Amazing Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Vol. 1 [Hardcover]

Dan Slott (Author), Marc Guggenheim (Author), Steve McNiven (Illustrator), Salvador Larroca (Illustrator), Phil Jimenez (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 4, 2008 | Grade Level: 4 and up

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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 200 pages
• Publisher: Marvel (June 4, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785128433
• ISBN-13: 978-0785128434
• Product Dimensions: 1 x 1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #892,621 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars BRAND NEW DAY IS JUST PLAIN AWFUL!, June 22, 2008

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M. Grant "MacGyver of the Books" (Detroit, Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Amazing Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Vol. 1 (Hardcover)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Old spidey's back, good or bad?, March 20, 2010

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James Cunliffe (Marysville, Wa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Amazing Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Vol. 1 (Hardcover)

This book is a perfect place to start if your just starting, or haven't followed the series for the last 10 yrs or so.
But for spidey fans like me who have been faithful to the books, and read through the good and the bad stories without doubt that there is a deeper meaning behind it that well get reveiled later on. All of a sudden it all makes since, and we go back to the bad arc and find all the hidden details and find out the story wasn't as bad as you originally thought.
Until "One More Day".
Don't get me wrong it wasn't god awful like most people might say or review, and I throughly enjoyed J. Michael Straczynski story line from start to finish (Coming Home - One More Day #30-545) It just pissed me off to the point where I swore to never support another spidey book after "OMD" again. If you like to read my opinions on "OMD" how it should have ended and continued into this book read my review on "One More Day".
It is a revamped of all the spider-man books over the last 20 some odd yrs Peter is back working at the Daily Bugle as a photographer (never became a Teacher). No longer married to Mary Jane. Harry Osborn alive and has been Peters best buddy the whole time. Everyones forgotten who spider-man is, and among other things.
Over all, I have read into some of the issues in the "Brand New Day" storyarc. It is pretty good and worth reading, but would have otherwise been better on its own away from the events of the marvel universe.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Brand New Day means brand new thrills!, February 17, 2009

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S. Penrose (Small Town, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Amazing Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Vol. 1 (Hardcover)

Without getting into what lead to the events of Brand New Day, this trade, on its own is really good Spidey stuff. Plain and simple. The writers and artists involed truely hit the nail on the head as to what Spidey should be about. I really enjoyed it. I also really appreciated the extra material that shed a ton of light that went into this new world of Spidey. I look forward to reading the next volume of Brand New Day.