**Warning: Spoilers ahead for Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Yet, I wasn’t expecting Spider-Man: Brand New Day to portray such a powerful depiction of grief not as something to ‘get over’, but a defining transformation. Brand New Day emphasises that grief isn’t simply a set of stages that you work through, and poof, you’re back to how everything was before. In Brand New Day, grief unlocks the magnitude of Jean and Peter’s abilities. Spider-Man: Brand New Day is out now in cinemas.