Comics Spider-Man in July 2008

[wolvie2020]

Looking forward to al of it! Spidey hasn't been this much fun since about 2001

DD and Wolvie, haha! I love it when all 3 guys are together, takes me back to the 80's

I must say, the Hammerhead thing has always got on my wick. Didn't he 1st die with Ock back in the 70's? Without any explanation for his return? (Which happened many subsequent times after as well?)

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

Looking forward to al of it! Spidey hasn't been this much fun since about 2001

DD and Wolvie, haha! I love it when all 3 guys are together, takes me back to the 80's

I must say, the Hammerhead thing has always got on my wick. Didn't he 1st die with Ock back in the 70's? Without any explanation for his return? (Which happened many subsequent times after as well?)

No, he just got stuck between dimensions, iirc...

 

[spider greg]

Here's a link to some covers. DD's pose is interesting.

http://www.marvel.com/news/comicstories.3181.First_Look~colon~_July_2008_Spider-Man_Comics

 

[The Lizard]

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #565
Written by MARC GUGGENHEIM
Pencils & Cover by PHIL JIMENEZ
Her name is CLASSIFIED. She's Spider-Man's newest and most terrifying nemesis -- and she just discovered his secret identity. With an army of villains at her command, even with the help of Daredevil, can Spidey protect his secret identity from his new foe? Find out as Marc Guggenheim and Phil Jimenez give you the fight of Spidey's life against the Brand New CLASSIFIED!
32 PGS./Rated A …$2.99

 

[shinlyle]

Spider-Girl sounds great! t:

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Here's a link to some covers. DD's pose is interesting.

http://www.marvel.com/news/comicstories.3181.First_Look~colon~_July_2008_Spider-Man_Comics

Very nice! The Dardevil cool looks very cool and so do all the others. ASM: Brand New Day Extra cover looks amazing, IMO.

 

[wolvie2020]

No, he just got stuck between dimensions, iirc...

Really? When did that get explained? I remember an interview with Gerry Conway, (he also talked about this in the letters pages of some ASM's at the time,) about how he started to kill/injure characters as he felt it was his resposibility to show that violence leads to things like this happening, and he felt that doing otherwise would glamourise it. Thus him blowing up Ock and Hammerhead, (and killing Gwen as well as others, etc.)

I also remember him saying, (although I may be wrong about this part,) that the characters were brought back with no real, (or sensible,) explanation.

So tell me Cap, how did it pan out in the MU?

 

[wolvie2020]

Very nice! The Dardevil cool looks very cool and so do all the others. ASM: Brand New Day Extra cover looks amazing, IMO.

Ditto. I'm really intruiged by the DD cover... FINALLY, DD and Spidey are back together! I've always felt that they've always been a very logical match in the MU

 

[moraldeficiency]

One, that's hilarious.


Two, I completely spaced and missed that it's a she as a mystery supervillian. I take back my idiotic comment that it's BT.


Three, hooray beer.


That is all.

 

[Blader5489]

564 sounds good, I enjoy hearing different perspectives in a story especially when they include the villians'. 565, 566? Yeah, less so. There'll be no getting excited about Pete's identity getting out in the near future. It's good they're using daredevil again, unlike wolverine, he makes sense for pete to be around. NA terrifies me as bendis can't write 616 Pete as anything other than a punch line, a sidekick to luke cage, or a ninja beat up dummy.

You forgot "Jewish comedian."

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Ditto. I'm really intruiged by the DD cover... FINALLY, DD and Spidey are back together! I've always felt that they've always been a very logical match in the MU

Agreed, DD is just so awesome to have in Spidey stories.

 

[Themanofbat]

Really? When did that get explained? I remember an interview with Gerry Conway, (he also talked about this in the letters pages of some ASM's at the time,) about how he started to kill/injure characters as he felt it was his resposibility to show that violence leads to things like this happening, and he felt that doing otherwise would glamourise it. Thus him blowing up Ock and Hammerhead, (and killing Gwen as well as others, etc.)

I also remember him saying, (although I may be wrong about this part,) that the characters were brought back with no real, (or sensible,) explanation.

So tell me Cap, how did it pan out in the MU?

Conway was a bit full of himself if he actually said those comments...

The only real reason for killing Gwen was because Stan Lee turned her into a two-dimensional "boo hoo, I hate Spider-Man for killing my Dad" type of character... A then very young Gerry Conway didn't know how to progress the character and had her killed instead (on a suggestion by Johnny Romita).

Doc Ock survived the blast, but Hammerhead somehow "phased out of reality". (This is directly from The Spider-Man Encuclopedia, so you can roll your eyes all you want)..."The ghost-like Hammerhead returned to trouble his old foe (Doc Ock), who in turn attempted to dispel his spectral sparring partner with a partical accelerator. Having the opposite effect, the device returned Hammerhead to his full corporal self".

This story can be read in Amazing Spider-Man #157, 158 & 159 (from a great cliffhanger in ASM #156 ) which can be found in Essential Spider-Man vol. 7

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Conway was a bit full of himself if he actually said those comments...

The only real reason for killing Gwen was because Stan Lee turned her into a two-dimensional "boo hoo, I hate Spider-Man for killing my Dad" type of character... A then very young Gerry Conway didn't know how to progress the character and had her killed instead (on a suggestion by Johnny Romita).

Doc Ock survived the blast, but Hammerhead somehow "phased out of reality". (This is directly from The Spider-Man Encuclopedia, so you can roll your eyes all you want)..."The ghost-like Hammerhead returned to trouble his old foe (Doc Ock), who in turn attempted to dispel his spectral sparring partner with a partical accelerator. Having the opposite effect, the device returned Hammerhead to his full corporal self".

This story can be read in Amazing Spider-Man #157, 158 & 159 (from a great cliffhanger in ASM #156 ) which can be found in Essential Spider-Man vol. 7

I would just like to say that was an awesome story!

 

[Doc Destruction]

I LOVED that arc. A lot.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

I LOVED that arc. A lot.

Spidey refusing to shake Ock's hand at the hand was great because it shows that they really don't like eachother.

 

[Dangerous]

I wanna see the covers.

 

[DestinyMakerX]

ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #124
Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Pencils & Cover by STUART IMMONEN
“War of the Symbiotes” rages on – as the Ultimate Beetle takes flight! Deep inside the corporate headquarters of Roxxon lies a vial containing the creepy black symbiote substance…or at least it did, until the Beetle stole it! Can Spider-Man capture this bug thug before disaster strikes, and what is Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D.’s interest in the stolen material? The answers await in the book that has Ain’t It Cool News saying “It’s got excitement, emotion, action…I have such love for this book.”
32 PGS./Rated A …$2.99

MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #41
Written by MARC SUMERAK
Penciled by RYAN STEGMAN
Cover by SEAN GORDON
MURPHY
Start your engines, Spider-Fans, because Peter Parker is about to hit the highway on one of the most exciting adventures of his young life -- Midtown High's Driver's Ed course! But the road to four-wheeled freedom becomes bumpy when the monstrous Man-Bull stampedes through the city streets! It's high-octane hijinks at the speed of Spidey!
32 PGS./All Ages …$2.99

 

[WolfCypher]

ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #124
Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Pencils & Cover by STUART IMMONEN
“War of the Symbiotes” rages on – as the Ultimate Beetle takes flight! Deep inside the corporate headquarters of Roxxon lies a vial containing the creepy black symbiote substance…or at least it did, until the Beetle stole it! Can Spider-Man capture this bug thug before disaster strikes, and what is Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D.’s interest in the stolen material? The answers await in the book that has Ain’t It Cool News saying “It’s got excitement, emotion, action…I have such love for this book.”
32 PGS./Rated A …$2.99

MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #41
Written by MARC SUMERAK
Penciled by RYAN STEGMAN
Cover by SEAN GORDON
MURPHY
Start your engines, Spider-Fans, because Peter Parker is about to hit the highway on one of the most exciting adventures of his young life -- Midtown High's Driver's Ed course! But the road to four-wheeled freedom becomes bumpy when the monstrous Man-Bull stampedes through the city streets! It's high-octane hijinks at the speed of Spidey!
32 PGS./All Ages …$2.99

I am so ready f...wait, M-Man-Bull?

 

[Kirk Langstrom]

I am so ready f...wait, M-Man-Bull?

An old Daredevil rogue, iirc...

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

I wanna see the covers.

They were in the link that spider-greg posted.

 

[nobndfan]

So Spidey's life is going to be profoundly impacted, hum? Who cares? They can always change that later, doesn't much matter. Continuity no longer matters, as OMD/BND prove.

 

[Blader5489]

So Spidey's life is going to be profoundly impacted, hum? Who cares? They can always change that later, doesn't much matter. Continuity no longer matters, as OMD/BND prove.

Still not tired of that argument, huh?

 

[shinlyle]

Still not tired of that argument, huh?

As Marvel isn't tired of using the same tagline to pimp their books, I see no reason why that argument isn't still valid....but I'm sure you don't see it that way.

 

[Blader5489]

As Marvel isn't tired of using the same tagline to pimp their books, I see no reason why that argument isn't still valid....but I'm sure you don't see it that way.

The idea that "continuity no longer matters" is so utterly wrong and reeking of knee-jerk sensationalism that you can't possibly take it seriously. Continuity doesn't matter...really? Then how do you explain the deep inter-issue continuity between BND issues thus far?

 

[shinlyle]

The idea that "continuity no longer matters" is so utterly wrong and reeking of knee-jerk sensationalism that you can't possibly take it seriously. Continuity doesn't matter...really? Then how do you explain the deep inter-issue continuity between BND issues thus far?

Well, they shook things up with "Sins Past". They ignored it and it went away. They shook things up with "The Other". They ignored it and it went away. They shook things up with the unmasking. They couldn't ignore it and make it go away. They made a deal with the devil, and it all went away.

It's fairly safe to say that any changes made to Spidey's status quo are just things that could potentially be washed away with an Infinity Gaunlet, a Deal with the Devil, or an owed favor from The God of Mischief. It doesn't matter that much in any comic, as the same can be done with any comic out there, but the Spidey books still have a sterling reputation of time-warps and life-changes not mattering much.