I understand that from time to time you enjoy making meta plotlines that involve about 5 different titles. I can’t say I like those but I don’t really mind them to much. But is to hard to make sure that if you start a plotline in comic A that you don’t take it to comic B? If you start off with part 1 in Amazing Spider-Man #12 then for Christ’s sake finish it in Amazing Spider-Man #13 not in Peter Parker #13.
I understand that you’re just trying to get me to buy all the Spider-Man titles. Well you know what? It isn’t going to work.
Marc
PS: Yeah, I know this was a really lame rant. I’m apologize to all those who enjoy a good rant.
The Thousand is (I think) over. Ultimate isn’t connected, it’s sort of the “Earth 2” Spider-Man and doesn’t cross over at all (yet…give it 3 years and if it’s still around, you’re gonna see a cover with both Spideys swinging on opposite sides of a brick wall trying to rescue a construction worker “Spider-Man of Two Worlds”. You mark my words!)
Peter Parker and Amazing no longer cross-over on a regular basis (the guy who did Bablyon 5 just took over the writing chores on Amazing).
Not a big fan of Marvel/DC comics. I’ve got a couple of the better Batman collections (Frank Miller, Alan Moore) but I mostly stay away from men in tights.
So, what’s the difference between the two? Is he only Peter Parker in the Parker comic? If so, what’s the interest in it? How can you have two comic series about the same guy without constant crossovers?
I’ll be back for my answers later…<looks around furtivly> Same bat-time, same bat-channel! <runs>
The Thousand is actually the three part part story line for the new Spider-Man comic called Tangled Web. Tangled Web is suppose to put a little more focus on all the people in New York who are affected by Spider-Man’s actions. For example in the upcoming issue #4 we find out what happens to one of Kingpin’s henchman who was in charge of an operation Spider-Man foiled.
Sheesh, complaining about crossovers within one hero’s titles? Good thing you weren’t around for the Secret Wars, you would’ve spontaneously combusted…
The Dark Knight Returns is one of my all time favorite mini series. I hear he’s making a sequel but I’m not really looking forward to it. I really liked where he ended it last time.
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There are different story lines in the two comics. Usually if someone happens in one comic book it will have some effect on the other. For example Mary Jane left Peter Parker in the last Annual and she’s gone in both series.
What I really don’t like is having a story line start in one comic book series and jump to another one. The Bat related comics are guilty of this on a regular basis. When Jim Gordon was shot they had a meta plot called “Officer Down” and to get the complete story you had to buy Detective Comics, Batman, Nightwing, Robin, and Birds of Prey, and Batman: Gotham Knights.
I’d complain about the opposite - not just because it makes it easier to cause continuity glitches, but because individual titles are monthly, but if it’s spread across all the character’s titles it’s weekly or biweekly, depending on the character.
Gotta agree with the OP. Part of what’s kept me out of the comic stores is that Batman’s had all these HUGE story arcs. Part of me wants to read “Contagion” and “No Man’s Land” and the others but I just don’t want to hang on for a year for the story. I tried to do that for “Long Halloween” and couldn’t keep up after the very first issue. I finally got the collected TPB last year but I’m not gonna spend the money on the others.
That’s what I liked about the “Legends of the Dark Knight” title - no continuity, just a series of one-shot stories. They might span, at most, four issues. Plus they had good writing and great artwork. Is this title still running and is it still as good as when it started?
For the most part, I agree with you about meta storylines, except in the case of the Onslaught series. I dunno how many people here read it, but it took place about 4 years ago, involved just about every single character in the Marvel Universe, and had a spectacular finale that completely effected the every comic Marvel put out. Amazing.
But, while metas work for huge, expansive, world-shaking plots, crossover series for every dinky storyling the writers can think up get annoying.
That is why I will now suggest the greatest comic ever made: Deadpool. Completely self-contained, and the most twistedly funny hero Marvel’s ever made. It has me in absolute hysterics everytime I read of it, and only has one title, so crossovers ain’t no thang.
WHAT!!?! WTF was Marvel thinking?!? I need to smack those writers! Of course, i quit buying the comic around Amazing #400, the one with the spider clone/scarlet spider fiasco and Aunt May dying. Writing that bad deserved the loss of my revenue. I have no clue what is going on now, Aunt May was in one of the comics i saw yesterday, and there is a
Spider-girl running around, and every comic got restarted or something, and i got lost in the shuffle. Does anyone know what is up with the Marvel Universe?
This is the very reason I stopped reading X-Men comics very shortly after I started.
I would be whistling through Uncanny X-Men or whatever the hell it was called and on the last page it tells me that it will be continued in Wolverine #36 or some shit and even if I did bother to go find that particular issue, then I’ll have to go get Generation X #14 and Cable #9 and then some fucking Fantastic Four asswipe will show up and pretty soon I find myself reading some shitty book about a skeleton who rides a motorcycle while his head is on fire or something and just wonder how the hell I ended up there…