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1. neums says:

   November 11, 2010 at 5:00 pm

   Tell us how you really feel.

   This was a great issue, and a great start to what I think is going to be a great storyline.

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2. oopsxlandmine says:

   November 11, 2010 at 6:31 pm

   i agree with neums… how could you not like this issue if you’re a spidey fan? Slott fully developed his spider-man and his peter parker in the first issue. Spidey upstages Stark AND Richards. Peter upstages the think tank. I’m with you on the art. It could be better although its wayyyy better than azaceta (yes i realize that i sound like a broken record). I loved this issue and i’m super excited that things are actually looking up for my all time hero. i even liked the spider-girl short. The art was actually spectacular in that haha.

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3. cubman987 says:

   November 11, 2010 at 10:16 pm

   I have to dissagree completely with this review (well ok, Carlie did look dumb in her roller derby outfit, I’ll give you that), I’m guessing you didn’t read a lot of Spider-man before BND.  I liked BND just fine, but I think they are weeding out some of the things that didn’t work; like Michelle (she serves no purpose moving forward) and Peter not having a job.  If the story is ever going to move forward those things just don’t seem to make much sense anymore.

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4. robbydzwonar says:

   November 12, 2010 at 12:25 am

   The only Spidey I read before BND were the first volume of Essential Spidey from WAY back in the day, and a few trades of Ultimate Spidey.  Brand New Day was the perfect jumping on point for a new reader, and I enjoyed immensley until Gauntlet.  I would drop it and pick it back up through Gauntlet, and then I read the rest of BND from there.  I obviously didn’t like OMIT either, but I’m sure we don’t even have to argue about that.

    I gave this issue three stars and I’m not dropping it YET.  I’m sure that other folks like me who jumped on with BND (not OMD) are probably thinking the same thing.

   I thought having a crazy room mate like Michelle made for some pretty entertaining reading.  She is going to be sorely missed!!   And come on, guys, you have to admit the characters at Parker’s new job are pretty damn corny!!  It’s still pretty early to tell if they could be turned in a different direction, but right now they’re looking like a bunch of mentally challanged romper room kids.  They make Bill Gates look like Kanye West.

   And the way the dude who does pencils draws people’s faces!!??  When I saw the use of that art style in BND, that was one thing cuz I knew it would get switched around soon, but now I’m gonna have to look at that shit on a permanent basis?!  UGHH  And people shit on the way Phillip Tan draws?  I just don’t understand, but like I said, I’m still pretty amateur to the realm of MARVEL Comics, and I still get an opinion as long as the stars and stripe are up on my local flagpole.  

   I still gave it a three though.  It wasn’t horrible or anything.  I just expected SO MUCH more.

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5. oopsxlandmine says:

   November 12, 2010 at 1:23 am

   alright robby. You seem to be a nice guy and this all seems to have you pretty flustered so i’m going to impart some comicbook wisdom to you. If the art bothers you THAT bad, go ahead and drop the book. However, do so knowing that nothing in comics is "permanent". The art on this book will get switched around and around forever and ever, amen.

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6. cubman987 says:

   November 12, 2010 at 10:19 am

   "I obviously didn’t like OMIT either, but I’m sure we don’t even have to argue about that"   You sir, are correct.

   "I’m sure that other folks like me who jumped on with BND (not OMD) are probably thinking the same thing."  You may very well be right about that, that was kind of my point when I guessed you hadn’t been reading before BND, this issue feels a bit more like pre-OMD/BND Spidey which to me is exciting because I think it is time for Spidey to move on from BND, despite the fact that I overall enjoyed BND very much.

   I get that you liked Michelle, but what I am saying is that for the book to move forward, she just doesn’t fit in anymore.  The only way to keep her is to keep having Peter not have work and not be able to afford to live anywhere else, I mean, why would he live with her if he didn’t have to?  I didn’t hate Michelle, especially at first, but I think it is time to move on from that.  I mean, Peter has years of schooling, been a photographer, a high school teacher, and a scientist, it just doesn’t make sense to keep him unemployed and struggling all the time.

   But yeah, from giving the story a 2 and the art a 2 it looked more like you gave the book a 2 which seems pretty low to me, but if you gave it a 3 then that is certainly better, but either way you are certainly entitled to your opinion.  I actually hope you don’t drop the book and that the changes from BND grow on you and you like the rest of Big Time better!

    

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7. jrodine says:

   November 12, 2010 at 12:10 pm

   Don’t like paying $3.99…

   Now that ASM is coming out bi-weekly instead of thrice monthly we’ll pay less per month for the book. I think the monthly page count is around the same, if not more. So we’re getting the same amount of Spidey for less. Sorry you’re not digging this, man. 

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8. CaptainSweatpants says:

   November 13, 2010 at 5:28 pm

   To say a toaster oven is a stove is wrong. To say it is an airplane is totally wrong.

   IMO this review was totally wrong.

   Sorry this didn’t work for you but IMO it is much more like a Spidey book.

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