Amazing Spider-Man One More Day covers with my caption

Since One More Day and the issue of Marriage is an important issue. I can’t help but think about it again.

I recently saw the movie Fireproof DVD (click this link to read about the DVD), and it was quite good. But if you do not like to see religion in movies or ones with good morals, you won’t like this movie. It provides some good laughs, deals with marriage problems, and no profanity. Mainstream films don’t know how to make movies like this anymore.

One of the themes of Fireproof is about the bonds of marriage and how it is sacred.

And I was thinking in comic book terms how basically Peter Parker dammed his eternal soul to hell by making a pact with a demon. Any pact with such an entity will have consequences on your soul. Especially if you made the pact of your own free will and it was your choice.

I was thinking about a 3 part comic book saga, with a story about 8 pages each.

Since I can’t draw, plus I can’t legally make stories about the character, this is the plot I would have wrote.

Issue 1, The Legacy of Peter Parker’s Deal with a demon
Takes place after Peter Parker / Spider-Man has already died. His soul is in hell.

He is being tortured and the devil, or Mephisto in this case is laughing at Peter. As the past is played about him, Peter wonders why he is in hell after all the good he has done?

The demon laughs at a chained Peter Parker and mentions the deal that was made. How Peter Parker and also Mary Jane made a deal with him. A contract that Peter choose of his own free will.

As Peter inquires about Mary Jane, Mephisto says she is in hell also. Then flashes an image where both can see each other chained. They look at and call for each other, but Mephisto let’s the image fade saying that is the last time they’ll ever see each other again.

She is in hell because she also took part in the deal. But being an ordinary woman, she was no challenge and easy to tempt. He turns to Peter and say’s it’s his soul that interests him and was the prize to catch. The soul of a Hero. To corrupt someone of noble stature and to make him fall from grace is always a prize in hell.

Peter wonders about Aunt May. Mephisto says with dissatisfaction, she is one that has escaped us. You’ll never see her again because she went to the good place.

Then the demon shows Peter a vision of a timeline that would have happened had Peter rejected his deal. Aunt May would have died but gone on to the good place. His exposed secret identity would have eventually been covered up again by other means. As Spider-Man, Peter would have accomplished more good. Then raised a family with Mary Jane, and their children would grow to be heroes and have grandchildren who would also be heroes.

By making a deal with a demon, Peter Parker erased that probability and the generations of heroes that would have been. All the good and the lives they would have saved, now they never happened.

Peter upon realizing this, his pact that he made, and his soul in hell cries and yells in pain upon hearing this as he is tortured. Mephisto laughs and says how Peter’s cries of pain are like music to his ears, and to the ears of his master. This being the biblical devil of which he is but a servant. Mephisto never would have believed the day would arrive when Spider-Man was his.

The End

Issue 2, Can the Silver Surfer save Spider-Man ?
This plays on the notion that the Surfer has always been a noble Christ like figure that Mephisto could not corrupt in past encounters. And how the Surfer with Adam Warlock ventured to hell to rescue the soul of Shalla-Bal.

The Surfer goes to hell to try and rescue Peter’s soul. But Mephisto stops the Surfer and shows him the past and the pact made with the demon. How Peter of his own free will made the choice. And that the Surfer has no power over this bond and the consequences of Peter’s actions.

The Surfer is about to leave in defeat when Mephisto says he’ll release Peter’s soul if the Surfer will agree to take his place? The Surfer says it’s a trick. If he exchanged his soul for Peter’s then he in fact would then be making a pact with the devil and both their souls would be trapped. The Surfer because he would have made a deal. And a demon can never be trusted to keep his word on a contract. The original contract between Peter and Mephisto would still be in place, and how the Surfer’s actions cannot change that. Mephisto says well played and laughs. He mentions how the Surfer’s soul has always been noble.

Mephisto then says how corrupting most men’s souls is very easy. Most men fall for the vices of ego, money, power, sex, addiction. They are easy prey and of little challenge or sport. But to get the soul of someone noble, to corrupt a hero. Well that is worthy of his attention, and always a valuable prize in hell.

In the last panel Mephisto laughs and says, Spider-Man’s soul is his for eternity. The last panel is Peter Parker on his knees, his wrists chained, his chest out and head back screaming in pain. Above him, Peter’s shadow mimicking his pose with his wrists chained is the image of Spider-Man echoing that scream of pain.

The End

Issue 3, The Watcher’s Vision of Spider-Man’s Deal
This issue starts with the Watcher telling us the audience, how their are parallel worlds and dimensions. That the Peter Parker / Spider-Man you know was the only parallel world that took Mephisto up on his offer.

The Watcher then shows us other worlds, the ones where Peter Parker rejected the demon and the consequences of those actions. How Aunt May died, but Peter Parker matured into a stronger individual. The Watcher tells us about the laws of nature and life. And how the Peter Parker we saw can serve as a reminder of our consequences. And how our actions effect not only us, but those around us.

Had that Peter Parker not made a deal, he would have been like all the others in the parallel worlds.

Such as people who met because when his identity was exposed they talked about Peter Parker being Spider-Man. These people now did not meet if Peter’s exposed identity never happened. And their children now never happened.

How people who would have been rescued by Peter’s children now died because he had no children.

His family and their legacy would have changed the world for the better. By not letting natural law take place, he not only dammed his soul. Peter Parker’s actions effected other countless lives.

Finally the Watcher tells us that for the Peter Parker who made a deal, their is no longer any hope for him. But luckily he was the only one in the countless parallel worlds to suffer such a fate. The Peter Parker / Spider-Man of the other worlds rejected the deal and lived good lives, their souls going to Heaven.

Learn from the mistakes of the one Peter Parker who suffered a deal with a demon and realize no good will ever be accomplished by making a deal with such an entity. And to learn the lesson that marriage is a sacred covenant “What therefore God has joined together, let no one put asunder”.

The End

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