When I started getting back into ASM, it was when "Back in Black" was getting a reprisal or I should say nightmarish end. I managed to snag the last few issues of Spectacular and somehow catch up. Where it all ended.. May shot, Peter and MJ on the run. Civil War struck a cord because we "lost" Cap. In a way we lost Spidey as well, everything was darker, the series was at an end. Then that dreadful "change everything" and "let's make a deal" with that character..
For awhile I took a breather from ASM altogether. Went back to find the classic tales I couldn't find before. I actually found the "happy birthday" issued opened up Peter's "pandora's box". The scenario: a rainy, dark stormy night, Spidey is standing in a graveyard, battered and at wits end. Some chief of police is telling him to give up already, something bad happened here..."by the eye of Aggimoto!" woosh.. stuck in limbo with the Sinister = holy cow!? everyone!? And the consequences he faced, and those he couldn't save. At the end, he receives a gift, getting to see Uncle Ben again. Herein happy birthday..
I know this was sometime ago, but the cover alone pulled me in. And I want to go through my collection just to read it. I look at 600, John Romita JR's art graces the cover, and the first story of "a wedding!" Bear in mind, I haven't read an issue of ASM after OMD, into BND until that issue. So it stuns me that they spun the entire timeweb into "what if" but its staying that way... nobody knows who Peter is (except his trusted friends). Since then I've read several missed stories, and find myself wondering "Where do we go now?" And finding out that "Ends of the Earth" may be Doc Ock's "swan song".. it might even take Spidey with it. I'm amazed that one of the smartest villains could go this far.. and they actually gave him "one more chance" scenario. Curious as to how things will change even more.
But the worst?... One More Day, it didn't have to happen.
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