Brand New Year Archive

With little warning our build, my look back at Amazing Spider-Man #562-563 marks the last official entry in the “Brand New Day” retrospective I’ve been running since early January. I know after this arc there’s technically one more issue with the words “Brand New Day” on the front cover,

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I guess it’s somewhat odd of me to identify any individual arc from a status quo upheaval as polarizing as “Brand New Day” as being controversial in its own right, but I do believe the “Peter Parker Paparazzi” storyline as featured in Amazing Spider-Man #559-561 (written by Dan Slott

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I’m still getting a fair bit of pushback from some of you after praising the first few arcs of the controversial “Brand New Day” era of Amazing Spider-Man. So much so that I’m starting to think this retrospective series I’m doing has evolved more into “the case for ‘Brand

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Any of my Northeast readers dealing with this unbearable cold and relentless snow the past few weeks will probably cringe a bit when they see how in my sequential retrospective of “Brand New Day” I’ve hit upon this three-part arc by Zeb Wells and Chris Bachalo that deals with

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After a two week hiatus brought upon by a deluge of new books sandwiched between an installment of my “Clone Saga Callback” feature and a new edition of the Super Blog Team-Up, I finally have the time and brain space to march onward with my “Brand New Day” era

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One of the things I keyed in on during my write-up of the first arc of “Brand New Day” was how the storyline was brimming with youthful energy. While the arc that led us to the doorstep of “Brand New Day” (“One More Day”) was extraordinarily controversial and ill-conceived/executed,

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The new year has long been a time for new beginnings and resolutions. So with that in mind, I thought I would kick off 2015 with a serial lookback at one of the most controversial and dramatic new beginnings in Spider-Man history: “Brand New Day.” Unless you’re someone who

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In addition to completely upending the Amazing Spider-Man status quo by mystically dissolving the marriage of Peter Parker and Mary Jane, what I think I best remember the “Brand New Day” era of Spider-Man for was the number of new villains introduced by the rotating team of Spidey scribes. It

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