This is the last chapter of the One More Day story-line. And it is . . . simply fantastic. Basically, everything that's been done in the last year or so . . . actually, all the way back to Peter and MJ's wedding . . . is undone. Mephisto has offered Peter a chance for Aunt May to come back, but, in order to do so, he has to relinquish his other love . . . MJ. His reward is that he'll hear the suffering of both of their souls as they live out the rest of their lives knowing what they've forsaken. Consciously they won't know. But a piece of their soul will. But before the deed is done, MJ asks that Peter's "outing" also be forgotten. She offers up something to Mephisto for the favor, but we don't really know what that is . . . as she whispers it in his ear. She didn't want Peter to know. And to pour salt in the wound, Mephisto tells them that the "possibilities" that he was shown last chapter also involved a young female guide. He wants to know why Peter never questioned who that was? He was trying to hurt him even more, because the girl was the daughter, that now . . . they'll never have. The daughter that would be the best of both of them. And with that . . . things are changed. Peter wakes up the next morning in his bed, in Aunt May's house, as he smells her cooking breakfast. But he's in a hurry to go to a party that he and Flash had planned because today . . Norman is coming home. This was the final story in the 8 year run of writer J Michael Straczynski. And he really finished it off with a bang. Also Joe Quesada did the pencils for this issue, as he has for all 4 chapters of this story. The whole issue, really, is fantastic. And we all bid a fond farewell to Joe. But now, we start our 3-a-month Amazing Spider-man series. This should prove interesting. At all times, keep your arms inside the ride. And . . away we go . . . .
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