Good comics actually not infested with The Message

Love and Rockets was also really good around this time with The Death of Speedy and Human Diastrophism.

>I’m just getting into comics and it seems all the interesting stuff happened in the 80s-90s

Oldgay here. It was at that perfect timeframe of still having enough lighthearted elements from the silver age to have actual fun with, not too many characters or plot elements to be drowned underneath in, and "for kids"-kind of thinking in general to keep them accessible to normies, but the original kid fans of the silver age grew up and began to work in the industry - and were maturing the stories and making the various lores more coherent into a solid continuity WHILE STILL under relatively tight editorial fists - and also when comic shops and thus the direct marketing opening up. This meant you could still have one-and-done but entertaining stories at the Big Two while indies were free to explore much more serious themes, silly ones, or both at once in a huge burst of creativity. This is the era we got the Ninja Turtles in, the most successful indie comic ever. Even DC shook it up with COIE, to say the least.

Thus you could follow the superhero universes and keep up with relatively everything while seeing them begin to become a solidified, living universe, but also see them finally "grow up" with you if you were a teen. And direct market comic shops suddenly placed so many more options at your fingertips.

In many ways it was the swan song of a comic culture that was actually healthy, not the 90s bust or the collapse of the market in the 00s onward.

It gives dimension to Kraven, a characterization of feeling frustrated and empty from where he is(in a meta sense, making him want to break out of this cycle he's been in comics of just being a jobber)
Peter being driven by his love for Mary Jane, which emphasizes why people like that pairing.
Also some good character moments like Peter tossing some money for the funeral of that one underworld contact he had. Basically it's a very human element story.
The one thing I'm not too fond of is Kraven's big victory being fricking Vermin of all people- but maybe that's the point- he's basically a nobody but Kraven sees that as a win only because Spider-man needed Cap to take him in.

Miller was reinventing Batman into the edgy dark knight character and trashing the goofy Adam West persona which is what everyone knew him as. Tim Burton helped that shift too with his movies.

I like how you stopped replying to any and all threads involving these guys.
Looks like Cap doesn't stand after all.

It was the Soviets who put nukes JUST out of range from Western Europe targets that was agreed upon in SALT. The Soviets always broke their promises because they were a rotten oligarchic authoritarian empire who were so used to bullshiting their own people that they believed they could do it to other countries. In either case, Reagan negotiated for them to eventually withdraw with the INF treaty.

You’re acting like Reagan was crazy when his plan worked and he didn’t cause a war at all and got the Soviet to the negotiation table by bucking at their attempts to strong arm the west.

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Also you're still just completely ignoring Gorbachav taking over with a completely different attitude to the US than every previous Soviet leader, while Reagan had a more aggressive attitude than his last few predecessors. And then you're somehow giving Reagan credit lmfao.

>Reagan bad! Zoomer homosexual communist Tiktok told me so!
You’re a rock with teeth
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Yes moron, Reagan’s policy forwards the Soviets obviously worked. It’s also obvious your an illiterate moron who knows dick about history which is why you dropped all pretense of trying to seriously discuss this and are just shitposting now. Go back to breadtube or whatever lol.

The Soviet Union is dead and it’s NEVER EVER coming back

It's practically an objective fact that Reagan went in hard on the Soviets, certainly in his first term or so. He won the 1980 election almost entirely based on the promise of ending détente and his not being some wimpy Democrat who dared to think the USA could live in a world with Communism in it as well as Iran, but that's a whole other can of worms. I don't see why that's something up for debate. Even SDI/Star Wars came about only because Reagan, in the case of nuclear war, wanted to be capable of wiping out Russia without them even touching the US. Sure, it meant he was against MAD which is a good thing by itself, but it was only because he wanted the security of blowing them all up first. I've never heard anything about Reagan wanting to share SDI's technology with the USSR, even if it had ever actually made it to the practical application stage. That hardly makes a peaceable president.
But Reagan did change his mind later on during his presidency, after the several close calls in the 80s and the increasing prominence of anti-nuclear campaigning. There's that story of him watching Threads or The Day After in the White House, one of the two, and being genuinely shaken by it. It was due to both Reagan's growing dislike of the idea of nuclear war and Gorbachev's open, reforming approach to the USSR that also directly led to the Union's collapse in 1991, because Russia has a historically chronic case of awful, incompetent government no matter what they do which finally led to the various talks and treaties.
TL;DR: yes, Reagan eventually helped cool down the Cold War, but only after he'd spent his first few years as president heating the whole affair right back up, and it's foolish to say that he was some peacemaker who really just only wanted to be friends with the Soviets all along.