Marvel Disappoints Yet Again, Kicks Off New ASM with Repeat Of Brand New Day’

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Marvel Disappoints Yet Again, Kicks Off New ASM with Repeat Of Brand New Day’

In yet further proof that nobody hates Peter Parker more than Marvel Comics, the first issue of the core Amazing Spider-Man series’ newest volume begins not with the exploration of “bold new horizons” as previously promised, but rather a near identical retread of the opening scene of the hero’s Brand New Day era.

Featuring words by Spider-Man/Deadpool Vol. 1 writer Joe Kelly and art from Blood Hunt Vol. 1 line art/colorist duo Pepe Larraz and Marte Garcia, the debut issue of Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 7 finds the wall-crawler yet again unemployed, down on his luck, and struggling to make ends meet thanks to the ever-present demands of his superhero responsibilities.

To this end, realizing that he needs to change his circumstances, Peter hits the streets and manages to arrange a number of job interviews, all of which happen to be in-person.

Unfortunately for Peter, rather than any level of success, his conversations meetings all play out in generally the same way: After receiving praise for his qualifications, he is then pressed as to his spotty work history. Following a a brief ‘internal cutaway’ to his super-heroics, Peter ultimately fails to give a satisfactory explanation for his less-than-stellar resumé, which ultimately leads to him being rejected and ending the day still jobless.

And if that sounds familiar, dear reader, this is not just because this opening set-up is essentially the same ‘Peter struggles to juggle his personal and Spider-life’ one that Marvel Comics always defaults to whenever they relaunch, reboot, or reimagine him.

It’s also because this is almost a shot-for-shot retread of a scene that played out 17-years earlier in Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1 #546 – otherwise known as the very first issue of the hero’s post ‘selling his marriage to Mephisto’ life.

tl;dr

LCS and retailers will still order them even if no one buys them. They enable the production of bad comics because they care more about quantity than quality

Coming to readers from then-new series writer Dan Slott, penciller Steve McNiven, inker Dexter Vines, and colorist Morry Hollowell, the issue first finds Peter waking up in his childhood bedroom at Aunt May’s house, his stay necessitated by the fact that he has neither the savings nor the ‘current employment status’ to afford his own place.

Aware that his current situation is “just sad”, Peter spends the morning scouring the ‘Classifieds’ section of The Daily Bugle and proceeding to schedule same-day interviews for three positions that speak to his specific skill sets: A high school science teacher, a fashion photographer, and a research assistant at an advanced technology lab

Unfortunately for Peter, not only does his flaky and unprofessional reputation proceed him, but when faced with the observation that he has not done any notable science work since his time in high school and the subsequent question of “What have you been doing all this time?”, he not only finds himself briefly reflecting on his history as Spider-Man, but is also only able to explain his time in the tights away as “You know…this and that…”

In the interest of fairness, it should be noted that due to the ‘ever-ongoing’ nature of the Western industry’s approach to comics, most superhero books, especially those from the ‘Big Two’, are prone to occasionally stepping on the toes or even outright retreading old stories, characters, and interactions.

However, unlike in Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 7 #1, said retreading is usually not this blatant, with most instances usually being different enough thanks to occurring at different time periods or during different events than the original.

Now, this is all not to say that Kelly directly plagiarized Slott’s work; far from it, as Kelly’s writing history proves he’s more than capable of doing his own writing.

I know Kelly has been around for a long time but I honestly don't think people at Marvel even know how to write comic books any more. It was disjointed, unfocused and didn't tell a story. It was just constant bits and pieces that felt more like it was written for television.

All he seems to have going for him is Spider-Man. At this point even I’m desperate to escape this facile, infantile nonsense with Peter Parker so Spider-Man can have some depth and emotional maturity with Rhino or Hobgoblin. Spider-Man desperately giving CPR to Rhino felt meaningful with real emotional depth and pathos, and Peter’s interactions with Shay about how they’re not exclusive anymore “so sleep around as you please” felt meaningless and cringe. It seems that Spider-Man is the only meaningful release he has from an utterly tedious, pointless life as Peter Parker now.

In the right hands that could be interesting, and an impetus to change and rebuild some connection with Peter Parker again. But Kelly seems to be just as desperate to escape from Peter as we are. All his moments as Peter Parker are tedious, cringy, and humiliating, and it seems like they want us to feel relieved when he puts on the costume again.

It showed up in Eight Deaths too. Peter Parker is a vestigial, empty thing. All he ever did *as Peter* during the arc was mope, sit around, and pity himself. It feels like to them, he’s only interesting when he has the costume on.

Ultimate Peter feels like the same character, regardless of whether he has the suit on or off, and I think that’s better. But there’s a massive disconnect between 616 Peter Parker and Spider-Man right now, and it’s being treated more as a feature than a bug.

Can people stop buying and discussing this dogshit already? Fuck.

At least Mary Jane is maturing.
Living together with her man and fostering a troubled child like Dylan.
All while earning income as a civilian and being a hero with her partner Venom.

At least Mary Jane is maturing.

Into what as a host for a symbiote for Venom. Ouch that must really hurt fans. And just wait untill you see what they have cooked up for Gwen.

Don't hold your breath. Gotta have my Spider-Man.

Known wifebeater and Ed Piskor murderer Jon Del Arroz continues to shill his stupid fucking substack instead of buying a banner that nobody will read since everyone uses adblockers.

They’re turning her into a Polish child molester and have her marrying Paul?!?!

This place is so dead now that people just copy paste shitty substack articles to shill them for free.

I think it’s time to accept that Marvel will no longer have growth for Peter. He must remain invalid.

I think that marvel hates spider-fags rather than spider-man

Just read Ultimate, everyone else does.

I wish Peter was like this.

It's not the same spidey I grew up with and barely resembles Peter.

The term is mutie asshole and this happening for fucking REAL go ask Brevoort yourself this is NOT a shitpost.

My local shop had very few copies and I get there within ten minutes of the doors opening. I don’t think ASM will be number 1 this month by any stretch of the imagination.

You’re dumbass couldn’t figure out that Venom was MJ.
You’re so wrong.

Are you ready to delete Peter from your memories and accept Miles as the one true Spider-Man yet? This can end whenever you decide you've had enough.

No you are wrong this is happening ask brevoort and he will confirm it.

You should have accepted that by the 90s

Used to be

You’re dumbass couldn’t figure out that Venom was MJ.

Are you fucking serious? everyone knew it was MJ from the start expect for you had apparently. The clues were there all along, had you half a brain then you would figured it out also. Now get the fuck off this board you moron,

You’re so wrong.

No I am right Gwen is mutie I am sure
brevoort will confirm it. The recton of her "death" coming straight up.

That shit sucks though, way too many changes for it to be a proper substitute for 616 and it’s just not very good regardless.

The term is mutie asshole

MUTIES ARE ALL CHILD MOLESTERS!? WHOAH

I don’t know Tom Brevoort, we better ask Gwenschizo, he is Tom’s sex slave or something and he usually gives him a few leaks after violently raping him.

We really need to confirm that mutants are actually called muties, and that they’re pedophiles!

Thank you for using a comma in your post Gwenschizo

NO WE POLISH ALWAYS BELIEVED PAUL WAS GOING TO BE VENOM AND WOULD RAPE RESPECT INTO EDDIE BROCK’S SON TURNING DYLAN INTO HIS PERSONAL FEMBOY FAGGOT

THESE INSULTS AGAINST THE POLISH AND THE GWENSCHIZO WILL NOT STAND, PAUL IS A HERO AND YOU DO NOT MAKE FUN OF CHILD MOLESTERS

Paul should get with someone who hasn’t insulted and shamed him like this, I bet Gwen Stacy is available and knows proper Polish values and guess what she’s a mutie now just like Paul so that means they’re going to get married!

ANOTHER wifebeater del arroz thread

I am still not joining your substack

This but also Paul should rape and murder Shay first to punish Peter and restore his honor.

Calling everyone gwenschizo is such a pathetic cope. Like the dweebs who went around calling everyone damianfag and ladderbro and tommy and on and on. Go outside faggot.

Sorry homie, the schizo’s already on a tear in this thread. Do you think I want to waste time telling you niggers apart. I don’t give a fuck.

Anon shut the fuck up and for once listen Gwen Stacy must be a mutie she simply must since she has weapn X ablities. Hell by definition wolverine is a mutant himself despite the fact he was experimented on. By that logic Brevoort confiming Gwen is a mutant would make sense, and it really would be the only explanation which would make real sense. It's time to face facts Gwen Stacy is in fact a mutant end of story.

Yeah and she’s marrying Paul who is also a mutie I heard it from Tom Brevoort

I agree with the Polish child molester’s decision to never read a single X-Men comic!

PAULBROS THIS IS A FULL PAULERT, PAUL IS BEING DISRESPECTED. I REPEAT PAUL IS BEING DISRESPECTED ALL POLISH PEOPLE ALL POLISH PEDOPHILES PLEASE BE INFORMED THIS IS NOT A DRILL

Excuse you, Gwen is not available. She belongs to Norman

She will fuck both, as she is a whore, but in a good way instead of a bad way (MJ and Shay…)

cut the spam and fuckng serious will you.

Her romance with norman is non-canon and shay has never meet Gwen what's more she does know she even exists,

It only happens because the mods allow it since it brings "engagement" and shit.

This is also why they allow an illiterate schizophrenic to run wild.

Any bets on how long Shay sticks around? I refuse to believe that anyone at Marvel actually cares about this character. What does she even have that sets her apart from any other Spidey love interest?

why is he unemployed and poor?
that doesn't make any sense

You know what? If Marvel wants Peter to be relatable, the whole spider-office should also be unemployed

Any bets on how long Shay sticks around?

Probably until the end of this run at least.

I refuse to believe that anyone at Marvel actually cares about this character.

Lowe clearly does.

What does she even have that sets her apart from any other Spidey love interest?

Nothing. My theory given her mystery meat nature is that she's a stand-in for Zendaya's Not-MJ character from the Iron-Boy films so Lowe thinks it's great synergy.

i said that at CBR and they are still rejecting this and claiming that it is another person.

What does she even have that sets her apart from any other Spidey love interest?

She's brownish. That's not unique but not super common among Peter's whores.

You sound retarded

I can’t believe the Polish child rapist is just IGNORING the Paulert. Shameful dereliction of duty. Ewing may as well kill him off!

Might as well have Ewing make Paul join the X-Men after failing to rape Dylan.

That can't be right, I've seen them publish Web Weaver again.

Fairly certain some CBR users are Marvel staff, seen them claim there's no intentional malice coming from Marvel more than once which is absurd.

Hellgate more like HellGAY

What Polish retard cooked this useless nothingburger up?

Someone who loves sucking dick and buys into the narrative that the ancient Greeks were universally boylovers

Marvel thought readers would be distressed over this

Ares is /ourguy/ until further notice.

It’s kind of funny that out of these three losers, it’s the 12(?) year old that’s visibly impaled

This is really weird considering Miles is hanging out with Anansi, who is in a feud with Ares, and we have this Ares looking knockoff coming into ASM.

Also why the fuck is ASM suddenly pretending like we know who Spider-Boy is? Fucking hate that character.

I like Bailey, but if that's the price to pay, well, it's been real kid.

Slott’s little goblin isn’t king for this world now that Dan’s fucking off to DC and his book is ending.

Marvel isnt getting rid of Bailey, but he isn't going nowhere either, so better he off the ASM and Mileshit comics.

The interior art is horrible, it tries to imitate the manga style and fails because that style only works with black and white pages and they completely removed Peter's girlfriends, even the sexy villains, the story is bad, the art is awful and there are no beautiful women, who are they making these comics for?

It makes me glad that making Peter a teen dad to salvage his character is a growing sentiment on this board

Slott’s little goblin

Reminds me, I'm surprised we haven't gotten a Goblinette or something yet. We've already had a shota goblin with Red Goblin.

Has Bailey been mentioned in Zigler's book?
I would doubt it since Zigler con't pointlessly referenced some flavour of the month anime with Spider-boy