Love it or hate it, every new Spider-Man comic book run that bears a new creative team is likely to arrive with its own handful of retcons associated with the obligation to be new-reader-friendly. This is ideally terrific for anyone who’s never read Spider-Man comics before, and can also be received as a welcome palate cleanser, depending on what has been retconned or discarded, but it’s obviously going to rub readers the wrong way who have scaled Spider-Man’s mountains of lore and are devastated to see a character or a development they liked essentially erased or dismissed.