Life Story#1 is the best issue, anything after it was whatever.
The way Peter started to become increasingly more asshole didn't help, the 90's issue had Otto doing a test that reveals Peter is the clone, so then Peter lets Ben take over the company, but then it's revealed that Peter did another test that confirmed he was the real one, so he decided to let Ben have the responsibility of being Spider-Man while he gets to live with MJ in the middle of nowhere.
There's also issue of making more than one story arc happen at once, like the 80's issue having symbiote related stuff at the same time as Kraven's Last Hunt, basically too much was happening in one issue at times.
Yeah I remember seeing some members here talking about Zdarsky's Spectacular being good, and I had dropped it after issue#4, and I was thinking "Are they really talking about that shitty comic I dropped?" Lol.
I feel like I can tolerated Bacalo's stuff after I checked out some Ultimate F4 issues that had an annoyingly high amount of issues where Greg Land was the artist... Felt dirty afterwards.
I have no idea what the hype about GDS was about, it was just alright.
I found Taylor's FNS to be kinda boring, I think the MJ issue was nice though.
I think he was watching Star Wars before starting his evil plans, heard Obi-Wan's "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine" and thought "Hey now there's an idea..."
Dunno what that voice's like, but it'd better be a sexy lady voice
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Sounds like the 90's curse.
Yeah, it's specially funny since both times it was a Norman learning it lol.
Spectacular#297 kinda suggests this:
"He just seemed so..."
At the end of the day, Spidey is an emotional character, he ends up doing possibly dumb things because he feels that it's right, and then may end up thinking afterwards "Should I have done that?", so that seems to be the case with JJ, he saw that he was still consummed by hate and thought this could end it, can be said that it's a dumb decision pragmatically speaking, but again, Spidey's more of an emotional character.