I’ve been following the recent Spider books since the One More Day / Brand New Day storyline and have a feeling of “Why should I care as a long time reader anymore?”

If they can erase the Spider marriage and all the strong emotions, connections that brought about. Why should you buy the new Brand New Day books and invest emotions with these characters and situations? When clearly the rug can be pulled out from under the reader at the whim of Marvel.

One thing that made the Spider books great was the realistic setting and actions having consequences. The Brand New Day reboot showed that consequences can be erased like they never happened.

It feels like I’m reading 1970’s era Spider-Man again. Harry Osborn (who conveniently returned) doesn’t know Peter is Spider-Man, and likes Peter but hates Spidey. Spider-Man accused of crimes he didn’t commit. Spider-Man living with the threat his secret identity might be revealed.

For me as a long time reader it all feels like a case of “been there, done that”.

The new characters they’ve surrounded Spider-Man with feel like a cast that in a few years only a handful will still be around. The rest will fall by the wayside. And again a case of “seen it before”.

And back to my main point of, the books feel hollow to me now because of the above seen it all before ideas, and why invest emotional attachment to the books now, when clearly the reset button can and will be hit in the future. And real life don’t work that way. And sure it’s only a comic world where anything can happen, but as mentioned above the Spider books were mostly real world settings and magical resets where not what this character and book was about.