The Amazing Spider-Man #1 - Lucky To Be Alive; Recapturing That Old Spark; Crossed Paths; How My Stuff Works; Homecoming, Sort Of; Kaine; Learning To Crawl: Awazing Reality

There was defiantly some interesting setup in this issue. I believe Peter will be going back to Ock's memories, meaning we have not seen the last of him ! Overall I really enjoyed the issue, I have not read any of the side stories yet, but I am glad that see Peter reacting to what Ock has done. That is very interesting to me personally.

Anyone notice how Slott managed to retcon a retcon within 22 pages? The new established origin takes place 13 years ago this would be 2001-2002. In the 1.1 followup, Pete's debut as a wrestler there's a kid who "exposes" him using a smartphone, either a Iphone or a Samsung to capture the action. Then, he uploads his video onto youtube. Anyone sense the error here? Youtube wasn't a thing until the mid 2000's and the iphone made its debut in the late 2000's. It's not even a minor error because it throws into question the entire relevance of this backup story as many of what this kid could and could not do is largely impossible. Google is a thing you know, use it.

Good Lord. There's nothing like a new Spider-Man book to bring out all the whiners.

@captainhoopla: To be fair, it's an iconic hero we're talking about. It would be like replacing Kal-El with Zod.

I started reading Superior Spider-Man after the whining began; I relished in it. The fortunate thing is that it reinvigorated people's love for the character by giving them a feel of someone else in Peter's shoes.

One thing I particularly enjoyed about Spock was his villainy on crime.

The one aspect of Superior Spider-Man that I didn't like was the fact that Spock was able to takeout Felicia so easily when her Bad Luck powers should have seen that coming. And the fact that Slott has decided to make her into a super villain against Spider-Man is quite depressing without knowing that Spock wasn't Peter to begin with.

I really like the cover... the price is a bit steep to be fair though.

I enjoyed the main story. The back-up stories were mostly a waste of time. Felicia seemed to be kind of out of character. I know Ock was down on her, but she seemed to be way more evil-ish here than I would expect.

Marvel must not have a lot of confidence in the Inhuman event stuff if they feel like they need to include it in here to get people reading it.

@vegandiet:

You are one ignorant SOB you know that?

@thewalkingdeadpool18: If it makes you feel better to insult me for pointing out how massively overrated this series was then, by all means, go ahead.

It isn't going to make the Superior Spider-man series anything other than mediocre garbage.

I agree. You are spot on with you sentiment. I do not feel that Superior Spider-Man was executed well at all from start to finish. But as long as Spider-Man continues to sell the way it has, I doubt that Marvel will have a reason to replace Slott with someone else. I have a feeling that Slott will remain on Spider-Man as sole writer as Bendis has with Ultimate Spider-Man because they are making so much money for Marvel , as well as the fact that Slott lives only a few blocks away from the office. Thus, Marvel finds it a whole lot cheaper to keep Slott around for as long as he wants to write Spider-Man(whether or not his writing is Superior to everyone else) because Slott =$$$$$$$$$$$ for Marvel!!!

@vegandiet:

Again continue to be an ignorant child. IDC if you like the series or not but to say people who do have no taste or say it's mediocre garbage like it's a fact is just being an arrogant,egotistical.ignorant, child. Continue to act like a 5 year old by all means though.

@thewalkingdeadpool18: It's perfectly mature to call someone an "ignorant SOB", though, right?

I loved it. It was great getting Peter back in all his adorable goofy glory.

@vegandiet:

When their acting like ignorant SOBs

This was a meh issue for me. I did like the part when Black Cat was seething though. Really funny. That scene in Superior where Spider-Man just punches out her tooth was pure comedy gold.

G-Man said; Otto may be gone but he won't be forgotten (although there was an interesting hint at C2E2 last weekend). -

anyone know what was said?

There's a lot of potential here. Not the best issue ever but not bad. The back up stories were a nice touch, but the Learning to Crawl lead-in was garbage. Whether it's supposed to be set in the 60's to coincide with Spidey's origin or whether it's set "thirteen years ago" as the opening page suggests that's when Peter became Spidey...the bottom line is they didn't have smartphones, tablets, or modern headphones in the 60s or the 2000's. I wish the artist had realized this instead of making all those mistakes in the book. If that continues through Learning to Crawl, even as a hardcore Spidey fan, I'll pass, too many anachronisms.