For anyone familiar with the Spider-man of the past few months, you'll know how rocky it's been going for fiction character Peter Parker. With the end of Peter's marriage and the Brand New Day arc, Spider-man has been turned into the one dimensional character he was when he first started back in the 60's. Meaning all he does is meet new random villains where they get into some kind of non epic final fight that lasts for about 2 issues each, rinse and repeat. With little attention paid to character growth or to what now seems to be an alternate reality where he never marries Mary Jane.
Now that the whole Brand New Day arc is over and they are moving on to New Ways to Die, it looks to be a bit more promising, of course anything does if you are gonna re-introduce venom. The first issue in the arc as much promise as it shows it just still seems to fall flat compared to the writing of Straczynski. Retconning (which means to bring things back to and earlier time, or erase things that happened in the past to be able to tell a new story) is probably one of the worst things you can do to a character that has grown so much over the years and to many readers who have invested time and money.
Yes, they wanted to bring back Spider-man to it's glory days, but the audience has changed from the 60's the medium has changed and culture as well. Now we are just left with a Spider-man song stuck on repeat.
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