you want to make sure those closest to you including your eventual successor held similar outlooks/views on various matters that you would?

Believe me the outlook of the people way up top guiding ASM won't be changing anytime soon which is why I will not be buying ASM for a looooooooong time to come no matter what creative team they put on the book.

[Lascoden]

Alonso: I'm always a bit skeptical when people say they’ve dropped a series, yet they seem to know everything that's occurred in it over the last few months. [Laughs]

Um, dude, they have this thing called the internet.

[Ed Sizzers]

Alonso: I'm always a bit skeptical when people say they’ve dropped a series, yet they seem to know everything that's occurred in it over the last few months. [Laughs]

Um, dude, they have this thing called the internet.

Post of the day.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

It sounds like a deflection and not realizing the reality of things nowadays. Sure people may know what is going on with your characters and what is happening in the titles. But they are less doing several things.

1.) Reading the issues at the LCS - Which isn't buying your product.

2.) Reading the Previews at the LCS - Which isn't buying your product.

3.) Reading spoilers online - Which isn't buying your product.

4.) Going to sites and stealing the work to read for free - Which isn't buying your product.


Now I'm sure some do buy the books. I am sure some will do that. But if some are claiming , well we haven't bought it and the EIC dismisses it believing they all are lying ...well there is options out there where they don't have to. But of course I suppose its best to jam your fingers in your ears and deny that.

Good luck with Spider-Man , Alonso. Its been over 4 years and the company still can't seem to get past OMD by having the EIC bring it up.

[Kevinroc]

#1 They're never gonna admit that it was a "collsal ***-up" (your words not mine BUT I do agree) because in their eyes it wasn't. The end result of getting rid of the marriage was all that mattered & things like how the story was told, reasons given for the erasure of the marriage, method utilized, etc these things were all secondary & not that important so long as the marriage was eliminated.

This is the real reason OMD is a trainwreck of epic proportions that is still being talked about even now. They didn't care about any kind of real story. They wanted to get rid of the marriage, come hell or high-water. And OMIT was an even worse abomination to storytelling.

Ugh... Is this crap what constitutes professional work?

[SUPERECWFAN1]

This is the real reason OMD is a trainwreck of epic proportions that is still being talked about even now. They didn't care about any kind of real story. They wanted to get rid of the marriage, come hell or high-water. And OMIT was an even worse abomination to storytelling.

Ugh... Is this crap what constitutes professional work?

I am glad I skipped out on OMIT beyond the 1st issue. I felt for the editor being handed that mess really. I did pick up 673 , 675-677 for 25 cents an issue at a store closing and was shocked at the latest , funniest revamp.

Doctor Strange is now being credited as the one who wiped everything. Weird ....

[Kevinroc]

I am glad I skipped out on OMIT beyond the 1st issue. I felt for the editor being handed that mess really. I did pick up 673 , 675-677 for 25 cents an issue at a store closing and was shocked at the latest , funniest revamp.

Doctor Strange is now being credited as the one who wiped everything. Weird ....

Trust me when I say this. I think OMIT is even worse than OMD. It's a confusing mess. You can get the themes (that Peter's need to be Spider-Man costs him his relationship with the woman he loves) but the execution is so bad you wonder how anyone didn't say "don't do it like this because this is bad storytelling." "The Night Gwen Stacy Died," this is not.

It's really just a mess. This crap is what constitutes professional work? Ugh...