Why I've stopped reading Spider-Man

When even the writer says ‘There’s a lot that I don’t agree with’ in the editorially mandated story for One More Day. [Link with spoilers]

I’ll be honest: there was a point where I made the decision, and told Joe, that I was going to take my name off the last two issues of the OMD arc. Eventually Joe talked me out of that decision because at the end of the day, I don’t want to sabotage Joe or Marvel, and I have a lot of respect for both of those. As an executive producer as well as a writer, I’ve sometimes had to insist that my writers make changes that they did not want to make, often loudly so. They were sure I was wrong. Mostly I was right. Sometimes I was wrong. But whoever sits in the editor’s chair, or the executive producer’s chair, wears the pointy hat of authority, and as Dave Sim once noted, you can’t argue with a pointy hat.

I think this is part of a trend by the 30 & 40sometings who run comics now to return the comics status quo to 'their' nostalgic vision of what made comics great.