This week we veer off into the superhero lane, as longtime webhead Tim compares notes on recent issues of The Amazing Spider-Man with Kumar, who hadn’t read ASM in years & wondered what all the fuss was about over Dan Slott’s ongoing run. Slott does his best to stick to the axiom that “every issue is someone’s first”, so you have to make the bones thrown to fanboys understandable to newbies; how did Kumar fare? Also discussed are the wisdom (or lack thereof) of trying to explain the unexplainable, e.g. “spider sense”, and other things that did or didn’t work for us in ASM 654-657.
Plus, a shoutout to Gerry Alanguilan, author of the newly published Elmer.
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Looks like I spoke too soon (late?) about the Spider-Sense business. Check out #s 2 and 3:
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/10/30/ten-goofiest-plot-points-of-the-first-ten-issues-of-the-amazing-spider-man/
KS