One potential wrinkle is the
Amazing Spider-Man schedule.
Does making
Amazing Spider-Man come out twice a month signal to readers that the major events in Peter's life occur in this book.
It also complicates the satellite books when ten issues of Amazing Spider-Man are published in between the first and last chapters of a six issue storyline?
On the other hand, does making
Amazing Spider-Man more expensive creative an opportunity for an entry-level satellite book?
The other question that hasn't been resolved is whether satellite books sell poorly because most satellite books won't sell well, or because the hooks just aren't that commercial.
A review of Zdarsky's Spectacular Spider-Man credited him with telling all sorts of stories (time travel, secret siblings, intimate issue-long conversations) which isn't an easily explainable high concept and doesn't showcase how a series is different from
Amazing Spider-Man.
Would it work better if we had books with easily understandable concepts alongside the twice-monthly Amazing Spider-Man? If
The Legendary Spider-Man were a monthly title with twelve issue runs by writers and/ or artists who had made their mark on the character before (Peter David & Giusepe Camuncoli followed by JM Dematteis & Terry Dodson.) and
Web of Spider-Man were a team book focusing on Spider-Man's allies, a bit like the rebirth Detective Comics.