This issue wraps up the first chapter of our Brand New Day story-line. It's interesting. I don't really see anything new or original in the way Spidey is being handled . . by the creative crew that is. But . . it's interesting. They seem to be doing everything they can to not even mention Mary Jane. They come close to bringing her up every now and then . . . but then . . nothing. This chapter seems to serve mainly to introduce us to the Negative Man character. We actually even find out who he really is . . . this guy that works with Aunt May at the shelter that in which she volunteers. But I don't believe that he knows the connection yet. Oh yeah, there's also the bit about the Spider-mugger guy. He made the connection last issue, with the web-slinger . . that maybe the guy he ripped off was actually Spider-man. Brilliant leap of logic there. So, he goes back to the fence to try to get the wallet back. Like that was going to work. The fence beats the information out of him, and kills him. So now, apparently, he knows who Spider-man is. Maybe. We don't really know for sure yet. There's actually a couple of things that are kind of left up in the air after this issue. But then . . this is just the beginning of the Brand New Day. So they can't leave things to tidy after just one chapter. It appears to me that the way Marvel is going to be handling this is that every month, with the 3 issues, it'll kind of be like separate mini-series. Different artists each month, but probably the same writer. I'm sure some story-arc's will run 6 or 9 issues, but I'm guessing generally it'll run in 3 issue cycles. The first one here is brought to us by the fantastic team of Dan Slott, Steve McNiven and Dexter Vines. Like I said . . interesting. But nothing really new. I'm still wondering how this is all going to affect the Avengers story-lines. Hopefully we'll find out soon.
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