What are your best/worst Spider-Man events? And why?
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What are your best/worst Spider-Man events? And why?
Best: Spider-Verse
Worst: Spider-Island and Spidergeddon.
Best
-- Acts of Vengeance since that gave us a goddamn good story with Cosmic Spider-Man.
-- Secret Wars '84 still the best showing of Spider-Man as character from writing and character impact in any Marvel event.
-- Civil War, the main event was trash, but JMS' Civil War tie-ins and Back in Black is awesome.
-- HUNTED would have to be the best Spider-Man centric event complete with awesome ".HU" one-shots.
Worst
-- Superior Spider-Man.
It kinda depends on your definition of event.
But Kraven's Last Hunt could count. It was a crossover that took over three titles for two months, and featured Spider-Man believed dead.
The worst event is probably the worst crossover of the clone saga.
I don't know if you can concider it as an event, but the Birth of Venom was very fun to read.
Composed of :
[LIST=1][*]Amid the Chaos, There Comes a Costume - Secret War #8[*]The Black Costume Saga - AMS #252-259[*]The Break Up - Spectacular Spider-Man #100[*]Til Death Do Us Part - Web of Spider-Man #1[*]Venom - AMS #300 + partial of ASM #298-299[*]The return of Venom - AMS #315-317[*]Venom Files from ASM annual #25[/LIST]
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I will never complain about regular event semantics again.
Since it's alright to mention events that happened before OMD, I'll go ahead and choose...
[B]Round Robin: The Sidekick's Revenge![/B]
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Definitely [B]best[/B], IMHO. :)
Worst: Spider-Verse.
I'm not sure about "best."
Best: not sure
Worst: Hunted
Spidey has loads of great events in his long history. Immediately coming to mind are Ends of the Earth, KLH, Dying Wish/Superior Spider-man and I'll will always have a soft-spot for Spider-Hunt (and Identity Crisis to a lesser extent).
And then there is The Gathering of Five/Final Chapter.
Because I apparently hate myself, I recently payed actual money for the trade to revisit and see if it was as awful as I remember. On the plus side, it wasn't exactly as bad as I remember. On the negative side; it was worse.
[QUOTE=K7P5V;4692937][B]Round Robin: The Sidekick's Revenge![/B][/QUOTE]
I recently got around to re-reading this in one of the Epic Collections and it's an absolute blast to read. And bat-shit insane with it's twists and turns! :)
Best: Spider-Island
Worst: Maximum Clonage
The best: the Ultimate clone saga
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[QUOTE=exile001;4696550]I recently got around to re-reading this in one of the Epic Collections and it's an absolute blast to read. And bat-shit insane with it's twists and turns! :)[/QUOTE]
Awesome! It was a wonderful story, and Marvel's Epic Collections are pleasingly economical (IMHO). ;)
[QUOTE=Ultimate Captain America;4696624]The best: the Ultimate clone saga
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Totally agree. Bendis made this a wonderful reading experience. :cool:
[B]Best:[/B] Superior Spider-Man