I wonder what you think of in regards of Amazing Spider-Man shipping three times a week. With a different creative crew handling chores the next week. Basically, one creative team picking up the story of the team before them.

Personally I think it sucks. This so reminds me of the 90’s Superman books. Where the books had a continuing story, yet the creative team was different each issue.

And this happened a lot in the 90’s with comic books. I  think in the last few years , especially  for the trade paperback market.  We the readers WANT TO SEE, a stable creative team handling one book uninterrupted.

A revolving team handling the same story makes for a disjointed feel. And the flow is made all jagged as a result.

The end quality work is a mix of good and bad, the narrative seems off and the books feel is not smooth at all.

I hope this Amazing Spider-Man idea is dropped soon. Make a new series and keep a stable crew in each book. And make them tell different stories without one being tied to the other.

What’s next? Will we have a big crossover and the usual revolving door artist take over if a book is behind schedule?

Rob

Is anyone else catching the Animated Spectacular Spider-Man series? It’s quite good and worth a look. Not only is the animation nice, but the stories are gel real well and they have a continuity, where one story element leads to a future story down the line.

I might go so far as to say in recent times, it’s the best Spidey series to date. I liked the early 90’s cartoon, but there were so many stories in that series I didn’t like. I was never a fan of Morbius and yet huge plots revolved around him. Or they had the Forgotten Warriors multi-part epic and things of that sort. Basically, a bunch of episodes, story wise I could not get into.

And the MTV one of a few years ago, wasn’t anything really special. No wonder it was canceled so quickly.

But the Spectacular Spider-Man is doing a great job so far, and check it out if you can.

I have a DVR which is basically Tivo, and I just program it to tape all the episodes.

And speaking of which, if you don’t have a DVR type device, you might look into getting one. Until I had it, I didn’t realize how much easier it makes viewing your favorite shows.

I think we are living in the Golden Age when it comes to comic books, or related properties in live action films.

Never before has it happened, like in the past few years, where there are films based on comic book concepts.

Just go to the big screen and what do you see in the playing now board?

Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four and now Iron Man and the Hulk.

As well as films on smaller comic book publishers, such as the vampire horror called 30 Days of Night.

Comic book related material is popping up all over the film industry.

And that’s not even counting animated features, or things going direct to DVD or a television show based on such material.

It’s a good time for comic books in other media. While the Spidey movies may be wrapped up for now. Or going in a new direction.

The animated Spectacular Spider-Man is a great series. And it is put together much better then I thought it would. I’m glad to see it took it’s source material from the main Spider-Man books, and not the Ultimate Spider-Man books.

And it’s great to see the Big Man as a top character for once and I hope the big reveal of who it is, is the same guy from the comic world.