What's the best Spiderman run/arc in your eyes? I've never read very much Spidey and I want to read what makes people love him so much.
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What's the best Spiderman run/arc in your eyes?
What's the best Spiderman run/arc in your eyes? I've never read very much Spidey and I want to read what makes people love him so much.
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Damn... guess Cinemaphile doesn't like Spidey after all
We're tired and you keep reminding us of a radically different Spider-Man from 15 years ago minimum.
Well if this is how you reply to actual answers how can you blame anyone for not engaging in your thread with the easiest answer ever?
I enjoyed the Identity Crisis story line. Basically Peter’s been framed for murder and a bounty is placed on Spider-Man. And because he’s normal he decides to create four new identities to use in his investigation to clear his name
I don't know, don't read Spider-Man comics in decades, Maximum Carnage, maybe?
Amazing Fantasy 15 up through the death of Gwen Stacy is the only correct answer
JMS run is definitive imo after Lee/Romita
Why do people love JMS so much, he writes pretty good but the Spider-Totem shit he introduced was moronic. Of all the characters Spidey didn't need a mystical bent given he was just doing a weird take on the prose from Kraven's last hunt
I hate Dan Slott’s run so much and am glad people have finally turned on it. Had to deal with YEARS of people saying it’s the best ever.
idk who Dan Slott is but I keep seeing people shit on him lately. What Spiderman runs do you recommend as kino?
Start with Amazing Fantasy 15 and just keep going. Only way to do it.
Is it actually worth starting from the beginning? Isn't the reading order super confusing or can you actually just read it numerically?
>Isn't the reading order super confusing
What the hell had the comic industry done to you people? When you finish an issue, read the next one. “Reading order” what the frick are you talking about? Stop looking for short cuts, pick up a comic book, and READ IT. Stop making threads and putting it off if you want to read comics. Know what asking these questions and reading threads isn’t doing? Getting comics in your brain. Afraid of wasting your time? How is this not wasting time?
READ AMAZING FANTASY 15
READ AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 1
READ AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2
ETC.
JUST READ COMICS. THERE WILL NOT BE A QUIZ.
Back in MY DAY you didn’t google “most important runs” or whatever shit. You didn’t ask anonymous strangers who’ve never met you or know what you like what you should do. You bought a huge black and white collection of Spider-Man issues from the beginning and you didn’t stop until you ran out of pages. And if you didn’t have the next one, you started over until you got it. READ SOME GODDAMN COMICS.
This guy is worked up.
You too! I want ten issues read by nightfall Goddammit
>you didn’t google
You're talking about walking to school 5 miles again, grampy
Damn dude actually malding. I do read comics just not Spiderman comics, so I wanted to know what's good so I don't waste my team reading a bunch of trash. You sound like the ultimate boomer consoomer right now.
This is moronic. Tons of Spider-Man arcs are split between Spectacular Spider-Man and Amazing Spider-Man.
To answer op, there's usually things on covers and guides in the back of the comics to help you sort it out. It's rarely split between more than 3 comics so it isn't a gigantic pain in the ass to read.
>Tons of Spider-Man arcs are split between Spectacular Spider-Man and Amazing Spider-Man.
That’s years and years into the character’s run
Not really, it took until the 80s for that to happen and even then it only happened twice before maximum carnage in the early 90s made it happen for most stories
>Is it actually worth starting from the beginning?
No. Reading comics from before the mid 80s is painful.
It was indeed pretty ridiculous how long the braindead circlejerking over that creatively bankrupt run lasted. I bailed out around Spider-Island, but then the whole spock thing happened and the particularly stupid idiots really ramped up the circlejerking, so they conned a bunch of others into reading it, but they quickly came away with many of the same complaints I'd had for his run even before that. Just terrible character writing, godawful dialogue, and uninspired plots and overall storytelling. And absolutely zero funny lines from a character like Spidey is just shameful.
JMS and Paul Jenkins do overall amazing runs with some pretty bad patches here and there but the best Spider-Man ever written in there as well.
You, I like you.
My highlights are:
The Death Of Jean DeWolff (Spectacular Spider-Man 107-110)
Spider-Man Versus Wolverine
Origin of the Species (Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 642-645
The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man! (Amazing Spider-Man #248)
If This Be My Destiny...!
Amazing Spider-Man #500
Spider-man is a character best understood by reading from the beginning. He’s not like Batman or Superman where the changes that came in the comics from the 60s 70s and 80s came as the times and cultures evolving around them and the characters never really changed. Pete grew as a person and changed, sure they core of her character never did but it actually felt like he was growing as a person would in the few decades from the 60s to the 90s. If you do like spidey than the best advice you can take is to just read from the beginning
Threads like this are useless and only made to look for excuses to not read more comics. You want a critical path to “understanding” the character or whatever when you can just start from the beginning. Or from anywhere. Nobody cares what comics you’ve read but you.