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Hanzo the Razor
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Post subject: Hey Monk! Best Spider-Man Stories Since Brand New Day Began? Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 4:14 pm |
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Ancient Alien Theorist
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Just curious... and you're our resident Spider-Fan. 
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Night Owl
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Post subject: Hey Monk! Best Spider-Man Stories Since Brand New Day Began? Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 5:28 pm |
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Somebody wake Monk up. I would really like to know the answer to this.
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Li'l Jay
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Post subject: Hey Monk! Best Spider-Man Stories Since Brand New Day Began? Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 5:29 pm |
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It scorched
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FWIW, I liked the Juggernaut story Roger Stern did.
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Night Owl
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Post subject: Hey Monk! Best Spider-Man Stories Since Brand New Day Began? Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 5:31 pm |
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I've heard that the Spider Island stories are good. Monk?
MONK!
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Junkie Luv
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Post subject: Hey Monk! Best Spider-Man Stories Since Brand New Day Began? Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 5:44 pm |
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As dull and repetitive as they are
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Steve
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Post subject: Hey Monk! Best Spider-Man Stories Since Brand New Day Began? Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 5:54 pm |
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What do you call a camel with three humps?
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I'll answer for him. Anything from Big Time onward (all by Dan Slott) is fantastic, as that starts a new beginning in the story and is very easily followed with minimal crossovers.
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Night Owl
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Post subject: Hey Monk! Best Spider-Man Stories Since Brand New Day Began? Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 5:56 pm |
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Does Monk have one of those rules about answering a question directed to him before he gets a chance to answer?
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Post subject: Hey Monk! Best Spider-Man Stories Since Brand New Day Began? Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 6:58 pm |
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I love Spider-Man since one more day. I wasn't thrilled with the marriage being retconned but...i prefer single Spidey.
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Post subject: Hey Monk! Best Spider-Man Stories Since Brand New Day Began? Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 9:05 pm |
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Dendritic Oscillating Ontological Tesseract
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Monk has taken a vow of silence.
See what I did there?
Because "Monk."
Get it?
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Simon
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Post subject: Hey Monk! Best Spider-Man Stories Since Brand New Day Began? Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 10:50 pm |
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Everything written since Ben Reilly died in a puff of smoke has been heresy.
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Monk
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Post subject: Hey Monk! Best Spider-Man Stories Since Brand New Day Began? Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 12:19 am |
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"Brand New Day" - Slott/McNiven "Sometimes It Snows In Winter", etc - Wells/Bachalo "Paparazzi" - Slott/Martin "Kraven's First Hunt" - Guggenheim/Jimenez "New Ways To Die" - Slott/JRjr "Family Ties" - Kelly/Bachalo "Old Huntin' Buddies" - Wells/Rivera "Unscheduled Stop" - Waid/Martin "Character Assassination" - Guggenheim/JRjr "24/7" - Waid/McKone This link here has issue numbers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Th ... er_2010.29There's some later stuff that's also been really good (since Slott took over as sole writer). Generally, if you avoid anything written by Bob Gale it's a solid run of Spider-Man stories. If it involves Marcos Martin, Dan Slott, Mark Waid, Joe Kelly, Zeb Wells, JRjr, or Chris Bachalo it's really good.,
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Steve
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Post subject: Hey Monk! Best Spider-Man Stories Since Brand New Day Began? Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 12:21 am |
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What do you call a camel with three humps?
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I really like the Flash Thompson stuff in the post-Big Time era that leads into the Venom series, which is also really good.
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Monk
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Post subject: Hey Monk! Best Spider-Man Stories Since Brand New Day Began? Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 12:28 am |
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Post subject: Hey Monk! Best Spider-Man Stories Since Brand New Day Began? Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 9:16 am |
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The Modfather; Wizard of WAN
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I dislike the Joe Kelly stuff but otherwise I agree with Monk (at least as much of it as I've read; mostly fell away from new comics in the last year).
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Hanzo the Razor
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Post subject: Hey Monk! Best Spider-Man Stories Since Brand New Day Began? Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 10:12 am |
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Maybe I'll check out the JR JR and Martin stuff, since I'd be guaranteed to at least like the art.
Thanks, Matt!
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Steve
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Post subject: Hey Monk! Best Spider-Man Stories Since Brand New Day Began? Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 10:15 am |
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What do you call a camel with three humps?
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The Juggernaut arc by Stern and Weeks is really good. Especially if you read the classic one that's a prequel to this.
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Mahoney
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Post subject: Hey Monk! Best Spider-Man Stories Since Brand New Day Began? Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 2:02 pm |
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The Sandman story stood out to me
So if you can find The Gauntlet, Book 1: Electro and Sandman
Which has this plus some others
612 - [Waid/Paul Azaceta] "Power to the People" Part 1: Electro 613 - [Waid/Azaceta] "Power to the People" Part 2 614 - [Waid/Azaceta] "Power to the People" Part 3 615 - [Van Lente/Javier Pulido] "Keemia's Castle" Part 1 616 - [Van Lente/Pulido] "Keemia's Castle" Part 2: Sandman
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Hanzo the Razor
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Post subject: Hey Monk! Best Spider-Man Stories Since Brand New Day Began? Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 2:08 pm |
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BTW, what is the premise to "The Gauntlet"? I found it odd that some storyline was spread out over 5 TPBs.
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Post subject: Hey Monk! Best Spider-Man Stories Since Brand New Day Began? Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 2:13 pm |
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Spider-man goes up individually with his rogues gallery. I don't recall them connected, other than thematically him facing his classic enemies.
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Hanzo the Razor
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Post subject: Hey Monk! Best Spider-Man Stories Since Brand New Day Began? Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 2:21 pm |
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Monk wrote: "Brand New Day" - Slott/McNiven "Sometimes It Snows In Winter", etc - Wells/Bachalo "Paparazzi" - Slott/Martin "Kraven's First Hunt" - Guggenheim/Jimenez "New Ways To Die" - Slott/JRjr "Family Ties" - Kelly/Bachalo "Old Huntin' Buddies" - Wells/Rivera "Unscheduled Stop" - Waid/Martin "Character Assassination" - Guggenheim/JRjr "24/7" - Waid/McKone Matt, sorry -- I finally got a chance to look at some of these and see what issues are in them and I have everything from the beginning of Brand New Day through... uh... somewhere between #608 - #610. The weekly schedule was just way too much for me at that point and I think I actually stopped reading the issues around #600 or #601... I didn't think it was bad but I tend to let piles build up and read them in one go -- at the weekly rate, Spidey was building up too fast for me to keep up. What about after that point? It looks like that's when all the Gauntlet business took over. (BTW, the weekly thing is nuts -- I briefly thought about catching up in floppies but see the book's all the way up to #689!!!)
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Steve
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Post subject: Hey Monk! Best Spider-Man Stories Since Brand New Day Began? Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 3:11 pm |
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What do you call a camel with three humps?
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Best to skip all that -- as it's not really in continuity anymore (well, it is, but it's not being referred to) and just start with Big Time. That's what I did.
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Hanzo the Razor
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Post subject: Hey Monk! Best Spider-Man Stories Since Brand New Day Began? Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 3:21 pm |
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Wait, what? Why isn't it in continuity?
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