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!
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06-08-2009, 06:27 PM #1New Member
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Where To Start??
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06-08-2009, 06:32 PM #2Veteran Member
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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.
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06-08-2009, 06:33 PM #3Member
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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.
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06-08-2009, 06:34 PM #4Robin Graves
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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.
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06-08-2009, 06:39 PM #5Spider-man/DCU Moderator
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id start with the New Ways To Die trade paper back..... but if you mean more of a right now... American Son part 1.
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06-08-2009, 06:49 PM #6Robin Graves
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How much of Spider-Man has been collected into trades between One More Day-Present?
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06-08-2009, 06:53 PM #7Veteran Member
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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.
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06-08-2009, 06:55 PM #8Veteran Member
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Death and Dating is the most recent release, containing 578-583, and the 2008 Annual.
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06-08-2009, 07:54 PM #9Junior Member
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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
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06-08-2009, 09:45 PM #10Member
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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.
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06-08-2009, 09:53 PM #11Senior Member
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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!!
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06-08-2009, 10:45 PM #12New Member
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awesome! Thanx for all ur help
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06-09-2009, 12:00 AM #13Reaper of the Dead
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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
and i felt comfortable reading it and not too much in the deep end.
Hope all goes well mate.
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