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It was announced last night, not an April Fool, that Spider-Man: Brand New Day would be the name of the new Spider-Man film starring Tom Holland out next year And eBay noticed. Spider-Man: Brand New Day is also the title of the Spider-Man run that was published directly after the infamous Spider-Man: One More Day storyline[...]

Will Kindred be the original soul of Harry Osborn, rotting in hell since then, and never actually revived for Brand New Day? And will we see Peter and Mary's Schrödinger's Daughter again? AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #60 MARVEL COMICS DEC200589 (W) Nick Spencer (A/CA) Mark Bagley Peter and Mary Jane have been through so much… Spider-Man has been a constant strain on[...]

Amazing Spider-Man #55 Last Rites … and the events of One More Day and Brand New Day A Spider-Man who remembers none of it And a Kindred who remembers all of it And underlining the possibility that this is a Harry Osborn who went to hell and the version who appeared in Brand New Day –[...]

As part of the deal, the world's knowledge of Spider-Man being Peter Parker was also removed. This was as a result of Marvel Comics editorial and executives making the decision that Marvel needed a Spider-Man to be closer to other media portrayals of the character, to make him appear younger and to give him other storylines[...]

Is there anything more Gen X than that? It's clear that almost immediately Marvel back pedaled its decision to age Peter up, realizing he was out of synch with the times, but it would be another decade before they ripped that Band-Aid off. It's easy to pinpoint Peter's transition into millennial: the start of the "Brand[...]

Joe Michael Straczynski posted on an open Facebook page, a link to the image above with the words Sales on The Amazing Spider-Man since my departure. Just

While I was disgusted over the decision to end the marriage in the hopes of making Peter more marketable (It is no coincidence that sales plummeted when "Brand New Day" reduced Peter to a pathetic hard-luck loser just as they did when John Byrne had Peter sleeping on the streets), the methodology was so mind-numbingly[...]