What's the worst decade for your favorite superhero? Let's make it fun and exclude the 2010s onwards. I'll be a contrarian and say that Spidey's 70's were a snooze
>>153676327Especially 1972
Isn't that the case for most people at Marvel? They were in dire straights then.
>>153676408The Steve Englehart/Frank Brunner Dr. Strange run was a high-point, one of the best runs next to the original Steve Ditko run. And of course the new X-Men team started in the mid-70's.
>>153676327It's only with Wolfman that ASM starts falling off and O'Neils run was 1980. The 1970s are a hell of a lot better than the last 30 years of Spider-Man. You can argue it's been one extended low period since Maximum Carnage.
>>15367632790s :(
>>153676957How bad is it actually? He spent most of the 2010s being written by Bendis and Aaron who both didn't understand the character or magic and systematically doing everything they could to make him look like shit like losing all of his abilities or losing his position to fucking Brother Voodoo. I don't think he even had a book for most of that period.
>>153677822He spent the 90s quipping like spider-man, being replaced by different versions of himself repeatedly, having his entire supporting cast erased (or killed off unceremoniously), and getting cancer from using too much magic.It was bad. The 90s walked so that Bendis and Aaron could run.
>>153676691I think Conway was the best of 1970s Spider-Man but after he leaves it really falls off. That said it is better than later stuffBND felt like they wanted to be 70s Spider-Man badly but didn't succeed at it
>>153676957They really tried >we have Constantine at home With him here
>>153676408What? 70s Marvel was great
>>153679131My opinion is that Conway's beginning and end are great but the middle portion is merely okay. I enjoy Wein's run a lot, it's not revolutionary but I think it's really fun and I like how it uses NYC as a major part, almost like a character itself. Wolfman's isn't great by comparison.
>>153676691I found Conway's run just fine, but I like Lee/Romita more than most I think. Wein and Wolfman by comparison I just find boring, the cast, the villains, all of it. It doesn't help that I've never liked how Andru draws people
>>153679806>>153676327I feel like Conway is overrated. He wtote two of the best Spider-Man issues of all time, and they're always used to justify why his run is excellent. I enjoyed many issues. But, Octavius and Hammerhead dying in a nuclear explosion while Peter and May escape in a helicopter? WTF??? That's not Spider-Man. There was a lot of shit like that on some of his issues. And the original Clone Saga is either disliked or ignored. I like it but I wouldnt say that it's incredible.
>>15367632700's It was like a never ending humiliation ritual.
>>153679924I think the issue with Luke Cage right after Gwen's death is pretty great too
>>1536763272004-2010 had Sins Past, Civil War, One More Day, Brand New Day and One Moment in Time2013-2014 had Superior Spider-Man but that and the Queenpin garbage but besides Alpha it was just generic Slottslop.2020s this era made me deeply resent Peter Parker as a pathetiic whiny manchild and cuckold to Paul Rabin, Venom and now Flash Thompson and succeeded in making me despise Mary Jane Watson--she was never Peter's--it was just hist turn. At least he has Raelith now... God, I wish he'd go back to space it's been the same old bullshit since he got back to Earth and that Hellgate shit seems to have been completely dropped, Joe Kelly is only interested in using Black Cat as a rebound girl/fuck buddy, Torment was a nobody and the event was boring Paul's death MIGHT have meant something to me 4 years ago but now they are going to ruin Flash...I swear to God how Peter hasn't killed himself yet in-universe at this point is honestly beyond me because there is nothing inspirational about him anymore.
>>153676327Excluding the 2010s is cheating, but are you also excluding the 2020s just because they're not over yet? It's not like Spidey comics are going to turn things around in the next 3.5 years, and this decade is surely worse than the 70s for him.>>153676691>You can argue it's been one extended low period since Maximum Carnage.That's a pretty contrarian take though, the 90s until just before OMD have extreme highs and lows, but it's been all downhill from OMD.>>153677958What's worse, Strange having a bad run that lasted about 2 years of the 90s, and getting cancelled a year later, or not even having his own book in the 2000s? IIRC he just got a mini that was a retelling of the origin.>>153680618I suppose this is a thread where you can do your bit and it's actually on-topic.
>>153680833I'm always on topic, I see the interconnectedness of all things.
>>153676327Every year in which Adam Warlock wasnt written by Jim Starlin can be summed up as his worst year with this only applying a little bit less in the GOTG 2008 comic and the last few issues of the Infinity Watch.
>>153680833I know it's fucking delusional, but I have hope for Spider-Man this decade. Nick Lowe's editorial power is btfo by mcu synergy, so I'm praying that mcu Peter and MJ are fucking soulmates in film and IRL
>>153681033Don’t do this to yourself, anon. Get a grip.
>>153680819>2004-2010 had Sins Past, Civil War, One More Day, Brand New Day and One Moment in TimeThe first of these doesn't really do any damage to Spider-Man as a character at all though. It's a story you disliked, but there are going to be some stories you dislike in every decade. Big deal. It doesn't do any real harm to the character. Slotto's 2010s work normalizing multiversal travel in Spidey stories, and normalizing Peter having cursed-tier luck are things that have done far more lasting damage to the character, together with Benis bringing Miles into 616 as an unasked for successor to the role.
>>153680618add the 10's & 20's.
>>153684477read the OP retard
>>153685465She's been shit since 2003.
>>153676327I want to say 1994-98 was a pretty shit time for Spider-Man.
Right now. There's not a single character who's doing better now than they were in previous decades. The talent and intent to create good stories is simply too rare.
>>153684477>>153687194Illiteracy rates are skyrocketing.
>>153676408>>15367930770s Marvel had a lot of good runs but most of them were on somewhat B-list titles and/or titles that were started only recently like The Defenders and Man-Thing.Of the flagship titles launched in the '60s, almost none of them were as good as they had been in the 1960s: Spider-Man, Thor, Fantastic Four, etc.The Avengers for some reason is an exception to this.
>>153676327All decades.
>>153676327Silver Age Marvel and DC are pretty bad. They merely have good art.
>>153692885bait
>>153676327spiders aren't insects
>>153695442Yes they are, faggot. The lizard said so. And the lizard’s an expert.
>>153680618Missing 60 IQ pointsNo AuraNo FemininityNo Agency
>>153676327Stegron was pure sex
