AKA Old Man Parker storytime
Spider-Man - Life Story #6 storytime
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What he did with Superior is KINO
>know jack shit about Spider-Man post 2010
This should be interesting
>old Peter in the Miles suit while Miles' white
I can't tell whether the mistake was on Bagley's part, the letterer or the colorist
All the versions of Spider-Man fighting the Six.
Awesome.
I guarantee you most of everything that happened this decade will be kept out
Thanks for the storytime!
damn
Press F to pay respects.
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OH SHIT
Kino
Otto pulled a GET OUT on Miles?!
It really would have been better with a more fleshed out story, it's a bit rushed.
I expected a miserable Parker in this issue.
We all knew this is is the issue where he dies
This is nice.
It’s weird to me when people don’t realize Star Wars is incredibly mainstream, even for people born in the 90s and later.
Kek
They went full Bruce Willis.
Can we just call it already and say this was the best mini of 2019?
Hell yes. I want it expanded upon, I wish it was 12 issues with two per decade.
I preferred meet the Skrulls
Not a terrible ending but a somewhat disappointing one, and oddly typical compared to the interesting twists and turns in previous issues.
This shouldve had a spoiler cover
Also HOLY SHIT
Should I dump the first five issues as well?
Yes, is it.
>somehow mix in superior spider-man and miles morale
Kino, I kind of hoping to see miles morale at his debute age. Not some seventeen year old teenager.
eh, could have been way better and again this series really needed more issues to flesh out the decades
Venom choosing to die with Peter is sweet, honestly.
>Ben survived
Nice.
based bagley with jessica's suit.
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Its the best spider story we got in years
Feels.
Thanks OP.
Lol why is he drawing Ultimate Otto
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;_;7
Oh SHIT
Oh fuck
Well, fuck.
i hate miles but at least this was a good use of him
This run has been so good. I'm really happy with every retcon they made. Has to be one of the definitive Peter Parker stories
I wanna see more Life Stories. This was a great concept.
OTP
I knew it would happen and I'm still choked up.
Oh yeah, i forgot this was a thing, might aswell check it out
>Miles two pages in
K bye
it's not Ben, they are referring to Claire's son. She is the one with the cane, and it's her daughter in Ult-Jessica's suit.
I skipped this mini because I thought it was just a gimmick but this was a neat issue.
claire had brown hair, not orange. and peter even tells her she needs to protect her brother
This is so much better twist.
this was meant for
So Doom wins because everyone else is shit
MJ looks fucking amazing for what should be like 70.
just like 616
Okay, Venom/Kraven is an idea I can get behind.
Kinda sucks that they give us Peter’s kids here, make his daughter a heto and never really do much with it. Not even sure where this stands in the multiverse to possibly allow her to show up in the next Spider-Verse crossover thanks to Morlin last issue
>We'd go to the ends of the earth
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Thanks, OP. It's crazy how much better Zdarsky got after the first arc of his Spectacular Spider-Man.
Yes please
Thanks OP. I wish it ended differently but I liked it.
Damn just imagine how good stories we could get for other heroes
WE already got a civil war in this series.
So was that the symbiote showing he wants to be a hero in its last dying breath with Peter?
It's ashame this series was cut down to 6 issues rather than the proposed 6 volumes Zdarsky wanted. But he did what he could, and I enjoyed it.
It's only been like 10 years since the last issue. Claire's daughter wouldn't be that old yet.
It also doesn't disprove the whole hair color thing.
Are you retarded? That is Benjy and Claire. Benjy says Dad to Peter, and Peter thinks about Claire whilst talking to the woman in the suit.
Marathoned this today. It was really fucking good
Get fucked
Kravenom.
Naming your kid after you dead brother seems like a strange thing to do.
That was great.
Perhaps. or maybe it was fondness for its first love.
spoiler this shit you nigger
Yes please
Are you retarded?
>it’s left ambiguous whether these visuals come from the dream or miles in the present.
Oh. Well done I guess.
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Meh. The Otto twist was nice, but it was a pretty mediocre comic. And I don't like the Miles shilling.
I mean, Superman and Batman Generations was miles better.
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Props to Bagely. I haven't been so hot on his recent stuff but he really was firing on all cylinders for this.
He is just drawing Otto skinny like Ultimate Otto. Besides since this is a mind thing, Doc Ock probably didn't want to look fat
>You're my Jackpot.
Pfft.
Gay.
The only suit that's missing is the one Peter wore during Secret Wars before the black suit.
Yeah that was my takeaway from it. I don't care what anyone else says.
With more issues Kravenom would have been more than a plot device.
I'd say there should have been 2 series for each period after the 3rd issue, when things started to get more convoluted.
That book sucked balls dude, also there is a difference between Miles shilling and just having Miles be there. He is literally one of Spider-Man's legacy characters, why wouldn't he be there
Kino.
When you think about it, this Life Story could be set in a what if universe where Tony decided to participate in the Vietnam War.
BECAUSE HE IS BLACK AND I DON'T LIKE BEING REMINDED OF THEM!
>What If: Iron Man participated in the Vietnam War.
Forgot to add this.
So shame we never got concrete resolution on Tony, Cap and Reed, or even a Daredevil apperance. Make me wonder If Chip Zdarsky will be writing similar series for the other characters.
Oh my gooood
My feels
I wish Zdarsky was able to do his 1 miniseries per era plan but I guess Marv didn't want to green light 36 issues at once, maybe if Zdarsky had more clout. I kinda wish he just did this for his spectacular spider man instead.
You know? I believe this issue could have yet ANOTHER episode. Bring Spider-Island and Dead No More to the mix, and we can have something crazy.
Glad to know Ben is alive, but how? The Other, maybe? And why he uses a cane? I guess Morlun took his toll after all. And yeah, Claire wears Ultimate Jessica Drew's suit. Weird.
Thanks a ton, Stark. Your stupidity finally gave Doom his ultimate victory. (Such an imbecile!). Although I also believe the Skrulls should have appeared.
Too intense, honestly. I expected a longer fight.
I should be ashamed of myself! How didn't I see this possibility?!
I expected something a little more... "Intense", honestly.
In the end, Aunt May is the true superhero Parker.
I don't know, but something tells me the symbiote and Peter could have survived somehow.
"I also get bitten by a radioactive spider". Future Spider-Island's reference?
Dis is truly darkest timeline. Will buy this as a paperback and digital
Does this adapt anything other than Superior and "Miles is there"? Is the Doom thing, like, a very loose adaptation of Secret Wars?
Holy fuck this page gets me good
The real deepest lore here is that Otto sat down and watched return of the jedi.
After all this time?
Always
I assumed that's what it was alluding to. That was the only real big 00s event
Also Spider-Verse in the mind battle
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fuuuuuuck ;_:
Kay, Hass!
>MJ is Miles "Aunt May"
Kino
Saddest death since Arthur Morgan.
WHAT'S UP DANGER
Beautiful.
thank you for the story time, I missed part 4 and 5
What a nice ending
Shame the series couldn't have spent a couple issues in each era
WHAT THE FUUUUUCK
BASED OP
Well that was anticlimactic.
It's weirdly melancholic how something like this mini series can be done as well as it could have done in 6 issues while the rest of Marvel books feels like they struggle with the dialogue on the first page. Of course it's harder to make something new but still.
>his waifu came back for him
BASED
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AH SHIT NIGGA
This was fan fucking tastic. Loved It.
Yep
god dammit, now everyone can just rip his faceplate right off.
Holy freaking kino.
I think I'm going to make a fanfic trying to imagine what happens AFTER this.
you gotta finish it, COME ON
It's such a comic book death. I love it. Yeah, he's very likely incinerated, but you never know, kree ship passing by could have teleported him on board. Plenty of ideas of what you think happens next. The story never ends
Damn i miss Arthur
>power dies with one fucking page remaining
My shit got fucked up. But here you go.
Best superhero comic of the decade, god damn they need to get zdarsky on amazing after spencer is done
Damn. This was a great mini. I wish it was a bit longer, but it's great we got it either way.
Alright bros it's time. Which one of the Life Story costumes was your favorite?
It must get pretty exhausting/depressing to deal with your original rogues for decades to their last moments
spectacular ending
Nah, the medium numbers were pretty bland. The ending salvages the whole thing.
Read Generations from Byrne. Is exactly the same idea.
I love Norman so god damn much
I don't read Spider-Man anymore, but when I do, I read this shit right here.
This is so fucking retardedly convoluted. It's Benjy crippled after killing Morlun you retard.
It was truly an amazing fantasy
Nice reference to the What If story.
Absolutely beatiful ending.
While I still think this should have been a 12-issue mini, I am glad not only this worked out excellently, but also managed to be way better than what everyone thought it could be.
It was truly... Amazing.
They were born in the 80s. That’s Uncle Ben he was named after.
Hey there were a few pages at the end of some Spider-man comic where it depicts him as old and babysitting his grandkid.
He tells him stories about being Spider-man and fighting Kraven the Rhino. Then he takes him swinging through the suburbs.
Can someone tell me where that's from or post it?
It's a backup in Amazing Spider-Man #700
It's Benjy you fucking autist
The fucking opening page states that he didn't die against Morlun
Even better, it could have been a romantic date night with May.
>the resistance
This was the best issue of the series. Great ending.
NAMOORED
Dumbass, go back and read it said "Peter's son, Benjy, was nearly killed."
That's probably one of the reasons why Zdarsky requested not to release a preview for this issue.
Thanks man.
I came a little.
This one time, a black page isn't useless.
I never teared up for a comic book before, goddamn. This industry is at the worst it's ever been but there really are genuine gems every now and then.
6 is my favorite cover but i kinda wish that 5 and 6 actually had a design more in line with the rest.
I hope they release them as prints
Really?
I like the concept but the whole series feels more like a story outline than a proper series.
I think Zdarky's initial idea of 1 mini series per decade would have worked really well.
As it stands you have to have already read the original series and MC2 to have an emotional attachment to the story and even then if you take a step back,it falls apart.
If you were purely focusing on Spidey I think 3 issues per decade would have been good.
If you wanted to do the entire MU you'd probably need 6 minimum
Superior Otto absolutely destroyed.
I've been buying each issue of this mini but I'm still going to get the volume when it comes out, this was too good
;_;7
Fuck me
Civil War.
That jacket.
Was the Zdarsky hate just a meme from the start or did he just suddenly improve? This shit has been incredibly good.
He was shockingly bad for the first bunch of issues of his Spectacular Spider-Man run, but he improved a lot towards the end of the series, now he's hit his peak with Life Story
The less comedy Zdarsky writes, the more better the book.
That's why it was genius to put him on daredevil
>look up Zdarsky's twitter
>this is what i find
Wtf???
He looks kinda like Tom green
His last issue of spectacular is probably my favorite single issue of spider-man released in a decade
I don't remember the 90s being quite this bad. Or well-drawn.
It was always a meme. Spectacular (and that scifi indie with the incomprehensibly forgettable name and plot) started rough, but he’s always had some skill.
>the same guy who wrote pic related wrote Life Story
Like I said, he likes his comedy
I wonder if Pete let Otto stay things would have turned out different
this cover is almost perfect it only misses the 90's Spider-man font
Literally what is going on in this page
Howard the Duck gets teleported away, Pete thinks he got vaporised and has a breakdown
Yeah that's actually super accurate. I like a lot of the little touches like the "Part four of six" and the collector's item banner at the top
I love how this still holds up.
>all these people unaware of Chip and his sense of humor
I can't find the notebook, does anyone have it?
i’ve always been a fan of his how-to series
Doom always wins
Zdarsky is great at drama but terrible at comedy. The problem is that everyone around him kept trying to convince him that he's hilarious so he only ever wrote bad comedy books. All of his more serious works have been fantastic.
This. I really hope to see more serious stories from him in the future
That's pretty much all he's doing now with Invaders and Daredevil. Hell even his #1000 page was haunting He's moved his comedy stuff to his newsletter it seems
Oh and there's also The White Trees
God damn, this was a good book, but it could have been a GREAT one if it were twice as long.
I'm shocked now it's never been done before.
KraVenom is such a good idea it's a shame it got so few pages, but the Miles twist is so damn good I can hardly mind it.
Okay, I really liked this bit.
what happened in the 90s? i forgot
someone repost the 00s
Ock resurfaced and captures Ben.
Check the thread, its all in here
based
based aunt may
fucking kino
I have to wonder... Why's Venom there? Otto shouldn't know about and as far as we know the Symbiote's been with Kraven all the years since.
who's that on the far right?
vision?
Iron Fist
wait is that steve? or bucky
i love cloak and dagger being avengers though
based
ahh okay, so claire got artificially aged. i missed that
thanksalso ty
You are a low IQ ape man.
Am I crazy or was there no hint of Black Cat anywhere in this?
I get that when you're trying to cram as much in there as you can you're gonna miss some bits, but I would've thought Felicia was important enough to get a mention.
His first Spider-Man stuff was pretty cringy (especially Peter gushing over Riri). But he greatly improved very quickly and his Spider-Man became even better than Slott’s (which granted isn’t saying much) and did some interesting things (like having Peter reveal his secret to JJ and JJ becoming friends with Peter). Zdarksy has become a very good Spider-Man writer.
Kino series.
God, I hope we get more Life Stories in the future, whether they’re by Zdarsky or not. If they set it in a different universe and didn’t just have all the Avengers die because of Civil War I’d love to see a Life Story for the team as it changes over the decades.
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Fantastic, thanks user
>"hahahahaha. Now I'll kill you"
>"dude what is your fucking problem?! You could have actually done something important in you life. Something meaningful to atleast one person, but you wasted your whole life trying to kill me because I what? Stopped you from stealing 10? Even if you kill me, then what? You gonna kill yourself and be a real fucking waste of a person. Go do something with you shitty life before it's over. Actually help someone. Fucking christ man. I dont even think about you 90% of the time. I got a family. People I love. A fucking life. Go home dude."
Who's Claire?
His daughter.
Seriously, why the fuck do people have so much trouble with reading comprehension when it comes to the kids
Otto could do it. He's way smarter than parker. But I'm a SuperiorFag so choose to ignore me
Okay now for a real debate
>Life Story
Or
>Blue
Blue, life story is nice but it needed more issues. The book feels really decompressed and while it works over all I think it would've worked better if each decade got two issues rather than one, though we'll see if this series did we'll maybe we'll see the rest of this marvel universe to get a more complete feeling of its story. Which could ratchet it up, though it is still very good
Spider-Kong, Spider-Kong, radioactive Spider-Kong.
So he did he live his life as a public hero with his identity out?
It's making fun of the MCU Spider-man who for some dumb reason thinks of star wars as "old" unlike every actual irl teenager
That did surprise me. On top of that, what happened to the Gwen clone? I feel like an extra issue or two per decade could've fleshed things out more, but this is better than I thought.
It's Steve.
Generations
Pre-COIE Earth 2 stuff if you're used to how comics used to be written back then
Funky Winkerbean
How have sales been? Enough that it'll let Zdarsky have another couple of goes at this universe with other heroes? Maybe fill in the blanks with some anthology shorts on Claire and others?
May had Alzheimer's in the early 80's
Why would it be Miles? The narration captions by Peter are all red/white.
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IT NEVER ENDS
Beat me to it
Does anyone have this without the letters?
>Superior Miles
Chip you madman
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To Marvel's greatest hero
Shit, last panel made me tear up a bit
This series gave us some goodass redesigns.
It did pretty good I think I think each week it came out it was in the top ten
Though biggest complaint
>Miles
>Jessica Jones
>No Felica
I get he wouldn't have had time to meet her but it would've been nice if she got a mention
He read Spider-Man's Wikipedia page.
CAn you post it
why wouldnt miles be included him being not in it at all would be even weirder than no black cat.
I just hate miles and the last few threads have really shown that his fanbase wants him to be the wholesale replacement of the character. I get why he's there but jesus christ bendis getting royalties or recognition leaves a terrible taste in my mouth
Don't believe the cuck posters, Miles could be okay without his dumb powers and how bland he is.
the mj thread from yesterday really soured me to him completely. I'll never like him, but I'm an adult and I can accept that, but I think they actively try to antagonize for the arguments. Hell he and MJ had a cute moment in the recent friendly neighborhood and the entire time i was just thinking "great more fuel for those cucks"
It was the same for me actually, there was absolutely no undertones. But cuck posting is becoming rampant. Some are just trolls, and some are just jacked up on porn. Don't forget that 80% of threads here are non-discussions about kids cartoon. I don't like Miles either because of how they mischievously built him up. But at that point I just don't want them to shit on Peter's legacy anymore.
That spider space suit is fucking great.
That Venom is Kray
This and the game found a solid balance, hell this made me want to see how peter actually reacted to miles. But on the whole he's not about adding to the story it seems bendis always wanted him to overwrite peter completely, both his vision and spiderverse show that
Seriously how old is Sergei like in his 80/90s
over 100 is he's really meant to be the child of a tsarist russian royal
keep reading
FINALLY MILES IS IMPORTANT WHAT A TWIST
Brother you and me are in the same boat, let’s see how crazy this shit gets.
>Venom vs Black Suit Spider-Man
Based
>No Silver Spider-Man
We wuz robbed
I want this with Tony or other characters. I feel they brought up a lot of background stuff that's worth knowing. I was worried they'd try to connect it to something established the the Old Man universe.
What is top left suit?
That's the suit from issue 5, he used it to take on Tony and incapacitate his team of armored avengers
I was personally hoping for something closer to Marvels but seeing the finished product I'm pretty satisfied. Yeah the book seems to need spin offs considering how much different this marvel universe is, I wonder what the rest of the universe looks like, would cap start in the 40s?
>the last few threads have really shown that his fanbase wants him to be the wholesale replacement of the character
So, youre saying youre very easily trolled?
nigga look up the last MJ thread, that shit isn't trolling. Actual cucks have latched themselves onto miles its fucking maddening
ok, just ignore them
I wondered what happend to clone Gwen after Ben took over Pete's life?
Well done
This is the best Spider-Man story of the last thirty goddamned years
bros, why am I crying?
Absolutely kino. Fucking poetic. To the end.
I've tried but Miles is always there user. Regardless of anything he has to always be there user, and the damage has been done. He's just cuck relief and that's all bendis ever made him to be. Those other anons are just following what his creator wanted
You use the word cuck so you're already a braindead subhuman in my eyes. Go outside and make friends you goddamn weirdo. Stop letting delusional /pol/tard faggotry live in your head rent free
>”You’re my heart, you’re my jackpot”
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Holy fucking shit this was amazing. Best Spider-Man I’ve read in a long time
>
Literally two posts into this thread, that had nothing to do with him they came. Can you think of a better word for them? That shit ruined this moment that was supposed to be sweet and the recent issue of friendly. They're insidious and sad fuckers literally raiding the site
Of course
I mean if they have to kill Peter off and hang the title to miles this is the way to do it.
Pretty much these
If they revisit this concept at some point I'd like more information on just why they let Civil War get so goddamned out of hand here. Peter's narration makes it seem like some serious shit happened between now and last issue, ten years ago.
considering they straight up say that everyone is dead I hope he'll get more minis to flesh out the other heros. Fuck what was doom doing with this shit in space? Did reed and sue ever have franklin?
>Norman in a purple suit, Peter in a red blazer
It’s the little things
YOOOOOOO
Is this the best death Peter's gotten in a comic? The only two I can remember weren't as good as this.
>Amazing 700 has Peter job to Otto (who he had recently beaten for the supposed final time since Ends of the Earth ended with 687) after a mindswap caused by his own stupidity, he doesn't get his last words in, he just accepts his death after Otto, his greatest enemy, says he'll do a total 180 and be Spider-Man and the whole thing was rendered pointless since he came back a year and a half later after Otto realized he fucked up
>Ultimate Spider-Man was an okay way for him to go out if it wasn't undone by having him wake up and suddenly be immortal, retire, and then die again thanks to the incursions - without ever being Spider-Man after his first death
>Life Story Peter has beaten and outlasted all of his villains save for 2, fights his greatest enemies one last time in the mindscape and wins, sacrifices his own life so Miles can get his back, and dies saving the world, with confidence that the next generation of heroes will be okay without him
Doom was able to send whatever he wanted up to space because nobody could stop him - all the heroes were too busy fighting each other. And I don't think there's a Franklin in this timeline because Pete mentions to Reed in I think the 70s issue that Sue left him because he's apathetic and "barely human".
Don't forget dying at the end of the other. This is better than all of those simply for being something completely out of left field.
Made me get emotional, damn.
Love this book.
Fuck
Nobody mentioned cucking until you guys came here to complain about them, user.
When did Sue leave with Namor? That never happened
I fuck with that Goblin
Superior was done shittily and Miles ruins everything. 90's or 60's are still the best ones.
>Peter gets to threesome with Gwen and her clone
at some point between the 60s and mid 70s user. at least in this universe
I get what you're saying user but at least he wasn't ever to in the way
Damn that’s pretty heady
>MJ has a peg leg
Can’t unsee it
Rorschach top panel
I don't know what the fuck I'm reading but this is pretty hot not gonna lie
>even in spiderman there is doomwank
His wolfman is showing
Even here you can see his desire to bring JJJ and spidey closer
>Fucked up G. Morrison shit!
Every time. Every fucking time.
>’cause you got a Doctor’s appointment
>Spider-Man fucking Jessica Jones
Lmao
Wait so Peter is the clone and Ben is the real Peter?
Peter is still the real peter, it was a fake out by Norman
Based
To the very end
>Luke Cage bailing out his wife’s lover
Top cuck
Is Claire essentially Mayday? Or was she always a character
sure is dusty in here....
Epic
Claire is more her own character, Mayday wasn’t a twin
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You Hit a home run
When did she leave for Namor?
Absolutely perfect 90s cover
“Iron” Fist
616? I'm not sure if that happened.
Yeah that was weird, did her and Ben break up? What happened to her?
What a shyamalan tier twist
>Spider-Man cucked Luke Cage
Peter is so based.
No one wanted Peters legacy to be shit but they’ve torn him down for years only to replace him ham handedly. Same with Riri Williams.
It never explicitly states his name but he is old as fuck, did you know he was on the original team of avengers with Sabretooth? Saw that shit here recently.
Isn’t that sad? Wtf Marvel
Never brought up. Ben did die to Morlun. Limitation of having 6 issues.
It's reality. Decent writers are in short supply in the current capeshit industry.
>Pete mentions to Reed in I think the 70s issue that Sue left him because he's apathetic and "barely human".
That’s true he did. But that obviously never happened right?
I happened in this story. He wouldn't be butthurt about it if it was untrue.
>Cyclops watches from behind a couch
>couch is Mystique who is also watching
Top kek
>Punisher fucks a gun
/k/ as fuck
That’s what I’m saying
All the money in the world can’t buy talent.
They did a What If story once about what if Spider-man stopped the robber
He grew up to be an asshole since he never experienced consequences
There was also the Last Stand in JMS' run, I think?
Cap still started in the 40's, they outright said it in the first issue, he got frozen in 1945 or whatever and got revived in the 60's (as the original version happened) instead of whatever current year the sliding timeline does.
that's not the point.
the point is that he's finally forgiven himself for not stopping the robber. he finally feels as if he's made a difference. he's finally free. And it's not some asspull at the end, it's something he came to before he sets out on the mission he's pretty sure he's coming back from. It's so natural and human, it's just fucking brilliantly done god damn chip you magnificent fucker.
Different Peters plus even he eventually matured.
I personally hope that we get a eventual Spider-Man Life Story: Directors Cut with all the missing content. All the stories that had to be dropped because of the 6 issue limit.
I'd like to see that. I'd even accept Life Story specials where he could do stories set in the other years that could be fit into a collected edition in chronological order.
Train, Ferry, Space Station. It's a natural progression.
>Spider-Man Life Story: The Lost Years
Honestly #5 still fit right in. Zdarsky said in PanelxPanel that Brevoort suggested #5's cover have blue in it; Zdarsky was originally going to make it simply red/white.
I want to see Petes funeral
Presumably yes, or it's an "I'm Not Daredevil" situation and his identity was never formally revealed
I wish he got to meet his grandkids eventually
He should have lived bros
I've known several people who had never seen any of the Star Wars movies.