Recommend Spider-Man Stories For Straczynski Fan

[techvoodoo]

Got back into collecting recently after not having been in the hobby since I a kid back in 1996. Picked up the Straczynski run of ASM vol.2 starting at issue #30 today and I'm really enjoying it. I have a bad feeling I'm going to be measuring all the future ASM issues against these and I don't know if they will measure up. I hope they will.

The only other Spider-man I've read since starting up the collection again was the Mcfarlane Spider-man Series. Torment wasn't great but I enjoyed the 10 or so issues that followed Torment fairly well.

Any other gems I should be looking forward to?

[Codah]

Got back into collecting recently after not having been in the hobby since I a kid back in 1996. Picked up the Straczynski run of ASM vol.2 starting at issue #30 today and I'm really enjoying it. I have a bad feeling I'm going to be measuring all the future ASM issues against these and I don't know if they will measure up. I hope they will.

The only other Spider-man I've read since starting up the collection again was the Mcfarlane Spider-man Series. Torment wasn't great but I enjoyed the 10 or so issues that followed Torment fairly well.

Any other gems I should be looking forward to?

People are going to recommend whole runs for you but I'll say this: Please read the Gauntlet, Grim Hunt and Fear Itself Spider-Man. If you're going in order it'll take a while but definitely read these. It was the last bastion of really amazing Spider-Man before Slott.

[Memphis Raines]

ASM 600 and Big Time.

[Mister Mets]

Kraven's Last Hunt is pretty damn good, and some hallucinations take a slightly different meaning after the totem saga.

[Kevin Nichols]

I would recommend JMS's entire run. It was brilliant. It had low points, of course, just like any run. But taken in total, it was just greatness. I didn't care for 'The Other' so much, but that was mainly because it was too long. It did have some good parts to it.

[rastafarian42]

I'm not sure if Until the Stars turn Cold is in that Volume but i suggest that by JMS, it got me into buying comics in general.

[Mister Mets]

Incidentally, if you're a fan of JMS's Spider-Man, I'd recommend some of his other comics work.

Midnight Nation is an excellent horror story.
His Brave and the Bold is an anthology of DC team-ups that have often been quite clever.
Supreme Power is an exceptional mature readers take on how superheroes would affect the world, focusing on many DC tropes.

[witchboy]

I think Brand New Day was a good read, and it does kick off the era. And this is coming from someone who hates OMD and the Devil annullment.

[Chris S.]

Read all of JMS' run. I thought it was good right up until Spider-Man joined the New Avengers.

If you enjoyed McFarlane than I would go back and read all his stuff on Amazing too. It is all the early 300s. People think the writer, Michelinie, wasn't that great, but I think his stuff around this time period was pretty good.