The Superior Spider-man Vol. 2: Your Neighborhood Watch Spider Thread

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Figured now was as good a time as any seeing as West said a new one was coming soon.

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #688
DAN SLOTT (w) • GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI (a/C)
LIZARD VARIANT Cover by J. SCOTT CAMPBELL
• No need to wait for the movie to see Spider-Man wrangle the reptilian rage of one of his greatest foes!
• Spider-Man is stuck between two monsters when Morbius the Living Vampire attempts to cure the Lizard and restore Curt Connors.
32 PGS./Rated T ...$3.99

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SPIDER-MEN #2 (of 5)
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W)
SARA PICHELLI (A)
MARTIN VARIANT ALSO AVAILABLE
PICHELLI VARIANT ALSO AVAILABLE
32 PGS./Rated T+ ...$3.99

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ASM: I see the next arc is going to take a pretty dark turn. Me likey.

Spider-Men: So much win.

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Spider-Men: So much win.

Hopefuly, 'cause the first issue was pretty boring.

Marvel Plans a Big Time 50th Anniversary for SPIDER-MAN

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Hopefuly, 'cause the first issue was pretty boring.

It had it's moments, but I thought it was serviceable. I pretty much expected a good chunk of the first issue would involve getting Peter to the Ultimate Universe and trying to figure out what happened. So I kinda took it for what it was. I really liked the change of perspective at the very last page. It was all Peter, and then bam, it switches to Miles(even though he is unaware of this fact)meeting the original Spider-Man.

Marvel Plans a Big Time 50th Anniversary for SPIDER-MAN

Hmm. When the solicits for Sensational, Peter Parker, and Web of Spider-Man came out, I thought they going to be reprints or something. Now I might give those a look.

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Spider-Men #3 Preview

Marvel is proud to present your first look at Spider-Men #3, as the blockbuster creative team of best-selling writer Brian Bendis and red hot artist Sara Pichelli bring you the next chapter in the ultimate Spider-Man event of the year! Now that Peter Parker and Miles Morales have met, can they both work together to defeat their foes – or will they require the help of Nick Fury and his Ultimates?

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Scarlet Spider Pages by Khoi Pham




Scarlet Spider Pages by Ryan Stegman

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just gonna put this here

Why Mary Jane is the Best Love Interest for Spider-Man

and leave it at that

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Exclusive: Spider-Man to Get an Amazing Sidekick

Spider-Man's days as a solo act in his friendly neighborhood war on crime appear to be over. After 50 years, the Wall-crawler is getting a sidekick.

Meet Alpha, a 15-year-old teenager named Andy Macguire who becomes the Spidey’s protégé in Marvel’s upcoming "Amazing Spider-Man No. 692." The issue, which will be released in August, celebrates Spider-Man’s 50th anniversary while introducing Alpha/Andy to the world in a story that pays homage to the Webslinger’s 1962 origin.

In this story, we find that Peter Parker's days as photographer for the Daily Bugle are behind him and he's now a scientist at a research firm. Andy is part of a student field trip that visits Parker's lab. He's in the wrong place (or perhaps the right place) at the wrong time when Parker's invention malfunctions and zaps him with great power. Parker - haunted by the way he got his own super abilities and how his failure to use them led to the murder of his beloved Uncle Ben so many years ago - feels an even greater responsibility to help young Andy. He feels he must help him discover his powers and teach him how to use them responsibly.

So, the team of Spider-Man and Alpha is born. Spidey has his own "Robin." But golden anniversaries aside, why is now the right time for a new dynamic duo?

"Part of it is that Spider-Man is grown up," said Axel Alonso, editor-in-chief of Marvel Entertainment. "He's older, more seasoned, but young at heart. He's still a young man, but he's been around. It's interesting because it flips the paradigm. Teen hero Spider-Man is now responsible for this teen hero sidekick. He's responsible because one of his inventions caused this kid to get his powers. He's directly responsible for the responsibility this kid now has with his new powers. He feels he has a responsibility to make sure this kid walks the right path, which won't prove easy."

Still, the story of Alpha/Andy Macguire is not just a modern day retelling of the Spider-Man origin. It is déjà vu with a twist. While there are many parallels between Parker and Andy, they are also very different. As a teenager, Parker was a poster boy for nerdiness and an easy target for bullies. Getting bitten by a radioactive spider and acquiring super powers did a lot for his mojo, but a shyness and lack of confidence always seemed to follow Parker.

Andy, Marvel editors and writers say, does not have a confidence problem. Like Parker of yesteryear, he is an outcast. However, Andy has a brashness, an edge, that Parker will find challenging, especially as he molds a potentially unpredictable teen who’s more powerful than he is. This may make Spider-Man and Alpha seem less Batman and Robin and more Odd Couple.

Cover of 'Amazing Spider-Man No. 693'

"If you put Spider-Man and Batman in the same situation, you're going to have way more fun with Spider-Man," said “Amazing Spider-Man” writer Dan Slott. "With Batman, he never really screws up the way Spider-Man does; he always seems to make the right decision. But with Spider-Man, he always screws up. He's us as a superhero. Batman is a paragon of what we'd like to be, but in reality, we're more like Spider-Man. He makes all the mistakes we make."

And perhaps that is the secret to Spider-Man’s enduring popularity. Spider-Man co-creators Stan Lee and Steve Ditko changed the face of the superheroes when the Wall-crawler made his debut in Marvel Comics’ “Amazing Fantasy No. 15” in 1962. Before Spidey, the most popular comic heroes at the time were Superman and Batman. Sporting Adonis-like physiques, superheroes were godlike. They represented the ideal. The line between heroes and the people they protected was solid and distinct.

Lee and Ditko smudged that line with characters like the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man. Against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War, vulnerable, conflicted superheroes became the new ideal.

"What we try to do with the 50th anniversary of Spider-Man is we try to play with the original clay of the book," said Steve Wacker, editor of “Amazing Spider-Man.” "When Spider-Man was first created in the 1960s, there was no other superhero like him. Pop culture had never really taken teenagers into account. What Stan and Steve did was sing to their angst, and we're trying to sort of modernize that."

At the time of his debut, Peter Parker was the quintessential underdog, a scrawny, lonely lab geek. He was an orphan whose only friends were his doting Aunt May and Uncle Ben. Becoming Spider-Man didn’t solve those problems; they increased them tenfold. At times, Parker’s spider powers were more curse than blessing.

Fans have continued to love Spidey because of Peter Parker. Sure, they dig the creepy costume. They marvel at the ass-kickings he dishes out and the way he strings up his enemies in spider webs. They wish they had his knack for trash talk. But they stick with Wall-crawler – and have followed him for almost 700 issues of "Amazing Spider-Man" - because they’ve seen him struggle to pay the rent. They’ve watched his roller coaster relationship with the love of his life, Mary Jane. They watched him lose his job at the Daily Bugle.

Superpowers have not made Spider-Man immune from everyday struggles. He sometimes needs rescuing from life itself and continues to adapt to changing times – just like us.

“Heroes have to represent their times," said Robert Thompson, the founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University. "One of the reasons stories such as Robin Hood or Pocahontas or Batman or Superman can continue to be told is that they continue to evolve to suit the times.

After half a century, Spider-Man's story seems to be more in demand than ever. He sells out Broadway with Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. He's had a successful movie franchise that will be rebooted when the highly anticipated The Amazing Spider-Man opens in theaters nationwide on July 3.

Not bad for a one-man show. But will comic book fans be receptive when Spider-Man starts sharing his stage with Alpha? Stay tuned, True Believers, stay tuned.

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Tobey Maguire
Andrew Garfield
Andy Macguire

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Those fuckers should've used Spider-Girl. Anyways I'm guessing that he'll either be dead by ASM #700 or be Spider-Man by ASM #700.

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The Amazing Spider-Man #692 Preview

Fans across the globe have been asking, “Who Is Alpha” and this August, in Amazing Spider-Man #692, they’ll find out! Marvel is celebrating Spider-Man’s 50th anniversary in style as the blockbuster creative team of Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos give Peter Parker his very own….sidekick?! When he’s not working with the Avengers of the Future Foundation, Spider-Man has been saving the Marvel Universe on his own for fifty years! But now, with his anniversary right around the corner, that’s all about to change!

This special event, could only be told in this oversized issue celebrating the values that made Spider-Man the world’s greatest super hero for the past five decades and many more to come. And with special variant covers by superstar artist Marcos Martin, depicting Spider-Man through the years, no fan can miss out on this! Get ready for a story about power and responsibility like you’ve never seen before in Amazing Spider-Man #692, swinging into comic shops everywhere, the Marvel Comics app and the Marvel Digital Comics Shop this August.

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Uh,WHAT?!?

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...I swear to God, I am so livid, my hands are shaking...

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10:1 Alpha will have become a villain by the end of the year.

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You know what'll be funny? If his sidekick gets clones.