New Avengers continuity?

[BadAssMofo]

I need to know when is this current New Avengers storyline taking place? The reason I ask is because in the current Spider Man stories, especially Amazing Spider Man, Peter Parker is the darkest I've ever seen him. Due to Aunt May struggling to survive on her death bed. However, in New Avengers he's all quick with the jokes and in a great mood. What gives? Is Spider Man nuts?? Bi-polar to the 100th degree? It's getting really frustrating with these mismatched continuitys going on at the same time. It's really not making any sense.

Don't even get me started with the WWHulk deal. With all the NA trapped and at the Hulks mercy. In Amazing Spidey every second of every minute of the day Peter is worrying about his Auntie and hoping she makes it. Where does he have the time to deal with the Hulk, Skrulls, and now hundreds of Symbiotes. It seems to me that Spider Man and Wolverine (<----a whole nother fiasco) have triplets running around to feature in all these books. Clone saga?? Clone Wars?? Clone blah??

[gravling]

i just don't even think about continuity in the MU anymore, it's in a different place on nearly every title.

[XPac]

I need to know when is this current New Avengers storyline taking place? The reason I ask is because in the current Spider Man stories, especially Amazing Spider Man, Peter Parker is the darkest I've ever seen him. Due to Aunt May struggling to survive on her death bed. However, in New Avengers he's all quick with the jokes and in a great mood. What gives? Is Spider Man nuts?? Bi-polar to the 100th degree? It's getting really frustrating with these mismatched continuitys going on at the same time. It's really not making any sense.

Don't even get me started with the WWHulk deal. With all the NA trapped and at the Hulks mercy. In Amazing Spidey every second of every minute of the day Peter is worrying about his Auntie and hoping she makes it. Where does he have the time to deal with the Hulk, Skrulls, and now hundreds of Symbiotes. It seems to me that Spider Man and Wolverine (<----a whole nother fiasco) have triplets running around to feature in all these books. Clone saga?? Clone Wars?? Clone blah??

I believe other writers have said that Peter uses being an Avenger as a kind of escapism from his own real life problems.

But yeah, for a guy like Spiderman who has 3 on-going single titles a month plus a team book in addition to whatever cross over or die in he might be involed with, strict continuity can be very tough. Superman and Batman over on the DC end of things can often have the same problem. Wolverine these days really isn't that bad though.

[mattbib]

FYI...you're discussing "chronology", not "continuity".

[Kefky]

Save yourself the headache and enjoy the stories without worrying about it.

[Rich L]

Look at it this way: when Spidey's hanging out with the Avengers, he tries to forget about May and all the crap going on in his life so he's more lighthearted. It's like going to the pub and having a good time with some friends even when the rest of your life is in the crapper.

As for the chronology, IIRC there's an unspecified gap of a couple of weeks (how long the police report on May's shooting has been buried for) between ASM #542 & 543 so that lets all the other back in black and NA issues to fit in prior to One More Day:

Civil War #7/last few pages of ASM #538
Amazing Spider-Man #539 - 542 (BiB parts 1-4)
All the other Black Suit appearances, including Fallen Son, New Avengers, WWH and the Avengers: Initiative
Daredevil #93 (Kingpin out of jail)
ASM #543
ASM #544


Works for me.

[Crimson]

Plus Spidey's humour is also a defence mechanism... so the more jokes he makes can mean the more scared/worried he is. Depending on the writer of course.

[Rahul]

Yeha I was wondering how the hell Aunt May could have survived all that shifting in WWH. Oh well, gotta accept that in Commercial comics sometimes....

[StoneGold]

Works for me.

Pretty much. With longer storylines, it's all pretty much a horseshoes and handgrenades approach these days. But it's always been like this. Pete goes through the ringer in Amazing, but in Team-Up, he's care-free. It was never, ever the tightly wound, single continuity story some fans seem to think it was. Ever since ASM #1, when the second story calls him Peter Palmer.

[Shonuff]

Pretty much. With longer storylines, it's all pretty much a horseshoes and handgrenades approach these days. But it's always been like this. Pete goes through the ringer in Amazing, but in Team-Up, he's care-free. It was never, ever the tightly wound, single continuity story some fans seem to think it was. Ever since ASM #1, when the second story calls him Peter Palmer.

Yeah, things are no worse than what they use to be, if anything they're better, just back then there was no internet for large groups of people to bitch and whine about this stuff all the time on..

[StoneGold]

Yeah, things are no worse than what they use to be, if anything they're better, just back then there was no internet for large groups of people to bitch and whine about this stuff all the time on..

Meh, it can be a little worse, just because storylines have a tendency to be longer. But back in the day, there would still be stretches where Thor would be off in space or Asgard or whatever for a year at a time, and appearing in Avengers at the same time. I don't remember the exact period, but Busiek used to always bring it up.

The problem is that now most books are set up with Thor's schedule, so the windows where team books and guest appearances can occur are smaller.


You are dead-on about the Internet thing, though.

[togeteiku42]

you could say that since time in these comics progresses so slowely that its been like 40 50 years and its only been like 20 if that in comics that a day is actually a very long period of time that gives spider-man and wolverine enough time to run all over the place and be in every book possible all within the same time period.