Quote Originally Posted by gantz View Post
AvX is just poorly written and that is truly depressing for an event that is crucial to tie up loose ends, provide some kind of resolution for the past 4-5 years etc.

It seems the artist and writers just have no passion about it what so ever - with JRJR phoned in art, comments like Hickmans 'yeah last time we saw Hope, she was running out of an electronics store, but now she has jet plane, and Im not sure what issue, if at all, that got covered in, it keeps getting bigger and bigger and only the editors can keep track of it all.'
The X-Men have managed to sit out most of the big Marvel crossovers (except for the odd tie-in miniseries) but obviously not this one. I'm not hearing much good about the main story, although some of the tie-ins are okay, just a mess of continuity.

It annoys me that this new status quo change comes just a year after the last one (Schism). I'm generally sick of Marvel's yearly events though.

Quote Originally Posted by Hursticon View Post
I'm probably going to offend a number of people with this , but I picked this up a little over a month ago for $20 at Big W:

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Spider-man is my favourite Super Hero , but I'm ashamed to say that most of my knowledge of him comes from the 90s Cartoon show ; I'd very much like to start reading some actual comics and have been recommended the "Maximum Carnage" Arc thanks to Bartrim , but sadly and annoyingly I've got an ever increasing list of Books that I own but have yet to read and fear that any Spider-man reading would likely be a long ways off.
I saw that book the other day and thought it looked pretty good. I was trying to think of what Spider-Man's stories to recommend. I liked the recent "Spider-Island" story (so much so I'm using a pic from it as my facebook photo at the moment), and apparently Amazing Spider-Man's been quite good since Dan Slott took over as sole author.

I do recommend the original Ultimate Spider-Man series. I didn't like the ending (tied into a big dumb Ultimate Universe crossover) but it was a book I always looked forward to getting the next trade of.