CuriousOyster wrote:That does sound really good, ive got the whole of Spider Island from two runs ago just started
just going to skip the rest in between to Dying Wish - which I read at the time after not following for a while. Superior was so good.
Also have the last volume #1 - # 20.1 which ends in 'Spiral' sitting to read and then the first two of this latest run too. Is it up to about #18? Used to buy ASM (and comics in general) religiously but never in town anymore so lose track/interest.
Superior was Ace, this is the aftermath of that basically. It's cool to think that Parker is now able to do so much more for the world with his power due to Octavious.
Slott has put in a little FU to Marvel by having Parker Industries HQ located in the Baxter Building with a memorial for the Fantastic Four.
The last few issues he has crossed over with Iron Man and that story was not so good, but otherwise Parker is not really involved with the rest of the Marvel universe, he works with Nick Fury Jr, Prowler and Mockingbird with occasional appearances from Johnny Storm, otherwise I think Slott is left to his own devices with ASM whilst Miles takes Parker's place in terms of interacting with the rest of the Marvel Universe.
Also Miguel works for Parker Industries and Parker has made him a new kick ass suit.
captain red dog wrote:It seems absolutely crazy to me to keep changing these characters just to check certain diversity boxes. It would be far better to create a new generation of titles.
To me it comes across as slightly racist with the lack of thought that seems to go into diversifying their line up. Its literally "ok let's turn Thor into a woman and make iron man a black woman".
The current management of Marvel Comic sounds like it would make a cracking sitcom.
They should have handled the other changes the way the Spider books have done. Sure have a teenager female as Iron Man, but have Stark out there in his own books doing something different. Same with Thor, Cap and everyone else who has been replaced.
At the moment there are very few adult Marvel heroes kicking about, it's mostly about the younger generation so why not have them in their own stories and have the older incarnations off on different stories dealing with different problems. I don't think the people at the top in Marvel realise that a lot of their readership are people who grew up with these characters, it's why I really appreciate Peter Parker's current role in this universe, he is probably my age now and his stories are now much bigger in scope than they ever were whilst he was confined to New York.
Sam Cap is actually pretty awesome and is a lot more interesting than Steve Rogers ( I say that as a huge Steve Rogers fan ).