‘Spider-Man’ Archives
Amazing Spider-Man #589-600
Catching up on Amazing. Issue 589 is a standalone story about Spot and the Russian mob. Nothing fancy, but good. Dan Slott writes the next two issues with Barry Kitson on art, starring the Fantastic Four. The adventure takes place in the Macroverse, but what's interesting here is the explanation that Peter knows about Mephisto's mindwipe. [...]
Amazing Spider-Man #584-588: Character Assassination
As much as I liked New Ways to Die, I think this arc blows that out of the park. JRJR is back for this arc, but this time a lot happens. Whereas New Ways had a lot of action but not much in terms of resolution, this arc is where it's all revealed. The Spider tracer killings are finally solved, and it felt more like a crime story than a [...]
Amazing Spider-Man #574-583
After New Ways to Die, we're back to shorter stories by a variety of creators. First up there's a Flash story about his time in Iraq. This is a controversial story about the war, that is played realistically, but it also features a superhero inspiring a soldier. Some might think it trivializes the war. Towards the end we also find out that [...]
Amazing Spider-Man #568-573: New Ways to Die
This longer than usual arc is by the superteam of Dan Slott and John Romita Jr. It's a very important arc that finally sees Norman Osborn against Spider-Man after the events of Secret Invasion. Norman brings his Thunderbolts and the end result is pretty big: he announces that Spider-Man is dead. Wow!! But that's not it, we see Eddie Brock [...]
Amazing Spider-man 562-567
The new Spider-Man universe continues with even more bad luck for Peter and more new villains. 562-563 is a more light-hearted story involving the Bookie, who's not really a villain, more an opportunist. There are many other small time villains here though, they all hang out at a bar. This really helped flesh out the villain community, at least [...]
Amazing Spider-Man #549-561
I was supposed to read this title by story arc, one per month, but I just didn't feel compelled to do that. Now I have caught up, so here are my thoughts. The second arc in the Brand New Day era of Spider-Man is by Guggenheim/Larroca. This arc is about the mysterious identities of Menace and Jackpot. I must admit I am sucker for secret [...]
Amazing Spider-Man 546-548
Putting One More Day behind us, we get to the new era of Spider-Man. The first story arc of Brand New Day by Dan Slott and Steve McNiven is a good mix of silver age story with modern sensibilities. Peter is facing new/old challenges, ones that we haven't seen in a while, but that were at the center of these stories many years ago. He is totally [...]
Spider-Man: One More Day
I started reading American comics with Spider-Man, during the McFarlane run. I've followed it through the Clone Saga, but stopped reading after the relaunch with Byrne. I've never been a big fan, it just didn't excite me like the X-Men did. However I did enjoy those stories and art and remember them fondly. Since I stopped reading Spider-Man [...]