Spider-verse

Dan Slott is a legend. He has taken Spider-Man by the horns and made it awesome. After the end of Superior Spider-Man and the Amazing Spider-Man came back, the stories got a bit dull, but with with the start of Spider-Verse, it picked up pace rapidly once again. This collects all the tie-ins to the event and reading them all you get the whole story. I think just reading the main event is good but there are lots of little off shoots which are important. I think the most important one is Scarlet Spider 1 - 3. This has tons of different Spider-Men ranging from Peter Porker "Spider-HAM" to a Japanese Spider-Man with a great big mech at his disposal (sorry I forget his name) The order of the book is not in chronological order (you can google it if you want). But it keeps the flow of each book rather than split them up all over the place and wonder whats going on. I think the way it is laid out in the book is just fine. This book is worth every penny. My 1 and ONLY criticism is "Why didn't you include the Edge of Spider-Verse" prelude mini series. I think the answer is obvious, to generate more sales for another book. Its a shame as that would have COMPLETED the series. Oh, and it's glued binding so there is a bit of gutter loss. Not tons. For £56 it would have been nice if it was stitched binding so the book lays flat. Not a massive issue though really. Still. 5 stars easily!!!

I have been wanting to get my hands on this for so long, and I finally got it at a good price. Absolutely love it I read it at least once a year.

Unkillable energy vampires hunt down Spider-Men across the multiverse. Can our Spider-Man, and the many multiversal spiders, save the day? The plot is simple and straightforward. This is very much an epic, not a tale of your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man. I finally got round to reading this, and I'm glad I did. I'm not up on the Spider-Man side of Marvel from the last, yikes, thirty odd years. It felt a bit impenetrable, with all the clones etc. I found this a great introduction to all things Spider-Man. I felt like there are so many spiders it didn't matter I didn't know their backstories. I definitely want to explore more Superior Spider-Man, he's great. The story is so simple and direct it works as a great framework for these spiders to weave their parts of the story. As i was reading this tale of a multiverse of hero variants and an unkillable threat I enjoyed the warm feeling of familiarity. I'd read this story over 40 years ago. And Slott read my mind, as early on we're introduced to Billy Braddock, Spider-UK and member of Roma and Saturnyn's Captain Britain Corps. Slott takes inspiration from John Thorpe, Alan Moore and Alan Davis' early 80s Marvel UK Captain Britain run, with its invention of Earth-616 and a corp of variants of one hero. In place of Moore's unrelenting terrifying The Fury we get Slott's The Inheritors family. As a family they help expand out the story, drawing in more spiders as characters, and explaining their motivations to each other. It's a very effective twist on this old story. The Inheritors aren't very interesting as villains, but that doesn't detract from a tale well told. The story is simple but the creative explosion here is in the spiders. They are great, not lazy "What if...?" style spider versions of other Marvel heroes. The closest to that is Billy Braddock as both a Captain Britain and a Spider-Man. He's such a neat addition, and as the exception his inclusion is fine (but then I'm much more of a Captain Britain fan than a spider fan, so I'm biased). The book is a half-way house between a chronological presentation of the issues and the best presentation of the story. Shoving the Team-Up, Scarlet Spiders, Spider-woman issues, etc, to the back was a good idea. There's a chronological list near the front if you want to read it in the "right" order. I used that to hop about this book, but found it didn't present the story so well. The exception is the Spider-Woman issues which would've been better slipped in between the main Spider-Man issues, and half of one Team-Up issue. All the rest kills the momentum of the central plot to not great purpose. It's the traditional Marvel cross-over approach after all. I should have known better! The art is almost entirely top draw generic Marvel. This is not the place for artistic invention. This is a book full of very similar spiders, so the main requirement here is clarity. The art is spot on in that respect. Spider-Verse is an enjoyable action romp, you won't regret reading it.

Just a warning to anyone who buys this brilliant comic bundle. Although there is a reading order list included in this bundle, bizarrely the comics don't follow the order of list. All the comics for this story are here, I don't know why but for some reason some early episodes are tagged on at the end of the bundle! The three part mini-series Scarlett spiders for example is at the end of the bundle as well as the cross title issues of spider-woman. I was annoyed to find this out after I'd bought them.

So I read a few reviews of this from complaining that the book is out of order with some of the issues. The main plot is intact and some of the extended stories are told afterwards. By extended I mean issues where they collect various Spider-Heroes to come help. The better of these were those starring Jessica Drew, and the 3 issues of Scarlet Spiders. I'm so mad they're replacing Kaine. So anyway, bought this for £40. Totally worth it. It is one of the best comics I have read in a while. Looking forward to Edge of Venomverse for sure.

This was intresting brought for my son who dont like reading

Great collection and amazing to see cameos of spider-people long past. Lady Spiders version of the Sinister 6 was my personal favourite

I'd give it a better review if it wasn't for the fact that it is such mess of a collection, I returned mine as it was in an unreadble, illogical and annoying out of sequence order, Marvel have not done me wrong with big events in the past but with this it was too confusing. Instead of having the issues in the order you should read them they have listed the order but with no page numbers as to where each issue starts and some ridiculously hard to understand contents/issue listing at the start. It is a great story but I highly reccomend you wait for a better version to be released. I really hope Marvel do not do this with other stories as it half ruined the enjoyment for me, and the paperback does not contain half the stories this version contains so I still have not read the whole story, just the main bit I bought in paperback. Bad decision from someone at Marvel, slap them on the wrist and give them a different job to do, like dusting for cobwebs.

Morlun was one of my favorite villains and I love how his backstory was expanded. The artwork is superb and the stories are great. I'm planning to read the entire Superior Spiderman arc just because of how well hes written her. Also with the upcoming Spidergeddon titles continuing the story of the Inheritors, this is a great book to get invested in.

This omnibus is absolutely great, and well worth the $68 that I payed for it. The collection contains the FULL Spider-verse storyline collected in ASM 7-15, as well as the tie-ins. But for some reason they're all at the back, which made reading them in Chronological order a little bit hinky. So yeah, you want my opinion, read the stories at the front, then ASM 7-11, then jump to about halfway and read all the tie-ins except maybe Spider-woman 4, go back to finish ASM, and S-W 4 last. How you read them is up to you however, you may also like to check online for a reading order, but given the paperback's design, I suggest reading all the tie-ins in one go.

"Spider-Verse" collects "Amazing Spider-Man" nos. 7-15, "Superior Spider-Man" nos. 32-33, "Spider-Verse" nos. 1-2, "Spider-Verse Team-Up" nos. 1-3, "Scarlet Spiders" nos. 1-3, "Spider-Woman" nos. 1-4, "Spider-Man 2099" nos. 5-8, and "Free Comic Book Day 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy" no. 1. The story focuses on a family named the Inheritors who seek those with spider powers (called “totems”) across the multiverse to feed upon them. On of them, Morlun, first appeared during J. Michael Straczynski’s early 2000s run on "Amazing Spider-Man". The story also includes elements from his storyline “The Other” and from "Araña: Heart of the Spider". Spider-Verse is a fun, innovative new Spider-Man tale that weaves strands from the past decade or so of comics along with various fun alternate universes (some of which include versions of Spider-Man from his own past, such as the multi-armed Spider-Man or clone Ben Reilly) that really feels like a good event for the character. In the past, some Spider-Man events were either too rushed (like “One More Day”) or far too long (like the “Clone Saga”). This manages to strike the right balance and also allows some of the more fun elements to shine through, like Spider-Ham. Plus, it helped launch Spider-Gwen and Silk. My only complaint about this volume is that the editors present the tie-in stories from "Spider-Verse Team-Up", "Scarlet Spiders", "Spider-Woman", "Spider-Man 2099" after the main storyline has ended, rather than putting them after the issues in which writers cross-reference them. It would be a more coherent volume if they did without those feeling like add-ons (though many of them appear in their own trade paperback format under their own titles). If you want an epic Spider-Man story that has a lot of heart, a lot of creativity, and helps to resolve some of the continuity issues from the 2000s, this is the book for you.

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Vorwort: Meine Rezension bezieht sich auf das Oversized Hardcover Spider Verse und befasst sich nicht mit der inhaltlichen Qualität der enthaltenen Stories. Eigentlich gibt es nicht mehr viel zu sagen, was in den englischen Reviews auf Amazon.com nicht schon erwähnt wurde. Die Sammlung und Reihenfolge der einzelnen Ausgabe ist eine editoriale Katastrophe. Man muss es mit eigenen Augen erleben, um es wirklich zu glauben; zumindest war das bei mir der Fall. Leider haben all die negativen Reviews, die genau diesen Punkt bemängeln, vollkommen recht. Man könnte an einigen Stellen fast meinen die Herausgeber haben einfach einen Würfel geworfen und daran die Reihenfolge der Aufgaben festgelegt. Das ist mehr als schade, denn so bekommt das Lesevergnügen einen ziemlich fahlen Beigeschmack durch ständiges Hin- und Herblättern. Weiterhin zu bemängeln ist, dass die Ausgaben "Edge of Spider Verse 1-5" zwar in der vorangestellten 'Spider Verse reading order' aufgeführt, aber nicht im Hardcover enthalten sind. Will man also das komplette Spider Verse Event lesen, kommt man um den zusätzliche Kauf des Softcovers TPB "Edge of Spider Verse" nicht herum. Vermutlich der Grund, wieso Marvel dieses Hardcover nicht als Omnibus bezeichnet. Das ist fast schon eine Frechheit und riecht nach Abzocke. Darüberhinaus lässt die Papierqualität zu wünschen übrig. Das Papier ist grenzwertig dünn und neigt daher dazu sich zu Wellen, wie man auf einem Bild einer amerikanischen Kunderezension gut erkennen kann. Hier wurde eindeutig gespart. Das alles wäre vertretbar, wenn der Preis im Augleich entsprechend günstig wäre. Doch bei einem Coverpreis von $ 75 ist eindeutig mehr zu erwarten. Wie kann es sein, dass ein kleinerer Verlag wie Icon, dessen "Definitive Hardcover Vol. 4" der Serie "Powers" ich vor einiger Zeit gekauft habe, dieses bei nur 50 Seiten weniger (insg. 600 Seiten) mit dickerer und besserer Papierqualität zu einem Coverpreis von $ 35 anbieten kann? 40 Dollar Preisunterschied zu einem vergleichbaren Hardcover der Konkurrenz und Marvel tut nichts, um diese Differenz durch bessere Qualität zu rechtfertigen - im Gegenteil. Neben aller Kritik ist dies ein starkes und lesenswertes Spider-Man Event. Wer bis hierhin Slotts Geschichten mochte, wird nicht enttäuscht werden. Auch wenn meiner Meinung nach seine Darstellung von Peter Parker endlich etwas "erwachsener" sein könnte, die meisten Ideen, die Slott und die übrigen Autoren in diesem Event haben, sind sehr lesens-, die Zeichnungen sehenswert. Ich habe Spider Verse als Warehouse Deal zu einem guten Preis erstanden und bin daher trotz aller Kritik letzendlich sehr zufrieden. Ich kann indes leider nur davon abraten dieses Hardcover zum auch nur annähernd vollen Preis zu kaufen.