Amazing Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Vol. 2 (v. 2) [Hardcover]

Bob Gale (Author), Zeb Wells (Author), Phil Jimenez (Illustrator), Chris Bachalo (Illustrator)

Book Description

Grade Level: 4 and up

Spider-Man's Brand New Day continues, with more all-new adventures. Two new creative teams join the fray as writers Bob Gale (the Back to the Future trilogy) and Zeb Wells (Heroes for Hire) rock Spidey's world along with new artists Phil Jimenez (New X-Men) and Chris Bachalo (X-Men). Peter confronts major changes at the Daily Bugle while New York is under siege by a blizzard, and a new villain, Freak, rampages through town. If he hopes to stand a chance against this new threat, Spider-Man is going to have to enlist the help of his New Avengers teammates as well as the mysterious all-new adventurer Jackpot! Amazing Spider-Man #552-558.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 168 pages
• Publisher: Marvel (July 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785128441
• ISBN-13: 978-0785128441
• Product Dimensions: 1 x 1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #280,295 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars This new day gets a little stale, but still entertaining, July 18, 2008

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N. Durham "Big Evil" (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Amazing Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Vol. 2 (v. 2) (Hardcover)

Since the One More Day debacle, Amazing Spider-Man has undergone a faster shipping schedule thanks to having a revolving team of writers and artists. Here, Spidey is up to his usual troubles, with a new villain called Freak being at the epicenter. Volume two of Brand New Day also marks the debuts of writers Bob Gale and Zeb Wells to the Brand New Day team, each of which make up what is great about this volume, and what is just plain bad. Gale provides some atrocious dialogue and corny captions, while Wells provides some spetacular Spidey action that is instantly enjoyable. The absolute best part of this second volume of Brand New Day however is the same thing that made the first volume so good: the artwork. Phil Jimenez (New X-Men, Infinite Crisis) provides great work, and even more surprisingly does Chris Bachalo (X-Men), whose work I don't usually admire, but whose style more than suits the title. Barry Kitson (The Order) provides solid art as well as the volume comes to a close, which once again finds Gale marring things up. Besides Gale's disappointing contributions, it should be noted that Freak may very well be one of the worst villains to ever cross paths with Spidey. There just isn't anything original or compelling with the villain, and he only fails even more so in Gale's hands. Still, Zeb Wells manages to weave some great Spidey material, and the artwork is spectacular to boot. All in all, the good barely outweighs the bad here, but the second volume of Brand New Day is still an enjoyable and entertaining Spidey romp, and one can only hope that things will get better and more consistent from this point forward.

1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible writing, September 15, 2010

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G. Hoffman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Amazing Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Vol. 2 (v. 2) (Hardcover)

Are they writing this for six year olds?

The art is fantastic, and the concepts behind the new villians are good. The writing is just plain bad. The dialog is unreadable, with no sense of character. Aunt May doesn't sound like Aunt May. Peter doesn't sound like Peter. Every character is oddly compelled to recap their motivations at least once a page. My seventh grade English teacher would have flunked me for turning in writing this bad.

The writing on other titles has been so strong for so long that it makes this book's awfulness stand out even more.

Way back in the day, Marvel had a Spider-man title for young readers and a different set of titles for older readers. When I started reading this turkey, I thought they had gone back to the old scheme. Marvel needs to stick with better writers for one of their flagship characters - Spider-man deserves better.

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing second chapter!, March 21, 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. 2 (v. 2) (Hardcover)

I really enjoyed the opening volume of Brand New Day, so I was really disappointed that this collecton fell so flat. The most interesting villains, Menance and Mister Negative, are afterthoughts to hokier villains like the Freak and Bachalo's Mayan whatevers. Plus Bachalo's art is so out of place when next to his peers. Overall, a bummer.