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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #590


Price: $2.99
iFanboy Community Pick of the Week Percentage: 1.3%

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  1. kndoubleu kndoubleu says:
    March 30, 2009 at 5:40 pm

    "And the start of a story that’s going to effect almost every title at Marvel Comics!"

     There are way too many typos in these blurbs every month. Marvel needs to hire a copy editor. Or a better one.  

  2. Garrett Garrett says:
    March 30, 2009 at 6:30 pm

    Amazin’ Spidey and the FF? It’s like I’m a giddy eight year old all over again.

  3. cutty cutty says:
    March 30, 2009 at 6:32 pm

    God I love the Osborns

  4. RoiVampire RoiVampire says:
    March 30, 2009 at 6:36 pm

    @Garrett  I know right, this book is so much fun

  5. Fvckstick Fvckstick says:
    March 30, 2009 at 6:55 pm

    I hate Mr. Negetive (but i love where the character seems to be going). But i love the osborns. This should be good.

  6. kwisdumb kwisdumb says:
    March 30, 2009 at 7:36 pm

    Can’t wait for this. It’s great to see some of the things happening in Spider-Man affecting the Marvel Universe proper. Also, Fantastic Four!

  7. tittom tittom says:
    March 30, 2009 at 7:48 pm

    Gosh, I need to catch up on Spidey…

  8. bowser bowser says:
    March 30, 2009 at 8:24 pm

    @tittom dude…do it. you don’t know what you’re missing.

  9. tittom tittom says:
    March 30, 2009 at 8:27 pm

    yeah, so I’m told..

  10. Fvckstick Fvckstick says:
    March 30, 2009 at 8:33 pm

    It has been great. I’m only 6 months into comics, and i got caught up from BND. I don’t have a ton of comics knowledge, but i’m loving ASM.

  11. boostergold4 says:
    March 31, 2009 at 8:20 am

    We need a SPOT ongoing!!!

  12. cutty cutty says:
    March 31, 2009 at 10:48 am

    I never read the JMS run.  is the consensus that the BND writing team is doing a better story or at least on par?

  13. SamMorgan SamMorgan says:
    March 31, 2009 at 11:23 am

    @cutty – the JMS run was brilliant (yeah, whatever…) and really grew Spider-Man into a rounded interesting character. When he reveiled his identity in Civil War it was the perfect thing for the character to do and signalled a new and exiting chapter in the Spider-man saga. However, Joe Quesada bottled it and with OND/BND chopped JMS’s story at it’s knees and regressed the character 20 years. There are many brilliant stories of Peter Parker hiding his costume from Aunt May and dating groovy chicks – they were by Stan Lee and John Rotima in the 60′s.

  14. Conor Kilpatrick conor (@cskilpatrick) says:
    March 31, 2009 at 2:13 pm

    @cutty: JMS’ run was half great and half blood-curdlingly awful.  BND, on the whole, has been much better.

  15. KickAss KickAss says:
    March 31, 2009 at 3:06 pm

    JMS run was excellent.  The best run on ASM since Stan Lee.

    BND is also great.  Though it hasn’t blown me away like JMS did.  But Guggenheim, Waid, and Kelly have done excellent short stories here.

    Millar’s 12 issues of Marvel Knights are also excellent.

    I’m predicting this as my POW, though Iron Man Secret Warriors look strong too.

  16. RoiVampire RoiVampire says:
    March 31, 2009 at 3:07 pm

    @Conor yeah i loved JMS except for the whole thing with gwen and the kids. His spider-man was very interesting but not very fun, this BND stuff has been both.

  17. cutty cutty says:
    March 31, 2009 at 4:10 pm

    @Roi – are you talking about the norman osborn knocked her up storyline?  i’ve heard about that, sounds pretty horrifying

  18. RoiVampire RoiVampire says:
    March 31, 2009 at 4:25 pm

    @Cutty It was the only time during the JMS run that i considered dropping amazing. impressive since i can’t actually imagine a world where i don’t reading Amazing every month

  19. kndoubleu kndoubleu says:
    March 31, 2009 at 5:31 pm

    JMS was kind of like casting Clooney as Batman. His Peter Parker was pitch-perfect, but his Super Hero stuff (Spidey quips aside) was usually insane, and rarely respected the universe, except when he’d bring in reverential characters like Cap or T’Challa. 

  20. Jim Mroczkowski Jimski (@jimski) says:
    April 1, 2009 at 2:08 pm

    The web-heads and Bendis need to have a working lunch and hash out what Peter’s attitude about sharing his secret identity actually is.

  21. Simmons Simmons says:
    April 1, 2009 at 3:08 pm

    Two issue arc? Nice

  22. RoiVampire RoiVampire says:
    April 1, 2009 at 4:56 pm

    @jimski Agreed but they can get out of it easily by saying this story takes place before Avengers 51 and maybe what happens in this story makes him lighten up on his secret identity

     

  23. Fvckstick Fvckstick says:
    April 1, 2009 at 8:52 pm

    What a great issue. I was ‘iffy’ at the start, but man, i felt like it did a great job at covering alot of ground within the 20 pages or so.

  24. TheNextChampion TheNextChampion says:
    April 1, 2009 at 10:13 pm

    This week’s Spider-Man: Peter reveals his identity too Ghost Rider!

    ‘I cant believe that your you!’-Johnny

  25. ActualButt ActualButt says:
    April 2, 2009 at 8:53 am

    The one thing about JMS’s ASM run that I hated was the whole Spider-Totem thing. Doesn’t that kind of ruin the point of Spidey being an everyman? I thought the point of power and responsibility was that Peter took the powers he was given by chance and used them to right wrongs. When it was revealed that he was "chosen" by some spider-god because he was destined or whatever, it gets reversed to "With great responsibility, there will also come great power."

    Everything else was great storytelling though.

    I don’t have a problem with "regressing the character 20 years". If Pete’s gonna stick around for another 45 years, maybe an "exit point" for the character is the wrong thing.

  26. TheNextChampion TheNextChampion says:
    April 2, 2009 at 12:51 pm

    Spider-Man’s 600th issue is about revealing himself to the Great Lake’s Avengers right?

  27. brianmaru brianmaru says:
    April 2, 2009 at 8:29 pm

    This was a whole lot of fun. 

  28. kwisdumb kwisdumb says:
    April 2, 2009 at 8:57 pm

    This was fun. Not the best Spider-Man issue in recent memory, but a pretty good issue, with an interesting story, featuring the Fantastic Four, and 2-parts long! A great 4-star book.

  29. captbastrd captbastrd says:
    April 2, 2009 at 10:02 pm

    How does this book have a lower rating than Cable?!? INJUSTICE!!

  30. ScorpionMasada ScorpionMasada says:
    April 3, 2009 at 12:19 am

    Almost gave it a 2, but it picked up towards the last half as it began to tie more and more into the stuff going on in the last year.

     

  31. kndoubleu kndoubleu says:
    April 3, 2009 at 3:46 am

    @ActualButt I actually thought that the totemic angle just accentuated the power/responsibility angle even more. It was heavily implied that other totems, not just Ezekial, used their powers without considering how they could help others. The entire subtext of the final battle with Morlun is that Peter is not fighting for himself, he is fighting for all of the loved ones in his life, of which there are many. 

  32. Parker Parker says:
    April 3, 2009 at 11:12 am

    I haven’t read all of the BND stuff but I was under the impression that Peter did not know what had happened to him. Obviouslly after this issue he does. So when did he find out about the Mephisto deal, or did he know the whole time?

  33. bakakaba bakakaba says:
    April 3, 2009 at 3:29 pm

    I don’t get the why people are making a big hububaloo about the identity reveal in this arc.  Just because the New Avengers know he’s Peter Parker again now doesn’t mean the rest of the world does again as well.  Spider-man has had close yet distinct relationships with the Avengers and the Fantastic Four.  Just because he pulls his mask off and reveals himself to one group isn’t going to be the same as with a different one.  For one, he isn’t a member of the FF and isn’t having to decide whether or not he wants to continue to be a part of their group like with the New Avengers, and 2nd the FF are a very open and public super hero team and having them know his true identity could be alot more dangerous for his loved ones(the whole reasoning behind his deal in BND being to protect them), then the New Avengers who have been in hiding and on the ‘wrong side of the law’ since Civil War.  Having seperate reveals for each group seems to me to be the right choice storywise. 

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