Flights of Fantasy 50: Spiderman clone

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deadpan

- 2012-10-17

Oh god, George Wood had correspondents.

Skip to 1:28 for a primer on 90s comic book human anatomy.

sosage

- 2012-10-17

So I have to read issues 201, 202 and 203 of The Amazing Spider-Man, then 52, 53 and 54 of just Spider-Man...then 1, 2 and 3 of The Uncanny Spider-Man, then 24, 25, 26 of The Amazing Spider-Man, but only if I read issues 78, 89 and 101 of Clone Spider-Man Wars...but the story won't make sense without Spider-Man: Teen Idol 15, 19, 22, 34 and 35B, not 35A. When you've read all of those, the story ends with Peter Parker waking up realizing it was all just a dream. If you want more backstory though, read 89, 90, 91, 95, 102 and 113 of The Real Spider-Man, where his dream is actually reality...except there is a time travel mishap, so you better read...etc, etc, etc.

Xenocide - 2012-10-17

Gee, I wonder why kids don't read comics anymore.

Koda Maja - 2012-10-17

So pretty much standard Marvel operating procedure.

Rudy

- 2012-10-17

I chalked it up to lack of live action holodisks.

Kabbage

- 2012-10-17

I actually... now that I think about it, the Clone Saga was the exact point where I stopped ready comics. I didn't really ever start again, save for Agent X and a couple DMZ's.

I wonder how common this was.

deadpan - 2012-10-17

Yeah, this was the storyline where I gave up on comics as a teen as well. They managed to take one of the most-relatable and likable superheroes and just bury him in an endless maze of nonsense.

Old_Zircon - 2012-10-17

I like comics, but even in grade school (in the 80s) I couldn't understand the appeal of superhero comics.

chumbucket

- 2012-10-17

Superheros tended to be dull to me. I went for more like Sgt Rock, The 'Nam, Creepy Tales, Eerie, Tales From The Crypt. I still have a ton of that in the basement.

I could probably fall asleep to this guy's summary lists to the meandering guitar riffs.

Riskbreaker

- 2012-10-17

Even the bible takes less time to read.

Old_Zircon - 2012-10-17

Yeah, EC, Peter Bagge, older Crumb and Bloom County were what really did it for me as a tween. Oh, and pre-Simpsons Matt Groening. My best friend and I were kind of obsessed with Life In Hell in 6th and 7th grade. Later on I discovered The Magic Whistle and Jim Woodring and more recently the original, mid 70s run of Howard The Duck.

Closest thing to a superhero comic I was much into was Reid Fleming. The Marvel and DC stuff just seemed really pedantic and felt like the same things happened over and over in slightly different form. I didn't even like the Superman movies that much as a kid. Enjoyed them but never felt like rewatching them.

Old_Zircon - 2012-10-17

Oh, and the 60s/70s magazine-format horror comics like Creepy were always fun when I found one at a yard sale or something.

Xenocide

- 2012-10-17

Spidercide.

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