Finale from Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man #310 turns five.

[Batman Begins 2005]

Released on the 26th of September 2018, the final issue of Chip Zdarsky's run on the book and what a way to go out. An instant classic both funny, moving and sums up the essence of Peter Parker/Spider-Man. It's in my top five Spider-Man comics of all time. A masterpiece. Chip Zdarsky both wrote and illustrated this which deservedly won an Eisner. Let's celebrate this issue and for those who have yet to read it, you must.

[Daibhidh]

Yes.
I feel Kyle ought to be mentioned alongside Gwen Stacy and Jean DeWolffe et al when the subject of people Peter has lost comes up.

[PCN24454]

I read the book really didn’t understand the hype.

[Daibhidh]

I read the book really didn’t understand the hype.

It's a Spider-man loses story, but it's done well - there isn't anything obvious that Peter could have done better. It's thought-provoking and moving. It treats Peter as a responsible person and a hero who does his best. Even as it tells a story of Spider-man losing, it doesn't limit Peter to that.

[Alan2099]

It wasn't an outstanding issue, but it was a good one.

[HypnoHustler]

It’s good, but I actually prefer Slott’s final ASM issue that came out around the same time (and I’m a HUGE critic of Slott’s run in general, but his bookend was great).

[wleakr]

It’s good, but I actually prefer Slott’s final ASM issue that came out around the same time (and I’m a HUGE critic of Slott’s run in general, but his bookend was great).

Agreed. Preferred Amazing Spider-man 801, which as an added benefit had Marcos Martin on art!

[IamnotJudasTraveller]

It's a pretty nice story, but I think it suffers from literally two contemporary competitors at the same time - Slott's "curtain call" as it were, then Zdarky's, then Tom Taylor's Spider-Mite issue. They're all perfectly fine in their own, but they clearly also all read as attempts for an 'evergreen' Spidey story dealing with the weight of his iconic status and sort of playing in the same lane as "The Kid Who Collected Spider-Man" as a result of focusing of ordinary lives touched by Spider-Man's actions.

If each of those existed in more of a vacuum, they'd likely all have very good chances of becoming emblematic of a period when they were pushed and bona-fide classics. Since they all came in short order, they sort of blur together despite all being very solid offerings.

[HypnoHustler]

Can we repurpose the term “Oscar bait” as Eisner bait for these kind of comics?

[Alex_Of_X]

It’s good, but I actually prefer Slott’s final ASM issue that came out around the same time (and I’m a HUGE critic of Slott’s run in general, but his bookend was great).

im right there with you

In a just world, "every day Spidey saves someone's uncle" would be printed on every piece of merchandise

[phonogram12]

Released on the 26th of September 2018, the final issue of Chip Zdarsky's run on the book and what a way to go out. An instant classic both funny, moving and sums up the essence of Peter Parker/Spider-Man. It's in my top five Spider-Man comics of all time. A masterpiece. Chip Zdarsky both wrote and illustrated this which deservedly won an Eisner. Let's celebrate this issue and for those who have yet to read it, you must.

Yeah, this is probably one of the best Spider-Man stories I have ever read.

[CrimsonEchidna]

It’s good, but I actually prefer Slott’s final ASM issue that came out around the same time (and I’m a HUGE critic of Slott’s run in general, but his bookend was great).

See that's kind of apples and oranges for me because Slott's finale was the wrap up of a near decade run and what made that finale stand out is that for all the serial escalation that occured (from your Spider-Island, to your Superior to tyour Spider-Verse, to your Billionaire pseudo-spy Peter Parker) the final issue was a quiet back to basics one.

[HypnoHustler]

See that's kind of apples and oranges for me because Slott's finale was the wrap up of a near decade run and what made that finale stand out is that for all the serial escalation that occured (from your Spider-Island, to your Superior to tyour Spider-Verse, to your Billionaire pseudo-spy Peter Parker) the final issue was a quiet back to basics one.

I don’t see it that way. They were both self-contained human interest (or “person on the street”) stories that focused more on his interactions with the civilians around him, and the ripple effects of that. I found them both very similar actually.