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After 20 years.. Goodbye Spidey

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WEBHEAD

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So I have finally quit reading ASM. Marvel switched to 3 issues a month, and it broke me. The stories werent that good, the art was a turnoff, and it was just too expensive. So after 20 years I part ways with ASM. I started collecting this title at the age of 12, my first issue aquired for a $10.00 bag of comics from the paperboy which included ASM 300 (my first spider man comic). I fell in love with the McFarlane art and was an avid reader throughout the Larson era, which shortly after saw my exit from comics. Mix in a few years later a rabid lust for completing runs, and you have 2 long boxes of ASM.. So after the past 4 years of rebuilding, filling, and reading moderns it is over. It was fun while it lasted, but I cant take it anymore.

 

Goodbye webhead. I will enjoy selling those long boxes. :cloud9:

 

 

When that "Brand new Day" :censored: started it was time to call it a day. I collected the entire run up to that.... but now it's all over :sick:

 

 

 

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Also, Spidey is no longer 3x monthly now.

Since when?

 

About a month or two ago, now twice a month.

My Bad

I must have missed the announcement

I thought it was always 3 times a month

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For my money, the Roger Stern/JRJ era was the pinnacle for the series, the art and story were never better.

 

I loved that era as well. It's my personal Spidey golden age. :cloud9: Although, in terms of artwork, Romita sr is my favorite.

 

Was that the early 1980's? That was a fun time to read. It was also the first time I ever had a subscription.

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I quit after "Man Mountain Marko". Having a big strong guy fight Spider-Man was stupid beyond belief and I had better things to do with my 12 cents. I have not purchased one off the stands since.

 

It would be interesting to graph Spider-Man high points and low points in both storytelling and marketing.

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I quit after "Man Mountain Marko". Having a big strong guy fight Spider-Man was stupid beyond belief and I had better things to do with my 12 cents. I have not purchased one off the stands since.

 

It would be interesting to graph Spider-Man high points and low points in both storytelling and marketing.

 

I agree that #70's to mid #90's lacked a little imagination for me but then I dislike that entire era, even in movies for some reason. Maybe the whole psychedelia thing turned me off.

 

#96 to the #160's were a lot of fun to read with lots of new stuff going on nearly every issue.

 

Then it became kind of tacky for a while to me and rebounded in the #200's.

 

 

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For my money, the Roger Stern/JRJ era was the pinnacle for the series, the art and story were never better.

 

I loved that era as well. It's my personal Spidey golden age. :cloud9: Although, in terms of artwork, Romita sr is my favorite.

 

Was that the early 1980's? That was a fun time to read. It was also the first time I ever had a subscription.

 

Yep, started early 80's. I had a sub from 211 up to 236. Just missed 238 doh! I still have all my sub copies. 229-230 was a killer two issue arc. Spidey Vs the Juggernaut. Great, great stuff.

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For my money, the Roger Stern/JRJ era was the pinnacle for the series, the art and story were never better.

 

I loved that era as well. It's my personal Spidey golden age. :cloud9: Although, in terms of artwork, Romita sr is my favorite.

 

Was that the early 1980's? That was a fun time to read. It was also the first time I ever had a subscription.

 

Yep, started early 80's. I had a sub from 211 up to 236. Just missed 238 doh! I still have all my sub copies. 229-230 was a killer two issue arc. Spidey Vs the Juggernaut. Great, great stuff.

 

The issue with Fusion was the first issue I ever got via subscription.

 

That juggernaut read was fantabulous!

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I started with issue 58....and like conditionfreak, I lost my passion for the book with 121-122, although I bought a few more out of habit, finally stopping with the flood of Punisher issues that trumpeted the darkness of the BA. I preferred the off beat, bizarre, fun oriented stuff of the SA. I got back in twice more with the Romita Jr. stuff for a while and then again with McFarlane. I guess that angst is what always made ASM tick....but over the years I think balance was lost. I can understand Pat's decision to stop, but I hope he takes time to be sure before he sells off long boxes full of the stuff he DOES care about. GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

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I'm no quitter! (tsk)

 

I'm enjoying the latest issues and look forward to Slott "owning" the book rather than sharing it. There have always been peaks and valleys but after coming out of the 3 times/month schedule, I see better times ahead.

 

:wishluck:

 

 

 

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For my money, the Roger Stern/JRJ era was the pinnacle for the series, the art and story were never better.

I loved that era as well. It's my personal Spidey golden age. :cloud9: Although, in terms of artwork, Romita sr is my favorite.

Was that the early 1980's? That was a fun time to read. It was also the first time I ever had a subscription.

Yep, started early 80's. I had a sub from 211 up to 236. Just missed 238 doh! I still have all my sub copies. 229-230 was a killer two issue arc. Spidey Vs the Juggernaut. Great, great stuff.

229-230 - 'Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut' - gets my vote for best Spidey story ever. It's a two issue expansion of the qualities seen in ASM 33.

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Why does everyone hate Bagley, I didn't think he was that bad. I always thought Erik Larsen was much, much worse. Though he did draw MJ with a nice big rack! lol as a teen I sure enjoyed that.

I like Bagley. Steady, average work. I'm not sure how you can hate Bagley. To me he's the artist equivalent of a Honda Accord - very much center of the Bell curve.

 

I hated Larsen's Venom, with the tongue and the slobber. He took the menace the TM had drawn the character with, and turned it into a caricature.

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Why does everyone hate Bagley, I didn't think he was that bad. I always thought Erik Larsen was much, much worse. Though he did draw MJ with a nice big rack! lol as a teen I sure enjoyed that.

I like Bagley. Steady, average work. I'm not sure how you can hate Bagley. To me he's the artist equivalent of a Honda Accord - very much center of the Bell curve.

 

I hated Larsen's Venom, with the tongue and the slobber. He took the menace the TM had drawn the character with, and turned it into a caricature.

 

Yup, Bagley was your typical journeyman. Reliable and getting the job done. I personally think his work evolved nicely and his Ultimate Spider-man work was just as strong and evocative of his era as someone like Ross Andru was of his.

 

When I think of great Spidey art in the 2000's, I think of Bagley's run on USM.

 

 

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