Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-11276487-20131125022524/@comment-61022-20131228182010

For those who were providing my counter arguments for the whole Peter tragedy thing... You forgot the main point I was getting at: New readers.

Marvel already has you lock stock and barrel. They don't rehash or create new tragedy for the sake of long time readers. They already have your money. It's luring new readers to the title.

That was the whole point of Brand New Day. Yes to people who have been reading Spider-Man for any period of time see that as a regression of Peter to a "manchild" (which, outside of the first Brand New Day arc, this is not the case if you actually read it and stop being a reactionary complainer) but remember, new readers DID NOT read Spider-Man prior to his marriage to Mary Jane, the liklihood of them going back and reading that material? Even less likely.

And for each and every one of you who complain that it is redundant and repetitive, please go back and read your comic collection. I've been reading Marvel books for just about 30 years and I've read a good 70 years worth of continuity. It always regresses, retcons and backtracks going back to the "status quo". What do you expect?

Go back and watch any long running series of anything. Movies, books, comics, television shows. Either the stories end how they started or they follow a formula where things can go back to a status quo.

I think the irony here is that when Marvel does a 10 year anniversary of Superior Spider-Man and pumps out special edition TPBs and revisits it in whatever Spider-title, you're all going to rave about how great this series was, just like when they decided to bring back all the Clone Saga stuff (Everyone who reads and likes Scarlet Spider, I rest my case).