>>116576830Spencer's favorite Spider-Man writers (barring Lee) are Stern and DeMatteis. He clearly loves 80s Spider-Man, the grittier storytelling combined with the longer ongoing mysteries so he's revisiting a lot of those stories and things he loves probably out of fanboyism and I wouldn't at all be shocked if it was a way to show fans, after like 12 years of post-BND stuff and Slott, the style of Spider-Man he loves.
I'd like to see him bring back some characters that were more prominent in that era like Glory, Puma, or Joy Mercado but whatever.