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The Amazing Spider-Man (2014) (Collected Editions) #2-4
The Amazing Spider-Man by Dan Slott, Vol. 2
The Spider-Verse is here! When the Inheritors begin exterminating spider-characters throughout the multiverse, every single Spider-Man ever is needed to save the day! A spider-army gathers, including Miles Morales, Spider-Gwen, Silk, Spider-Woman, Mayday Parker, Kaine, Ben Reilly, Spider-Man 2099, Spider-Ham and scores more...but how can they defeat Morlun's deadly family when Peter faces a power struggle against a ghost from his past: Doctor Octopus, the Superior Spider-Man?!
COLLECTING: Amazing Spider-Man 7-18, Superior Spider-Man 32-33, Free Comic Book Day 2014 (Guardians of the Galaxy) 1 (Spider-Man story)
COLLECTING: Amazing Spider-Man 7-18, Superior Spider-Man 32-33, Free Comic Book Day 2014 (Guardians of the Galaxy) 1 (Spider-Man story)
352 pages, Hardcover
First published April 19, 2016
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Dan Slott
1,996 books451 followersDan Slott is an American comic book writer, the current writer on Marvel Comics' The Amazing Spider-Man, and is best known for his work on books such as Arkham Asylum: Living Hell, She-Hulk, Silver Surfer, The Superior Spider-Man, and Ren & Stimpy.
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September 6, 2017
This collection is darker than I expected in a Spider-Man title. Marvel exists in a multiverse. Across infinite parallel universes, Spider-Man has evolved slightly differently. But there is a totem-hunting vampiric clan who can travel across space and time. They are killing these multi-verse Spider-Mans as well as anyone who tries to get in their way. The deaths are brutal.
Writer Dan Slott's mini stories from the Free Comic Book Day are spaced as interstitial episodes between the main Amazing/Superior Spider-Man issues. These mini stories are white-knuckled reads as each one details another assault on a multiverse Spider-Man. The Spider-Girl episode was particularly heartbreaking. These stories are like obsidian shards: extremely dark but beautifully polished.
Between these mini stories, Superior Spider-Man races across the multiverse trying to reach the multiverse's Spider-Men before these creatures kill them. Perhaps an army of Spider-Men can stand together against an unweilding and merciless enemy?
The Spider-Verse Prelude gives readers all the material they need for the main event. Please note that all the issues collected here are also collected in the main event collection: Spider-Verse. That said, I thoroughly enjoyed this collection, and I look forward to the main event.
Writer Dan Slott's mini stories from the Free Comic Book Day are spaced as interstitial episodes between the main Amazing/Superior Spider-Man issues. These mini stories are white-knuckled reads as each one details another assault on a multiverse Spider-Man. The Spider-Girl episode was particularly heartbreaking. These stories are like obsidian shards: extremely dark but beautifully polished.
Between these mini stories, Superior Spider-Man races across the multiverse trying to reach the multiverse's Spider-Men before these creatures kill them. Perhaps an army of Spider-Men can stand together against an unweilding and merciless enemy?
The Spider-Verse Prelude gives readers all the material they need for the main event. Please note that all the issues collected here are also collected in the main event collection: Spider-Verse. That said, I thoroughly enjoyed this collection, and I look forward to the main event.
November 18, 2019
3.5 stars
This contains the main story line of Spider Verse, but to get the whole story, you have to read the compilation of Spider-Verse by multiple authors. Overall, I enjoyed it, though I'm not familiar with a lot of the different iterations of Spider-man.
This contains the main story line of Spider Verse, but to get the whole story, you have to read the compilation of Spider-Verse by multiple authors. Overall, I enjoyed it, though I'm not familiar with a lot of the different iterations of Spider-man.
January 1, 2017
Dan Slott does it again, proves that he is the Superior Spiderman... writer. This Volume was especially enjoyable with many great artist, and a wonderful story about the spiderverse and all different versions of spidey. One of the coolest things artistically done in this book was the addition of the Ultimate Spiderman from the cartoon showed up and he was colored and detailed separately from the other Spidermen, it both made him stand out, and yet he blended in well with the rest of them. Overall the story was amazing, and Slott is really a master of the spidey banter I give it 5 Spiderhams of 5
December 22, 2020
Very uneven collection for me. Loved the previous arc by Slott. He's done my favorite Spider-Man stories to date. This one, I did not care for as much, except for the last few at the end that set-up the new Black Cat storyline (I look forward to more of that).
All of the Spider Verse stuff was too much craziness for me, with time travel and Spider-Men from every parallel universe crossing over. Too many characters to keep track of, too confusing of a plot line, and just not that compelling for me.
Definitely look forward to the next Volume, hoping Slott gets back to the ongoing story that he started...
All of the Spider Verse stuff was too much craziness for me, with time travel and Spider-Men from every parallel universe crossing over. Too many characters to keep track of, too confusing of a plot line, and just not that compelling for me.
Definitely look forward to the next Volume, hoping Slott gets back to the ongoing story that he started...
March 3, 2019
This volume's main focus is the Spider-Verse, of which I have mixed feelings about. There's the good things, which is a great story, versus dangerous foes and very cool Spider-men but there's also the bad, waaaaay to many Spider-men and some really silly versions as well. As for the main storyline (Peter Parker), this volume does advance much into it, I believe due to the "Secret Wars" event.
June 17, 2018
I did quite enjoy the Spider-verse storyline.
January 17, 2022
Real, lo sentí como raro jajajaja la parte que continua la historia solo es como de 2 páginas y ya, pero me encanta como los spiderpeople se va repartiendo
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June 30, 2023
This one’s pretty all right.
The Spider-Verse story is dumb and schlocky and God do I hate the Inheritors, but it has its fun moments. Olivier Coipel’s pencils are really strong, and Camuncoli can still draw Spider-Man fine, but it can be really difficult to tell any of the characters apart unless they’re depicted in full. Camuncoli also still can’t draw faces.
The other arc collected here, “Graveyard Shift”, is honestly the strongest part for me. Ramos’s art is a lot more fun and dynamic than either of the other two pencillers, and the writing isn’t quite so painful or blunt. There’s even a half-decent joke in here during Spidey’s fight with Iguana: you’ll know it when you see it.
The Spider-Verse story is dumb and schlocky and God do I hate the Inheritors, but it has its fun moments. Olivier Coipel’s pencils are really strong, and Camuncoli can still draw Spider-Man fine, but it can be really difficult to tell any of the characters apart unless they’re depicted in full. Camuncoli also still can’t draw faces.
The other arc collected here, “Graveyard Shift”, is honestly the strongest part for me. Ramos’s art is a lot more fun and dynamic than either of the other two pencillers, and the writing isn’t quite so painful or blunt. There’s even a half-decent joke in here during Spidey’s fight with Iguana: you’ll know it when you see it.
September 17, 2016
So, I'm coming to Slott's Spider-Man work late compared to the rest of the world, but this is genius work. The best Spider-Man that Marvel's put together in years. Just read it, OK?
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