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What have you been doing all this time?Ĭue splash page of Spider-Man's rogues gallery, heavy on the animal totems and green jumpsuits. And then what? Not a single paper published.

First place in the regional science fair four years running. Peter Parker, the child prodigy from Midtown High. As Peter searches for a steady job, we get humor from one interview with, 'It's like you left your camera on a ledge and walked away or something.' Then we get the daring exactitude of a creator hellbent on challenging himself and his readers someone says: 'I remember you. What Slott does best is think through to the end of every idea, with the flair of a novelist, and someone who loves the character they're writing. As McNiven's air-brushed art shows Peter kissing a club-rat on the first page, our hero says, 'I mean, you start the story here and it totally gives you the wrong impression.

But 'Brand New Day' opens by reaffirming that Parker is as Parker does he's a barely employed nerd, unmarried and under Aunt May's roof, with a jolly complaint on every breath. The freewheeling tone they establish tightly updates the Stan Lee approach of using the entire stove-top to simmer three subplots while a main story cooks (which Slott mastered during his heartfelt run on She-Hulk). Peter Parker, wall-crawler extraordinaire, had woken to a Brand New Day.ĪSM 546-548 is the first (and possibly best) jolt, delivered by writer Dan Slott and artist Steve McNiven. Gone was the malicious darkness of the super-human civil war, pitting every hero with a brain against the fascist Iron Man. In 2007, Amazing Spider-Man became a thrice-monthly showcase of sparkling renovation. Fan response turned 52 into a cash cow to be milked, cloned, and eventually stolen by those rapscallions at Marvel. Well, my circle of readers wasn't unique. Taste-makers like Brian Bendis wrote for the eventual trade paperback collection, decompressing many stories to death and subverting basic conventions such as talking while fighting. It was the experimental opposite of how best-selling comics had been produced for most of the decade. And not just an imbalanced sliver that was either all talk or all action- every issue of 52 had juice, cleverness and momentum.

One week passed, and you got a fresh dose. Thrillingly, each week became a different kind of payoff, and my friends and I peppered each other with, 'THIS is how I want to read all my comics.'

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The series instead featured a hundred-strong cast, with characters rotating in and out of the spotlight as various plots rose, fell and converged. They began a year-long weekly series called 52 that required the combined drive of its best talents (Grant Morrison, Mark Waid, Keith Giffen and Joe Bennett among them), and did not include Superman, Batman or Wonder Woman. In May of 2006, publishing titan DC took a major gamble.

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