Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4548390-20170306230733/@comment-4651179-20170704104541

I think the process was meant to be fatal in the original story. But when he translated the Regent to 616, Slott decided it wasn't for obvious reasons.

Then when Conway was given the reins of RNY, he decided to retcon it so Spider-Man wasn't one of the handful of surviving heroes. The same way he decided to drop all the near-future aesthetic the original miniseries was aiming for in New York's landscape.