A former poster here referred to the two years between the Clone Saga and before the 1998 Mackie/ Byrne relaunch as the intermediate era, and I think it's a good name.
In about two weeks I'm going to start a read-through. I had some fun last year checking out Nick Spencer's run, and this summer I got caught up with Wells & co. In a few days, I'll get to a logical stop point with the combination of this year's Amazing Spider-Man annual, the super-sized Amazing Spider-Man #31 and the super-sized Spider-Man #11.
This time I'm going to go with older material. I was thinking about the aftermath of Secret Wars, the marriage, the Clone Saga (or Maximum Carnage), the Relaunch, Quesada making his mark as EIC or Brand New Day as start-points. The intermediate era just made the most sense. I've read most of the comics, but not in a particularly organized way and so much of the Clone Saga and relaunch is kinda bad, while other eras build on earlier runs (Wells & Slott had written Spider-Man before Brand New Day, Michelinie had a stint on Web of Spider-Man before coming to Amazing Spider-Man.) It feels like an underexplored stretch of Spider-Man comics.
Do any of you have any thoughts about this time period?