Where To Start??

[n10city35]

If I'm jus getting back into amazing spider-man, where do I start?? I've read civil war, and I've heard about a few things that have happened up until dark reign, but where would a good "pick up and start here" issue be? Thanks for anyone that helps!

[Matt Linton]

Amazing Spider-Man #595 is the first part of "American Son", which ties into Dark Reign. It's fairly new-reader friendly. If you want to go further back you could pick up the Amazing Spider-Man: Brand New Day trade, which started the current direction in the book. Or you could wait until Amazing Spider-Man #600, which is over 100 pages for (I think) $4.99, and is being billed as a jumping on point.

[BloodOps]

Like Matt Linton said starting at #595 would be your best bet as it is the beginning of American Son and so far has been very very good. Beginning of one of the best Spider-Man stories in a while.

[zur en arrh]

Like the other guys have stated, 595 is a great jump on point. Not only is it very good so far, it's right at the beginning of a 5 part story.

[ShaggyB]

id start with the New Ways To Die trade paper back..... but if you mean more of a right now... American Son part 1.

[zur en arrh]

How much of Spider-Man has been collected into trades between One More Day-Present?

[Matt Linton]

Looks like everything up to #583 or 584. The next one to be released is the Election Day hardcover, with ASM #584-588 and some ASM Extra stuff.

[Matt Linton]

Death and Dating is the most recent release, containing 578-583, and the 2008 Annual.

[Themasething]

I'd suggest starting from the beginning of Brand New Day and working your way up from there if you want to grab trades. If you want to start from a single issue standpoint, then I'd agree with the others and go with #595 - American Son Part 1

[CaptainOtter]

I started with New Ways to Die, and I feel I havnt missed much of anything. I also feel like you can jump in at almost any point and understand most of whats going on. Start with the beginning of this current arc, and I think youll be set.

[Maestro]

Brand New Day Vol. 1 and New Ways to Die is what you need... track down the remaining Dan Slott issues too. and be sure to buy Amazing Spider-Man #600 next month!!

[n10city35]

awesome! Thanx for all ur help

[DeathDealerNex]

Like the others said, #595 is a good jumping on point, i've only just started reading marvel comics and thats the first one i've read :biggrin: and i felt comfortable reading it and not too much in the deep end.

Hope all goes well mate.