An open letter to Joe Quesada, he who killed Spiderman

An open letter to Joe Quesada, Editor in Chief at Marvel comics and apparently the brain child behind the recent destruction of one of the most beloved Marvel characters of all time; Spiderman.

Dear Mr. Quesada,

With all due respect to you in your achievement in becoming Editor in Chief, I must say, you have destroyed - utterly and wholly - a favorite character of mine and of countless others. What you have done with Spiderman: One More Day & A Brand New Day is shameful and unforgivable.

The Marvel Universe has had its share of horrible story lines. Cable & Bishop, anyone? It has seen countless reboots and re-imagined stories. It has seen shifting time lines and often poorly-handled "freshening" of character back stories. But never have I seen such ridiculous changes as we now are forced to endure in Spiderman.

Is it not bad enough that we need to follow three...? four...? different titles in order to get the whole Spidey story? Is it not bad enough that so many stupid and extraneous, often confusing and ultimately empty story arcs have been forced upon us (Ben Parker...?)? And now you want to go and destroy this character and throw him back to his own private stone age? Having May and MJ being part of the whole Spiderman world was a good thing. It gave the characters, Spiderman *and* Peter Parker, a certain real-world anchor of credibility. Spiderman, the title, has always been about Peter Parker more than it could ever be about the costume, and expanding Peter's life to include those closest to him was a wonderful thing.

You have taken away some of that which made him a favorite. You have unwound two decades of story telling. You have rebooted Spiderman, but in a most foolish and silly way.

Nice job. I can only hope that at some point in the very near future, Peter wakes to learn that this has all been a horrible dream and you, sir, are left without gainful employment in the entertainment industry. You putz.

So, Mr. Quesada, I say only this...