Comics Bleeding Cool says: Brand New Day "ends" with ASM #647?

[stillanerd]

Well, to be more specific, they're saying the three-times a month format is GONE after issue #647:

Brand New Day To End With Amazing Spider-Man #647

101 issues in, the thrice-a-month Amazing Spider-Man comic will end it’s current Brand New Day format with issue 647.

Bleeding Cool has previously reported that the book will become a fortnightly Dan Slott title, but whatever the future, they’re going out with a bang. Issue 647 will be written by Brand New Day writers Dan Slott, Bob Gale, Joe Kelly, Mark Waid, Fred Van Lente and Zeb Wells and drawn by, well, pretty much everyone, in a 64 page special for $4.99.

And then… well, might it be a Brand New Brand New Day?

It can’t be denied that sales on the title have slipped rather radically of late, by a third over the last two years. Something needs to be done. And it seems that something is being done.

Expect this, and more, to be announced at San Diego.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/07/09/brand-new-day-to-end-with-amazing-spider-man-647/

 

[Hobgoblin]

Interesting. I was wondering how ASM was doing, sales wise.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

So what does that mean?

 

[Hobgoblin]

So what does that mean?

Besides the fact that Marvel is putting all on its chips on Dan Slott, I dont know. Perhaps people want a steady writer instead of a different one every few arcs?

 

[Donald Thomas]

Besides the fact that Marvel is putting all on its chips on Dan Slott, I dont know. Perhaps people want a steady writer instead of a different one every few arcs?

Aloha,
I think this is great. Many of us wanted Slott as the main writer from the beginning of BND. Marvel tried something that at first was cool. A rotating crew of writers and artists. This made all of us focus more on story development rather than the personality writing and drawing the book. But, historically, Spidey has done much better when there was one main writer and one main artist.Wonder who the main artist is going to be?
Spidey rules

 

[C. Pumpkins]

I think they're still having more than one artist on the book.

Go Slott! Should be fun.

 

[Meehaul]

I wish they could lure a bigger name writer on ASM if they are going to only one writer/artist team. I think Slott's work on ASM has been alright, nothing special or particularly interesting. I've preferred Van Lente and Kelly, I think. On the other hand, when you get someone really great (JMS or Grant Morrison), you wind up getting the character (or the character's past) dramatically altered to fit the writer's vision. Part of what lured Morrison to Batman, I suspect, is that he had such a rich, bizzare history to draw from and he could do nearly anything he wanted to knit Batman's diverse history together. Spidey's got a better defined history and a more continuously defined character than Batman (partly because of Batman's age 1939-today versus 1962-today and partly because DC worried less about consistency of character than Marvel), so thats a bit harder to do and much more conspicuous when it's done. But, we'll see....

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Hmmm, interesting.

For the main artist, i'd like it to either be JRJ or Marcos Martin.

 

[Spidey_62]

I wouldn't mind Paulo Siqueria doing this book full time if Marcos Martin can't.

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

Well, great fer Slott, but if the continuity isn't properly restored I still won't be buying the book.

 

[Donald Thomas]

Well, great fer Slott, but if the continuity isn't properly restored I still won't be buying the book.

Aloha,
I think of all the writer's working on Spidey since BND, Slott has the strongest sense of continuity, Time will tell.
Spidey rules

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

Slott is great with continuity. He can also be very funny if he has the right material to work with. But if the whole Mephisto claptrap is still in place with Spidey being a swinging single unemployable man-child, I absolutely refuse to buy the book on a regular basis (I may pick up the odd issue or run here and there depending on content for whatever reason). Know how a lot of people abandoned the title when Ben Reilly was called the original? This is my Ben Reilly moment.

P.S. Just to clarify I am a Ben Reilly fan and was only using that reference to put that into terms long-term fans could understand and relate to. Ben in fact got me INTO reading and collecting Spidey.

 

[SpideyInATree]

If Slott is going to be the one main writer that will be GREAT. You put him with Marcos Martin for a 12, 15, or a 24 issue run and it's a new Spider-Man golden age. Marriage. Single. Doesn't matter. Slott and Martin are a great team!

DO IT, MARVEL! DO IT!

 

[Spidermanfan]

Finally, a great writer that can write! Now the book will get better. (I just hope they REALLY drop the thrice a month thing, I'm so many issues behind it's not even funny at this point!)

 

[Spider-Man '92]

I don't mind the rotating artists and writers, but I think it would be good to get back in the swing of things and stay with a set group. Let's hope for the best.

 

[Miken Ayers]

If Dan Slott's made the main writer for the book I don't see it lasting. Tom Brevoort publicly called him the most self destructive person he knows and that the man is plagued with deadline problems. So in that case putting him at the helm should do more harm than good and bring us all a little closer to the end of the dark ages.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

That's funny, since Tom Brevoort and Dan Slott are good pals.

 

[iloveclones]

I sort of remember Slott getting a public dressing down about missing deadlines. I think it was Brevoort who did that. But that was years ago. Pre-Thing series if I remember right. Somehow, I think they'll be fine. Not everyone in life operates in full-on drama queen mode.