Y'know - I don't think ONE MORE DAY is written or illustrated particularly brilliantly. It's okay. For example, I really liked the future Parker's, even though I got annoyed that they spent two pages 'explaining' it. Really, all they needed was a line or two, not two pages.
But the idea of the storyline - I'm all for it.
Let's bypass the part of me that just thinks it's wrong to stick magic, Dr Strange, Mephisto and the rest into the world of SPIDER-MAN, the fundamental idea of the comic is: Spider-Man has to pick to save either Mary Jane or Aunt May. If he picks one, he loses the other (granted, MJ may not be 'dead', but she won't be in his life anymore).
There's some stupidity here: I don't see the need for Mephisto when all you really need is Green Goblin holding them in his hands, holding them over a bridge, and drops them both. Spidey can save only one. (Yes, it's been done before, I'm just making a point here that you don't need magic to create this situation). There's no need for the "you won't remember" bit (or retconning as it were).
But fundamentally - this comic has a really superb emotional core to it: MJ or Aunt May. It's a brilliant idea - because giving Spidey the OPTION to save Aunt May (through Mephisto) increases the emotional pain of guilt he's already feeling. Yes, it's his 'fault' Aunt May was in the firing line: but now, he can choose to kill her or save her. It's the correct emotional place to go.
I'm really impressed by that moment of crisis, and support it fully.
While I'm upset with the fact that it seems obvious that the marriage will go and Aunt May will be fine and as a result, "This will never have happened" (since they won't remember it), I don't really care. Yes - as part of the mega-continuity that is Spider-Man comics, this is rather... unwise, I can't help but feel that as a single story, it's very powerful.
So much so, that if I put myself in Spidey's shoes, I honestly don't know what to do. I can't vote.
Great stuff, Marvel.
I'll vote the Bass option anyway as it is, "Get them both! Yay!"