Yesterday Roxxon definitely tried to reform Scorpion, and everyone showed up to celebrate Avengers Day, even the dead Avengers.>previous threadshttps://pastebin.com/JExjVDhP
>>153426140What a sesquarcentennial this should be.
Well it was nice knowing you, Cromwell
Did the Gathering of Five ever got a TPB release? If not, it seems strange that Marvel never tried to reprint this
>>153426217It's that sinister crimelord, Bandage Bridge!
>>153426215I think it probably got a trade back after it came out. The late 90s were when trades started to get popular but pretty much between the clone saga and the start of the JMS run is where modern marvel hasn’t quite gotten to properly doing omnis or epics for yet. We’re almost there I believe
>>153426234I feel like you're obligated to stop an assault, Pete.
>>153426337I could've sworn Blade was a 2000's movie.
>>153426364So he let a guy run past him instead of stopping him, that guy then shoots and kills two people, and that's it? No guilt trips?
>>153426449Have you not read the Bugle? He's a criminal and a menace
>>153426490The ol' rancor trick works every time.
Oohhh a couple of names popping up hereI like it
>>153426140I'll be honest, this is the point where Norman lost the plot. Up until now, Norman has only ever been seeking revenge on Peter for spoiling his plan to become the kngpin of New York (something he hasn't tried to do since the first 40m issues), but this... This is different.
>>153426164>technomancers Wait, aren't these the guys who Spiderman and Dr Strange teamed up to fight when they accidentally summoned a flesh wizard who talked like he was on Xbox Live in 2010?
>>153426702Yeah, I've never read this storyline before, but I remember Peter snarking about how out-of-character it was during the Spider-Girl storytime.
>>153426407Oh yeah, his wife. Shit she was a dumbass.
Is it me, or did Spider-Man fight a lot of people that had holograms/Virtual Reality as their gimmick in the 2000s?
>>153426814*1990sWe haven't actually hit the 2000s yet.
>>153426814It was the style at the time.
Well this should prove to be a fun ritual
Woah, big return
>>153426614>guest writerIf only
>>153426735Is this where the game got it from?
>>153426784I will point out that if we just don't story time the final one or two issues of this and switch over the Spider Girl, I think the continuity would line up. I'm not sue exactly where the split in continuity happens, but I know it's in one of those 2 issues.
>>153426903And deprive Magister of all the great Spider-Man stories of the 21st century? I think not.
>>153426914This is the 2nd time a Spiderman villain has gone from revenge on Peter to mass genocide as their main motivation. No one liked it when it happened with the Jackal, so IDK why they are doing it with Norman.
>>153426934You say that, but I actually am a defender of the 2000's Spiderman. While it is a dumb idea, Sins Past is actually well written for what it is. Also, since we are following the clones, we will be doing the Scarlet Spider book in the 2010s.
>>153427023>This is the 2nd time a Spiderman villain has gone from revenge on Peter to mass genocide as their main motivationDoc Ock did that twice. Once was a big bomb and that time he poisoned the Bugle's ink
>>153427081Don't forgot the time he was terrified of Spider-Man and tried to wipe out Manhattan to kill him.
>>153427042Who the hell is this asshole?
>>153427081Oh yeah, I guess I just don't think of doc as a villain with revenge as his main motivation.
>>153427126That's Robbie
>>153427081>>153427103HE GETS THE FRAGMENT OFF SCREEN!?!?It feels like a whole issue is missing between these pages.
>>153427163Maybe we'll get, like, an OVA later
>>153427124>>153427140>>153427151Was this ever explained? Were the X-men having another Inferno at the time or something?
>>153427193Look man, this stuff just happens in New York
>>153427071From Maximum Clonage onwards, that's what it feels like. Dumb ideas, but the execution can sometimes bridge the gap.Can, but not always does.
>>153427176>Maybe we'll get, like, an OVA laterThere was once a time I imaged working for Marvel and only writing a series of one shots telling off screen stories like this or Doc Samson's story of coming back to life.
This feels like something that was worth spending a third of the book on
Fuggin' good-bye schoolWho needs it
>>153427390The premise isn't bad, but the execution is shot. Instead of "so this is what it'd be like to follow Spidey around", it's just "Byrne has a really low opinion of cyclists". It's like if that DeFalco one from the other day had the archaeologists make mistakes because archaeologists are dumb and stupid and I hate them instead of just because it's funny.
>>153427464It really feels like Byrne is trying his absolute hardest to not engage with the A plot of this 5 parter
>>153426246Marvel were doing the black and white Essentials line by this time, mostly for 60s to 80s material. Full color trades were a mix of evergreen material and anthologies like "greatest battles" and "greatest team-ups", they were slowly starting to reprint more events and important stories that still got referenced, but it was the late 90s, so the focus tended to be on X-Men trades. We don't get into the era of every comic Marvel publish getting collected as a trade a few months later until after Quesada becomes EIC.
>>153426766>robbie! how could you not help me fight this guy even i can't beat so easily?
>>153426702>I'll be honest, this is the point where Norman lost the plot.Norman having a Goblin Moment and throwing away everything he's accomplished in a moment of madness is just how he rolls, but this storyline ends up being similar to what happened with the Jackal back in Maximum Clonage, where a villain whose goals are usually smaller and more personal is suddenly planning something world-threatening for no reason just to raise the stakes to make it look like a big important story.>>153427193IIRC the behind the scenes explanation was literally just the artist wanting to draw a dinosaur or monster so the issue's action scene was built around that. In-story the day Spider-Man webbed up that monster and left it for the cops may be the most important day of the monster's life, but for Spider-Man, it was Tuesday.
>>153427527Feels real weird to see in the same storytime as "I got this chunk of the MacGuffin somewhere somehow off-screen". I get that it's not the same book, but still.
>>153427103>>153427163>"What a horrible adventure with that ham demon!"
Oof
I am astounded that went so smoothNO STORYTIME TOMORROWThe Final Chapter begins on Wednesday
>>153427951Thanks Magister.Everyone say goodbye to Dezago, I'm pretty confident we will never see him again
>>153427951>The Final Chapter begins on WednesdayIt's not that bad right now. but man, THAT issue....
>>153427951Thanks for storytiming, Magister!
>>153427628I have a 90s copy of the invasion of the spider slayers trade but yeah the trades I remember buying when I was a kid were spidey team ups with daredevil and the x-men
>>153427951Thanks magister
>>153426140Oh boy here we go
>>153426934>>153427071I feel like from the start of Gathering of Five forward it's a completely different Spider-Man than before. There are things from 00s Spider-Man that I like but the overall directions towards things makes me feel like it's a whole other character than the one from the 60s to 1998
>>153432058Feels like there are a bunch of different points where people say "this is where it stops being Spider-Man for me". It's like temperature; different people have different points where they say "it's too cold, I'm outta here", but at some point, pretty much everybody has ducked out.
>>153432128I think Ive heard different anons say their jumping off points were ASM 300, 400, and 500
>>153427908>>153427929Jesus the thirst on these pages
>>153432769It's equal opportunity too
>>153432058For those who don't know, there's a major retcon incoming in the next storyline, and the relaunch is accompanied by Spider-Man Chapter One, John Byrne's attempt to revise and modernize the origin and first year and a half of the original comics, so this right here is basically the lead in to a soft reboot, and one that was terribly received and also has one of Marvel's periodic attempts to 'permanently' write MJ out
>>153427929Reminder that the whole plot of MJ going back to modelling was so they could portray her as a "world-famous supermodel" and then make the argument that Peter shouldn't be married to a world-famous supermodel who can pay for everything and you can't write Peter needing to sell photos of Spider-Man to pay the rent or whatever.
>>153426969Her dream is to turn into Stunner?
>>153433972It's funny to me because they basically just created their own problemShe had gone through all the crazy shit with Jonathan Caesar and crazy Secret Hospital fans, which would justify her getting out of modeling and actingIIRC she was going back to college in the post-Clone Saga periodThe comic strip had her selling electronics in the 90sShe could be there and not make enough money to pay for everything
>>153437141The problem wasn't that she was rich, it was that they're married at all. Making her famous is just creating justification.It's like "accidentally" staining a sweater you hate but your grandma made you. Whoops, gotta throw it out, what a shame, what a shame.
