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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #583


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  1. Avatar photo Garrett says:
    January 12, 2009 at 5:20 pm

    Spidey date issue, can’t wait!

  2. Avatar photo OccultPanda says:
    January 12, 2009 at 5:25 pm

      I’ll take Romita over Obama

  3. Avatar photo Garrett says:
    January 12, 2009 at 5:33 pm

    Oh, it this that issue? I’ll get to my store good and early then, just in case.

  4. flapjaxx says:
    January 12, 2009 at 5:41 pm

    Why is this issue a dollar extra? To help pay for the $27 million inaguration party expenses? Will this mean that Marvel might get a bailout sometime? 😉 (Seriously, I’d be for that. Maybe that’s the secret reason why Obama was in Savage Dragon, too. Hell, if that’s the case have Morrison rewrite the ending of Final Crisis with Obama saving the universe so DC can get in on this too.)

  5. Avatar photo Andrew says:
    January 12, 2009 at 5:51 pm

    Who asked for it? Who?

  6. Avatar photo Fvckstick says:
    January 12, 2009 at 6:05 pm

    i really want to start this. Im new to comics, and so far i have had to start at the very beginning of each series i start..but i don’t think i could start at the beginning of ASM at my current income because i dont make a mill a year =S

     

    Is this a new story arch or a decent place to begin? 

  7. phizeta564 says:
    January 12, 2009 at 6:07 pm

    I would never recommend starting this title post BND.

  8. Avatar photo Garrett says:
    January 12, 2009 at 6:08 pm

    I think it’s a self-contained "date" issue with the next big story arc starting with the next issue. Spidey books have a lot of single issue or two issue stories so I reckon that you can pretty much pick it up at any time without having to worry about continuity or having ‘missed out’ on anything.

  9. Avatar photo Parker says:
    January 12, 2009 at 6:10 pm

    A good rule is any time you see a creator change on the book (about every month or so) you can pick it up with very few problems. The recap page in the beginning brings you up to speed on anything important

  10. Avatar photo Conor Kilpatrick (@cskilpatrick) says:
    January 12, 2009 at 6:54 pm

    @Fvckstick: I think you can definitely start here.

  11. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    January 12, 2009 at 11:26 pm

    Barack Obama somehow cheated in the voting and made STEPHEN COLBERT, A GOD AMONG MEN, lose in the contest.

    This is just rubbing salt in Colbert’s wounds.

  12. Avatar photo UncleBob says:
    January 13, 2009 at 1:00 am

    Is it just Waid’s spidey that has been worth reading post BND?

  13. Avatar photo WinTheWonderboy says:
    January 13, 2009 at 2:31 am

    Is this a one and done or the first part of a new arc?

  14. Avatar photo Ntpmcrtp says:
    January 13, 2009 at 9:46 am

    @Win: This is a done in one. Next weeks issue is the start of the Marc Guggenheim & JRJR Character Assasination arc.

  15. Avatar photo Kimbo says:
    January 13, 2009 at 1:53 pm

    Great Romita cover and I love that Pete still rocks the turtleneck in 2009.

  16. Avatar photo RoiVampire says:
    January 13, 2009 at 6:17 pm

    @Kimbo I love seeing Romita draw something modern because the fashions take on this weird amalgam of the early 1970s and the late 1990s

  17. Avatar photo Crippler says:
    January 13, 2009 at 7:58 pm

    Really looking forward to the next arc.  The ‘filler’ issues have been pretty good though.  Remember, this is one of the reasons for BND – Pete dating again.  So, I’m hoping for a great, characterful issue. 

  18. Avatar photo Kimbo says:
    January 13, 2009 at 8:32 pm

    @RoiVampire- absolutely!  and he draws the foxiest ladies.

  19. Avatar photo Animalvader1 says:
    January 14, 2009 at 7:47 am

    JRSR is one of my fav. artists of all time! Obama who?

  20. Avatar photo WetWork says:
    January 14, 2009 at 12:50 pm

    I don’t normally speculate when it comes to comics but this time it is paying off.  Thank you Obama and thank you to my LCS who suggested that I preorder multiple copies. A few copies for friends and a few copies for ebay fodder to help fund my hobby for the rest of the year.  As for me, I’ll keep the JR cover.

  21. Avatar photo WinTheWonderboy says:
    January 14, 2009 at 12:58 pm

    So this is the Obama issue? All i want is Waid written spidy and now i’m probably not gonna find a copy:(

  22. Avatar photo forestjwp says:
    January 14, 2009 at 1:05 pm

    I don’t think you will have an issue finding a copy of the book.  Most people only want the Obama cover at least my LCS.  They all ordered up the 2nd varient and left the shop, most with no book in hand.  I will say this though, after reading it today I really disappointed in the date issue.  It never really moved anywhere, the Obama story was cool, but not worth the extra dollar they tacked on to the story. 

  23. Avatar photo RoiVampire says:
    January 14, 2009 at 6:55 pm

    the betty story was really touching i thought, surprised me

  24. Avatar photo Kimbo says:
    January 14, 2009 at 7:34 pm

    this was sold out at my shop when I got there at 4pm!  Was it good?

  25. Avatar photo Josh Christie says:
    January 14, 2009 at 9:00 pm

    @RoiVampire

    I thought the Betty story was pretty great, too.  I hope that a lot of people picked this up for the Obama story and start reading the book, as it seems like a great jumping-on point.

  26. Avatar photo JGG says:
    January 14, 2009 at 10:23 pm

    The Obama crap was really unnecessary.  Other than  that, a good issue overall

  27. Avatar photo Ntpmcrtp says:
    January 14, 2009 at 11:24 pm

    I love me some Kitson….though it seems he thinks Harry is black. This was a nice little one-off, well put together. The Obama stuff was cheesy, but a little cute. Good ish overall.

  28. Avatar photo PTAhole says:
    January 15, 2009 at 2:44 am

    The Betty Brant story was fantastic. It really reminded me of classic Spider-Man, but done in a way that doesn’t shove it in your face. Betty has been seriously neglected for… decades, so I’m glad she got her own issue.

  29. Avatar photo RoiVampire says:
    January 15, 2009 at 10:47 am

    @PTAhole  actually betty was featured a lot in peter david’s run on friendly neighborhood spider-man, but its nice to see her in a book everyone is reading

  30. Avatar photo Garrett says:
    January 15, 2009 at 12:55 pm

    Well, I went to my store at lunchtime and there was no Spidey on the shelf!  Anyway, I pick up the rest of my books and wait in line, then the manager quietly came up to me and enquired if I’d been looking for Spidey and I went: "Um, why actually, yes I was!" so he explained that he’d had so many calls about it that he’d decided to keep his issues off the shelf and only sell to his regulars and he got me one of his last three copies. 

    So anyways, I enjoyed this issue a lot though I was thrown off by Harry being African American. I know he’s always had that freaky cornbraid ‘do, but he’s caucasian, right?

  31. Avatar photo Jim says:
    January 15, 2009 at 1:11 pm

    This issue was good– I’d actually like to see the title move to a regular once per month schedule with Waid and Kitson, and let them have a run on the book.  Or Waid and Marcos Martin, who is awesome.  I don’t know if I quite buy Peter and Betty sitting there, with her being dressed and looking the way she did, drinking wine deep into the night, WITHOUT anything happened.  Really starts to make we wonder about ol’ Peter– we may be veering into creepy loser territory with him at this point.

    But other than that, I liked this issue, and Waid I think is my favorite of the rotating writers on the book right now.

  32. Avatar photo Spooky says:
    January 15, 2009 at 4:29 pm

    I’ll go on a record, that calling May a "Cougar" is inappropriate…

  33. Avatar photo RoiVampire says:
    January 15, 2009 at 5:09 pm

    @spooky i thought it was very appropriate given peter’s sense of humor. now calling the girls on the cover who looked younger than him "cougars", that was weird

  34. Avatar photo Guardedmarman says:
    January 15, 2009 at 8:21 pm

    You know I don’t think I like it when covers are talking to me. Also I don’t like when what is said on the cover is a bad line.

  35. Avatar photo Kimbo says:
    January 15, 2009 at 9:27 pm

    I have always found Pete and May’s flirting more than a little creepy myself.  

  36. Avatar photo thefreakygeeky says:
    January 16, 2009 at 11:12 am

    Did peter ever date a flat chested girl?

  37. Avatar photo RoiVampire says:
    January 18, 2009 at 10:08 pm

    There are no flat chested girls in 616

  38. Avatar photo Guardedmarman says:
    January 19, 2009 at 1:52 pm

    hahahaha

  39. Avatar photo Hellblazer says:
    January 22, 2009 at 11:24 pm

    Ah man, I just realized they printed my letter in the back of this one!!!

  40. Avatar photo rwpos says:
    January 25, 2009 at 9:08 pm

    The main story with Betty Brant was fun and light, but the Obama back up was trite and silly – I didn’t care for it at all.

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