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| Amazing Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Vol. 1 | 
enlarge | Authors: Dan Slott, Marc Guggenheim Creators: Steve Mcniven, Salvador Larroca, Phil Jimenez Publisher: Marvel Comics Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating: 10 reviews Sales Rank: 299589
Media: Hardcover Reading Level: Young Adult Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 200 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4 Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 7 x 0.5
ISBN: 0785128433 Dewey Decimal Number: 741 EAN: 9780785128434 ASIN: 0785128433
Publication Date: June 18, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Condition: BRAND NEW!! GREAT CONDITION!! NEVER READ!! STRAIGHT FROM OUR RETAIL COMICS STORE!! IN STORE NOW!! B13
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Product Description This is it, Arachnophiles! The most pulse-pounding piece of four color fiction to be delivered unto the Mighty Marvel Minions in decades! You asked for more Spidey! You demanded it! And, by Buckley, you're gonna get it! Same Old Power. Same Old Responsibility. Brand New Day! After the devastatingly heartwarming events of One More Day, Peter Parker puts the past behind him and sets forth on a Brand New Day! Spidey's new status quo gets a swift punch in the gut as Dan Slott (She-Hulk; Avengers: The Initiative) and super-star artist Steve McNiven (Civil War) hit the ground running with new villains, new friends, and some familiar faces that promise to make Peter's life messier than ever before. This is where it's all happening! Collects Amazing Spider-Man #546-551; Marvel Spotlight: Spider-Man - Brand New Day and Free Comic Book Day Spider-Man.
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BRAND NEW DAY IS JUST PLAIN AWFUL! June 23, 2008 13 out of 16 found this review helpful
Brand New Day is a great example of the worst that comics have to offer long time readers. This TPB presents that first storyline in a retcon that has removed 20+ years of Amazing Spider-Man history.
The title is Brand New Day...but there's really nothing NEW about it. The reading is painful and reeks of "forced nostalgia". There's probably more character growth in an issue of ARCHIE than in this entire collection.
While the artwork is passable to decent, if you're looking for a fun read...avoid this at all costs.
Instead of reading this lousy TPB, pick up some of Marvel's ESSENTIAL AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. These classic reprints of 60's-70's-80's stories show a character with morals and who understands that "with great power comes great responsibility"...plus the stories were done right the first time and we didn't need a Brand New Day to recycle them.
Don't Bother June 13, 2008 6 out of 10 found this review helpful
While not horrible, the new direction that Marvel has taken Spider-man is ridiculous. The whole point of the Ultimate universe was to give a reboot for new fans and update the comics for a more "modern day" origin story. Given that they have the Ultimate universe, it is hard to see why Marvel felt it necessary to reboot Spider-man in such a horrible fashion. With the Other it seemed like they were finally giving some much needed depth to the character after the whole clone saga debaucle, but here the powers that be seem to feel that they did not want a grown up, mature Peter Parker. Rather than deal with the fall out from the Civil war, they have taken a cowards way out and merely transposed our hero into what I can only assume is an alternate universe.
If you're a Spider-man fan, pick up the New Avengers which actually have a decent take on him in the cannon universe. Pass Amazing by until they actually close this story line and bring him back into the fold.
If you're a Spidey fan, you'll love this June 16, 2008 5 out of 9 found this review helpful
While it took some pain to get to this point in Spidey's story, the results in this book are so much fun that, much like childbirth, you forget the bad stuff. Dan Slott was born to write Spider-Man and it shows on every page. Beyond the first two story arcs of Amazing Spider-Man: Brand New Day, you also get Tom Brevoort's "Spider-Man Manifesto" discussing what makes the title tick and how to correct some past mistakes. Dan Slott's very first Spider-Man story (a backup from the 90s) is also in here and fans of Captain Jean DeWolff will love it.
Great stories, bad idea June 13, 2008 4 out of 8 found this review helpful
In Brand New Day, Marvel's assigned great authors and even better illustrators to tell some of the funnest stories yet.
But first, Spider-Man made a deal with the devil to magically change the universe. And I wish I was joking.
BND starts off with Spider-Man living in this "new universe," and uproots everything about spiderman continuity. His past has essentially been erased, which makes this book very unsatisfying despite the stories contained.
Dawn of a new day June 17, 2008 4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Things have changed. With One More Day leaving a bad taste in every comic fan's mouth (regardless of whether you are a Spidey fan or not, the idea of One More Day alone will coax a groan out of you), Marvel embarks on a new direction with one of their flagship titles. With Brand New Day, we get a re-booted Spider-Man in what seems to be a self-contained universe where things have noticably changed. Peter Parker is younger and a photographer yet again, and Harry Osborne is back as well. Mary Jane may be gone (although there are shots aplenty of red-headed girls in many of the frames contained in this hardcover collection), but Spidey still has plenty of problems to deal with; including a new, psychotic villain called Jackpot. Brand New Day would otherwise be a disaster were it not for the revolving writing team of Dan Slott (She-Hulk, Avengers: The Initiative) and Marc Guggenheim (Wolverine, Blade, The Flash) who manage to make Spidey the most likeable he's been in years. Add to this some fantastic artwork from Steve McNiven (Civil War), Phil Jimenez (Infinite Crisis), and Salvador Larroca (X-Men); and you get something really special here. No matter what damage One More Day may have done, Brand New Day is nevertheless enjoyable for what it is, and the spectacular artwork featured here is worth the price of admission alone.
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