Honestly, everything from that era not written by Waid or Kelly was trash. Even Slott didn't really pick up the quality until he took over full time.
Honestly, everything from that era not written by Waid or Kelly was trash. Even Slott didn't really pick up the quality until he took over full time.
Cyclops was right
Opinions vary.
I think the team of writers of Brand New Day were awesome and gave a fast pacing tone to the stries and variety provided by diferent writers.
Sure there were some sub plots that took some time to be resolved due the writers rotating in the team,but even that was not a issue to me because Amazing Spider-Man was being published three times a month.
Bob Gale stories were not as good as Dan Slott stories or Joe Kelly but even if Gale stories were not as memorable as the other writers the stories were still a fun read and in the spirit of the Brand New Day tone in the stories.And i think the reason why Gale stories were not as good as the other writers is because he did not had so much experience writing stories as the others,even so they were entertaining.
Dan Slott stories right from the first story arc in BND that have the first apearence of Mister Negative have been always sound.I think the only story of Dan Slott that did not impressed me much was the Molten Man story arc in BND.
Marc Guggenheim stories wrote the most sophisticated stories of BND,with the plots being quite intriguing.
Zeb Wells wrote just a couple of stories but the ones he wrote were great.(See the sometimes snow in April story arc)
It's kind of interesting for all of people complaints against Mr. Slott many of which are valid he actually pitched the return of the marriage in 2015 but got repeatedly shot down.
"Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he
"The rules of regeneration are known!"
"Sorry, what did you say? Did you mention the rules? Now, listen. A bit of advice: tell me the truth if you think you know it,
lay down the law if you're feeling brave, but never ever tell me the rules!!"
It's trolling. Dan (and Spidey editorial in general) have been doing it for years.
And I suppose it's a little marketing too, albeit in an unpleasant way. It's dangling the carrot for those that still hold out hope and who might still be buying the book because of that hope. It's never gonna happen under the current regime, but they're happy to occasionally let you think that it might.
"The rules of regeneration are known!"
"Sorry, what did you say? Did you mention the rules? Now, listen. A bit of advice: tell me the truth if you think you know it,
lay down the law if you're feeling brave, but never ever tell me the rules!!"
That's true, but still, there was a time where callbacks to OMD weren't a priority at all and they were content to just let an uber-niche thing like the daily strip promote the marriage. Post-Secret Wars, we've had more of marketing push for Peter/MJ variant covers, an AU title featuring them together, video games where she is a major player. The only other medium that doesn't really bother with her all that much is the animated shows
Hope moves the needle.
My source is TV Tropes and Idioms and I can assure that place has very accurate information. Dan Slott's rejected return of the marriage was listed among several possible stories in the website's What Could Have Been category. It also included the original One More Day proposal where Gwen would never have died and Mary Jane and Harry would have stayed together so effectively, Peter and Mary Jane would never have married. A slightly better outcome than than Brand New Day and One Moment in Time.
"Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he
Yeah but it will draw considerable ire towards Marvel either way. And with how Dan Slott wrote Peter and Mary Jane in Renew Your Vows kind of makes me wish he was the one writing the comic because the later writers are regressing Peter like crazy. It also sort of serves as proof of his own pitch to return the marriage.
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"Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he