How many issues of Amazing Spider-Man have you read, and why did you stop?

How many issues of Amazing Spider-Man have you read, and why did you stop?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Everything I've read with Peter has been mainly from the 60's to 80's era. Everything else has been either Ultimate and mostly Miles and Ben centric stuff.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Miles

      [...]

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Checkmate homie, I was gay before getting into Miles

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Sorta similar case here. I read collect issues from that era from my local library, plus a bit more when you count later stories stuff like Last Hunt. I stopped reading once it became clear Marvel would never let him grow as a character outside of a broke student.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Been working my way through. I've read every issue from 1 - 380 or so plus everything from Vol 2 onwards. Working on closing that gap
      I have not stopped, I may stop when 1000 comes out

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Read all the way through the clone saga/Ben Spidey era, stopped because I was burnt out and didn't want to get to OMD
    Ben's a neat character despite the clone saga overall being ass

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I've read all of the Marvel Masterworks that are currently available to be pirated, so #1-251.
    Then I've read Kraven's Last Hunt (I did this before reading the ASM Masterworks, years ago) and the Zeb Wells run which I dropped when he introduced Kamala Khan working for Oscorp (I'm a big Kamalagay and while the previous issues were mediocre, they did my girl dirty.)
    I plan of following the ASM and SSM Masterworks until they get to Maximum Carnage.
    I have no interest in ever reading Clone Saga.
    I avoided the JMS run this whole time because I know about its two most infamous stories, but I suppose I'll have to swallow my stubbornness and read it at some point.
    Literally everybody shits on Slott's ASM. I personally love Slott's Silver Surfer and consider it one of my all-time favorite comic book runs, but I'm probably never reading his ASM due to all the controversy and drama surrounding it.
    It sounds like Spencer was the only ASM writer post-OMD that actually cared about restoring elements of the character people like, and is potentially? the only time Spider-Man dated Mary Jane since OMD, and is at least the last time they'll be dating for probably a very long time, so I might give Spencer a try after JMS even if it gets convoluted at the end and apparently it's really obvious he tried and failed to undo OMD.
    I wish modern ASM had runs that fans would just automatically recommend without caveats, like Daredevil with Bendis/Brubaker/Waid/Soule/Zdarsky.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      kids shouldn't be allowed here

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The totem stuff is without a doubt the weakest part of JMS' run but he really excels at character moments and humor. Plus, if it's any consolation, he hates OMD as much as we do. Don't know how he feels about Sins Past but I can't imagine he looks back on that one fondly either

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I love Silver Surfer
      Holy shit gay just watch Dr Who

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The only spider media I consumed is Spider-Verse, Ultimate Spider-Man comics and the MCU.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      zoomer moment.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >not even the raimi trilogy
      KWAB

      zoomer moment.

      don’t lump that moron in with us.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        All zoomers are morons.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          hey frick you, buddy.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't know like maybe a few dozen issues. I've honestly never been that into Spider-Man. The only times I read his comics is if something I was into crossed over into them.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I've read up through the DeMatteis/Buscema Spectacular stuff, when Harry dies. The Clone Saga and everything afterwards can burn. There are intolerable periods before that, so I'm not pretending it was always good until it wasn't, but after a certain point it's hard to keep caring.

    Lee/Ditko and Stern are the best runs.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    first 150, intermittent 70s/80s stuff, Dematteis stuff, Stracynski stuff, BND, Spencer run.
    they don't want Spidey to be happy.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I read roger stern run, and then from The Other until Spider-man: civil war II (the clone conspiracy) then I stopped reading capes from Marvel in 2016.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    So what runs should I read?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Ditko and Romita

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      How many have I read?
      More than I should have… made it to about halfway through the Clone Saga. Then stopped when I realized that I hadn’t really enjoyed the title in years. Tried to dive into JMS when friends told me it was good. It was not. Tried again a few times over the years but Slott always sucked. Was almost suckered again with Spencer but thankfully too jaded to fall for that old trick.

      Plan to collect what I consider the core titles in hardcover format:
      ASM 1-350
      Spec 1-200
      Team up 1-150
      Web 1-100

      Then I’ll be done forever.

      Lee/Ditko, Lee/Romita, & Stern

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        how can you tolerate team up but hate jms? He's really good

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I don’t “tolerate” Team Up, I enjoy it for what it is. Largely inconsequential but fun little team up stories. They were from an era where heroes were more often than not isolated to their own titles, so it was a breath of fresh air to see heroes interact and fight villain-of-the-week type stories. It was fun.

          JMS had peaks and valleys. The valleys were among the worst, most depressing, dull stories in the entire Spider comics run. It was not worth reading for the peaks when the valleys essentially broke the series.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            formula got stagnated after 10 issues.
            >JMS had peaks and valleys. The valleys were among the worst, most depressing, dull stories in the entire Spider comics run. It was not worth reading for the peaks when the valleys essentially broke the series.
            you didn't read it

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Agree to disagree.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I haven’t been that good about track. Most of 1-350 v1, but with some fairly big gaps.
    I recognize tgat there are some good comics after, but my interest in marvel declines sharply after 1992 or so.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    All of them, wish i stopped in 2008, but i stopped buying around then.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm not sure how many amazing issues I've read, honestly, but I have read hundreds of Spider-man related comics (from what ifs to ultimate to Spider-girl to amazing to minis to marvel adventures etc.)
    I stopped reading because damn-near everything after OMD was shit. It's less about Pete and more about the power-set. I don't care about the power-set, I can about Pete.

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