Anyone Enjoyed The Post-Clone Saga Pre-Reboot late 96-to 98 Period

[Rzerox21xx]

I been reading them and well you had Todd Dezago with great art by the late Mike Wieringo. JMD 2nd Spec stint with Luke Ross(back then he had a McFarland approach of doing Spidey poses), , all great stuff. and Tom Defalco with Steve Skorce/Bennet art. Howard Mackie Adjectiveless was obviously the weakest of the 4 but yeah Marvel had a good thing going before the reboot came which I dont get. were the sales that weak that marvel wanted do to do the reboot i heard nothing but good things on the Sensational and Spec side of things. there were strong story elements that still kept going like Flash Thompson fight with alcoholism in JMD stories, you have Stern coming back to do Hobgoblin for a miniseries and 1 final arc in Spec before the the Gathering. I just think it was a waste that reboot happened and made it, I mean i heard editorial control made a mess of things in the X-titles at the time like the Seagle Uncanny and Kelly Adjectiveless x-men. so it was that case in spiderman too?

[HypnoHustler]

It was a very strange and relatively quiet time for the Spidey books as they tried to re-establish Peter following the clone saga. Light, but a little aimless. There were a few semi-classics like Spec #250 (Osborn returns), ASM #425 (Spidey and X-Man take on Electro) and Peter Parker: Spider-Man #95 (Peter and Norman trapped in an elevator) and of course the whole ‘Spider-Hunt’ and ‘Identity Crisis’ arcs , but nothing I’d call a true classic. Looking back I have fond memories of most of the issues, but it was a brief period and not particularly memorable besides what I mentioned. It’s also hard to find many of those stories in any collections. While not particularly stand-out, it was certainly better than what followed it with that ‘Gathering of Five’ trash, Aunt May coming back, and then the whole reboot period. Ugh.

[Mister Mets]

I remember someone calling it the intermediate period.

It was solid, but not exceptional.

Every run was generally enjoyable, but there isn't any story I'd clearly rank in my Top 50.

[K7P5V]

I remember someone calling it the intermediate period.

It was solid, but not exceptional.

Every run was generally enjoyable, but there isn't any story I'd clearly rank in my Top 50.

Agreed. Initially, it was nice seeing Mr. & Mrs. Spidey return and be the main focus again.

With that said, the change in art on Spectacular from Sal Buscema to Luke Ross was jarring (to say the least).

[ngroove]

I miss J.M. Dematteis / Luke Ross Spectacular Spider-Man, and catching up to the chronicles of Grizzly and Gibbon, the Boy Monkey.

[Yvonmukluk]

Wasn't the plan at one point that Baby May would be recovered (with the hints bout Kaine, Alison Mongraine and such) before DeFalco got kicked off the book? I know Byrne was the one who demanded Aunt May back.

[jackolover]

It was a very strange and relatively quiet time for the Spidey books as they tried to re-establish Peter following the clone saga. Light, but a little aimless. There were a few semi-classics like Spec #250 (Osborn returns), ASM #425 (Spidey and X-Man take on Electro) and Peter Parker: Spider-Man #95 (Peter and Norman trapped in an elevator) and of course the whole ‘Spider-Hunt’ and ‘Identity Crisis’ arcs , but nothing I’d call a true classic. Looking back I have fond memories of most of the issues, but it was a brief period and not particularly memorable besides what I mentioned. It’s also hard to find many of those stories in any collections. While not particularly stand-out, it was certainly better than what followed it with that ‘Gathering of Five’ trash, Aunt May coming back, and then the whole reboot period. Ugh.

I liked that lazy-day feel to the period. Peter didn’t have all that angst anymore, and he had a lot of fun with the 4 new identities. It didn’t matter he had a price on his head, he was happy-go-lucky again. It was one of those periods where MJ and Peter could really unwind. Be happy.

Afterwards, what did Osborn get cursed with from the gathering? Did that ever get redressed afterwards?

[comicscollector]

Identity Crisis and Spider Hunt were interesting story arcs from that time.
The new renumbering of Amazing Spider-Man and Peter Parker Spectacular Spider-Man was the best visually speaking for the main Spider-Man comics during that time.John Byrne and John Romita Jr!
And story wise there were some great plots in Amazing Spider-Man as with the stories with the Black Tarantula a new character in stories of that time.
So it´s not as good as are many other of my favorites period of time of Spider-Man comics but still a period of time of stories that i am collecting from the Spider-Man comics.

[Knightsilver]

I liked that lazy-day feel to the period. Peter didn’t have all that angst anymore, and he had a lot of fun with the 4 new identities. It didn’t matter he had a price on his head, he was happy-go-lucky again. It was one of those periods where MJ and Peter could really unwind. Be happy.

Afterwards, what did Osborn get cursed with from the gathering? Did that ever get redressed afterwards?

I think it was madness.

[PCN24454]

Honestly, yes.

The stories I felt flowed much better than a lot of the post-2010 ones. That being said, the fact the I read the later ones first meant that I was kinda spoiled on what to expect.

[HypnoHustler]

I think it was madness.

Yes, it was madness. His fight and victory over Peter in ‘Final Chapter’ was completely imagined. Awful story.

His recovery was detailed in Roger Stern’s ‘Revenge of the Goblin’ 3-part mini. Basically he wore some patch which administered some kind of non-crazy drug into his system. The solution didn’t make much sense, but it was a dumb plot-line to begin with lol.