Ongoing Spider-Man retcon events continue making waves around comics fandom. As EIC Joe Quesada realized a 20 some odd year ambition to roll back the clock on Peter Parker's marriage to Mary Jane Watson in One More Day, the storyline was met with staunch criticism for not having convincingly navigated the attempted erasure of the marriage from Marvel history. Now with the follow up, Brand New Day, rolling out, featuring a free and single Spider-Man, a certain buzz around comics fandom is re-focusing on the role Mephisto played in the "divorcing" of our friendly neighborhood love birds.

Rich Johnston, in his New Year's Resolution at Lying in the Gutters, last week, opined on this and other Marvel Comics adventures:

1. Stop buying Marvel Comics. Subscribe to Marvel DCU in six months time. Start reading (all their titles) again then. Live with whatever spoilers get forced upon me. Save money and space.

But that was last week. Meantime, towards week's end, Rich sent out a satire 2 page script to some friends, that I also received. It was a good gag, rather funny and somewhat poignant in its implications for Mephisto, widely known as the reigning Satan of the Marvel universe. Funny and clever enough, I thought, that it cried to be realized into illustrated comics pages.

So, I spent part of last weekend realizing this newfound ambition.

I then emailed the two pages to Rich who seemed to like the result.

You insane man!!!!!!

So much so, in fact, that the two pages are the lead item in this week's installment of LITG. Brand New Art.

Along with a hearty recommendation for the fast, quality, underused and under appreciated artist who produced them.

Someone could make a lot of money with him on their books.

I must say I have been thinking the same thing of late.