Made My Leap Into Comics!

[Rellings]

I think 500 posts? And since nobody else has recommended it, Runaways.

I see this in basically everybody's pull list, personally the story doesn't really appeal to me, but I'll give er a try. There has to be something to it if it's so popular.

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

Now that a relaunch has been basically confirmed, you HAVE to pick up Spider-Girl. Best Spidey title yer gonna read these days.

 

[Rellings]

Now that a relaunch has been basically confirmed, you HAVE to pick up Spider-Girl. Best Spidey title yer gonna read these days.

Where does Spider-Girl fit into Amazing Spider-Man? Was it a branching story starting at a certain issue that spun into its own series, or does it belong with one of the other Spider-Man titles?

 

[Doc Destruction]

It takes the Clone Saga, which is basically ignored in 616 continuity and expounds on it in the future.

baby May and Kaine are still around, and May is now Spider-Girl because Peter lost a leg. It's by FAR the best Spidey title out right now.

 

[Elijya]

basicly it's set in an alternate future with Spider-Man's daughter

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

Basically it branches off from PPSM #75 and takes place 15 years in th' future (although a retroactive timeline has their future as our present, so no flyin' cars). It got it's fateful start in What If? vol. 2 #105 which could be called "What If Baby May Had Lived?" And from that one issue we got a whole new universe that gives fans a taste of simplistic oldschool style between all th' Crisises of Infinite House of M Wars Disassembled crap.

 

[hippy fascist]

I thought spier-girl was mc2 rather than 616, well I gues you learn something new everyday

 

[Elijya]

it is MC2, MC2 is an ALTERNATIVE future that split off from a specific moment of Marvel History, which is the birth of baby May. Everything before that moment that happened in the 616 also happened in MC2

 

[hippy fascist]

 

[SpideyInATree]

For Spiderman I probably do the same with Amazing Spider-man.

I'd tread lightly with the newer Amazing Spider-Man trades. There are a couple handfuls of storylines that aren't very good. But really it's up to you. But I'd suggest staying away from Sins Past and The Other. Those are two recent Spider-Man storylines that pretty much all Spider-Man fans collectively agree aren't very well done.

But as I said, it's up to your whether you want to give them a shot and see for yourself. You might like them, as some posters on here have, which there is nothing wrong with that.

 

[Rellings]

I'd tread lightly with the newer Amazing Spider-Man trades. There are a couple handfuls of storylines that aren't very good. But really it's up to you. But I'd suggest staying away from Sins Past and The Other. Those are two recent Spider-Man storylines that pretty much all Spider-Man fans collectively agree aren't very well done.

But as I said, it's up to your whether you want to give them a shot and see for yourself. You might like them, as some posters on here have, which there is nothing wrong with that.

With all the books, games, and movies I get, I always feel that I'm missing out if I'm not a completionist and get the first and end with the last. With comics that's pretty hard with my current income, that's why I found it so hard to get into them. So most likely I'll grab em just because they are part of the story, and if It was ever mentioned in a later issue and I never read it, It would drive me absolutely friggin crazy! It's a personal weakness I've always had for a story with any sort of continuity.

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

I hear ya, I'm a completionist too, that's why I haven't dropped any titles. Yet. I intend to change that soon and just fish fer backissues later.

As fer references, no worries. Stories are now self-contained in 6 issues. Barely ANY references anymore. Shame, really.

 

[Elijya]

With all the books, games, and movies I get, I always feel that I'm missing out if I'm not a completionist and get the first and end with the last.Personal weakness I've always had for a story with any sort of continuity.

That's a good and bad habit. Good, because there's lots of series out there that that is essential for, but bad because it's more than a wee bit ridiculous to read 900 Spider-Man comics just to get caught up, especially when some of them may not be very good or almost completely unnotable

 

[Rellings]

That's a good and bad habit. Good, because there's lots of series out there that that is essential for, but bad because it's more than a wee bit ridiculous to read 900 Spider-Man comics just to get caught up, especially when some of them may not be very good or almost completely unnotable

I think I am going to buy the 40 years of Amazing-Spider Man DVD and then I will only have to catch up 30 issues! As long as I have read them I am fine.

 

[Elijya]

well, the only problem with that, is that that CD doesn't include the annuals or his other series like Spectacular Spider-Man and Web of Spider-Man, nor the issues that crossover with other series like Secret Wars

but yes, for someone knew like yourself it'd be a great resource. They have ones for I believe the Fantastic Four and Avengers as well. I have one that has the first 10-15 issues of ALL the old Marvel titles

personally I just can't read comics on the computer, though

 

[SpideyInATree]

personally I just can't read comics on the computer, though

Me either. It doesn't really feel the same as having the book right there in front of you. And, of course, after a while my eyes start to hurt.