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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #600


Price: $4.99
iFanboy Community Pick of the Week Percentage: 53.6%
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  1. Avatar photo Zeppo says:
    July 20, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    Can’t wait for this!

    I have high hopes – Dan Slott, JRJR and Doc Ock! Stan Lee and Marcos Martin, not to mention Mark Waird and Joe Kelly.

    I think Amazing has been hit and miss a bit lately, but this sounds like it is going to be a HIT!

  2. Omegadark says:
    July 20, 2009 at 5:16 pm

    Good chance i may end up with 25 of these…

  3. Avatar photo Zeppo says:
    July 20, 2009 at 5:18 pm

    @ omegadark

    Lol, I don’t normally go for varient covers but I can see myself getting one of these.

  4. Avatar photo Garrett says:
    July 20, 2009 at 5:40 pm

    Can’t wait! I’ve been loving Amazing Spider-Man this year. I hope all that talk of returning to the Clone Saga is just that – talk.

  5. flapjaxx says:
    July 20, 2009 at 5:40 pm

    104 pages, and it’s "all-original"? Yowza. $5 is a bargin.

  6. Avatar photo RoiVampire says:
    July 20, 2009 at 5:56 pm

    Oh man i am going to lose it when this comes out. So excited

  7. Avatar photo DarthDuck says:
    July 20, 2009 at 6:06 pm

    I really might have to get the Romita Sr. variant…

    very, very excited.

  8. Avatar photo TheApeThatEscaped says:
    July 20, 2009 at 6:10 pm

    Holy moly! No reprints!?!  Now that’s the way to do it.

  9. Avatar photo miyamotofreak says:
    July 20, 2009 at 6:24 pm

    So I think I’m going to jump on with this.

  10. Avatar photo vadamowens says:
    July 20, 2009 at 6:34 pm

    Too many fucking writers!!!!

  11. Avatar photo torippu says:
    July 20, 2009 at 7:05 pm

    JR Jr cover for me! Very much looking forward to the 60 pager from Slott and Romita Jr!!

  12. Avatar photo cromulent says:
    July 20, 2009 at 7:11 pm

    No reprints! Thank you Marvel!

  13. Avatar photo RocketRacoon says:
    July 20, 2009 at 7:17 pm

    This has pick of the week written all over it. Spidey has been really good lately. The thrice-monthly schedule has allowed the book to get a lot of momentum and I love how they have tied in Dark Reign and Norman Osborn into’s spideys’ world.

     

  14. MisterJ says:
    July 20, 2009 at 7:25 pm

    Can’t pass up JRJR on Spidey.  (or Marcos Martin)

  15. Avatar photo RoiVampire says:
    July 20, 2009 at 7:36 pm

    Seriously? Stan Lee and Marcos Martin! wow, color me even more excited that i was before

  16. Avatar photo MrWilson says:
    July 20, 2009 at 7:58 pm

    Going to be awesome. No REPRINTS!

  17. Avatar photo crazychris says:
    July 20, 2009 at 9:27 pm

    @Darth Duck, I also hope I can score the Romita Sr. variant, it’s definitely a thing of beauty

  18. Avatar photo kwisdumb says:
    July 20, 2009 at 10:45 pm

    Super excited for this one. 100% all new content is nice as well!

  19. ChrisNjen says:
    July 21, 2009 at 1:00 am

    the romita sr. cover is colored by martin…you can tell the HUGE influence romita sr had on marcos.

  20. Avatar photo bobdoad says:
    July 21, 2009 at 12:00 pm

    i’m sad the bendis story got pulled. bastards.

  21. Avatar photo miyamotofreak says:
    July 21, 2009 at 1:48 pm

    I heard there’s like no ads in this either. Plus, from the solicits today, this is the first issue after the last trade, so HELL YEAH I’M JUMPING ON!

  22. Avatar photo Zeppo says:
    July 21, 2009 at 2:21 pm

    @bobdoad

    It’s in the next issue 601, I think. I would rather Bob Gales got dropped all together, and Bendis took it’s place. I wasn’t impressed with Gales previous arcs.

     

  23. Avatar photo KickAss says:
    July 21, 2009 at 3:44 pm

    This is paperback sized right here, for cheap.

    Gale got an unfair wrap, for reasons I don’t know.  His Freak story, as well as the Booker/Enforcers story were excellent.  I think the haters just stuck to him harder for being more new than the other writers.

    Waid & Kelly have been A List for me.

  24. Avatar photo Zeppo says:
    July 21, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    @ KickAss

    I didn’t enjoy the style of the Freak and Bookie stories. I didn’t think they flew as well as the other stories, but like the guys on the podcast keep saying – to each his own. Hope you like the Gale outing in #600. I’d never read any Slott or Guggenhiem before Amazing, but their stories worked better for me.

    I’m looking forward to the Slott/JRJR/Doc Ock story the most.

     

  25. Avatar photo RoiVampire says:
    July 21, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    I didn’t like the Freak story at all but I loved the other stuff Gale did

  26. Avatar photo Zeppo says:
    July 21, 2009 at 4:16 pm

    Just spotted this over on CBR:

    Dan Slott wrote: "Hey!

    Quick heads up for Spidey-fans in the NYC area…
    I’ll be doing a signing for AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #600 at Jim Hanley’s Universe:
    4 West 33rd St., New York
    (opposite The Empire State Building)
    (212) 268-7088

    The signing starts Weds. night, July 22nd, 6:00 pm… and there’ll be CAKE!
    (For all you fans of Portal, "the cake is not a lie". No kidding. As long as it lasts, there will be cake.)

    So please, if you’re in the friendly neighborhood, drop by and say "Hi!".

    ASM #600:
    104 Pages! No reprints! No ads!
    You get a 61 page lead story by myself, John Romita Jr., Klaus Janson, and Dean White
    A 12 page story by Stan "The Man" Lee and Marcos Martin
    All-new short stories by:
    Kelly and Fiumara
    Waid and Doran
    Guggenheim and Breitwesier
    Gale and Alberti
    Wells and Donovan

    Plus special one-page features by:
    Brubaker, Loeb, Bendis, Fraction, McKone, and Janson

    Added bonus: Each issue contains actual blood, sweat, and tears from Steve Wacker & Tom Brennan– the hardest-working editorial team in the UNIVERSE

    And, of course, a gorgeous cover by John Romita Jr. –with alternate covers by Alex Ross, Joe Quesada, and the legendary John Romita Sr.!

    That’s close to a TPB’s worth of material for $4.99!

    And, if you’re in NYC… CAKE!"

     This issue sounds awesome! Why do I live in England – no cake for me 🙁

  27. Avatar photo Fett02 says:
    July 21, 2009 at 4:24 pm

    I’m happy for no reprints as that’s what they usually do a lot in this 100 page specials.

  28. Avatar photo miyamotofreak says:
    July 21, 2009 at 5:44 pm

    This sounds so awesome.

  29. Avatar photo WinTheWonderboy says:
    July 21, 2009 at 6:02 pm

    Is this a done in one or part of a story line?

  30. Avatar photo miyamotofreak says:
    July 21, 2009 at 7:36 pm

    I believe done in one.

  31. Avatar photo DarthDuck says:
    July 21, 2009 at 7:44 pm

    So I heard this rumor that there are no reprints in this issue.  Is that true?

  32. Avatar photo RoiVampire says:
    July 21, 2009 at 8:22 pm

    @DarthDuck  Thats what i heard on the streets… and by streets i mean the little isles in between the longboxes at my comic shop

  33. Avatar photo bobdoad says:
    July 22, 2009 at 10:33 am

    i may just go to my lcs on my freaking lunch break i’m so excited for this. coooooome on 430, i got some nerding out to do.

  34. Avatar photo Jim says:
    July 22, 2009 at 3:29 pm

    Found this terribly boring– had to really start skimming some pages at one point.  I did enjoy one page of the book, but overall it just did nothing for me.

  35. Avatar photo Slockhart says:
    July 22, 2009 at 7:16 pm

    Man… I have to take a break from reading this thing.  So far though, its not terribly interesting.

  36. Avatar photo crazychris says:
    July 22, 2009 at 10:45 pm

    Well, I got my butt to the store early and was able to snag the Romita Sr. variant for $11.99, not too bad. Those fake covers were hilarious. Felt like it took the whole afternoon to read. In the end, I’m happy with my purchase.

  37. Avatar photo supertrackmonkey says:
    July 23, 2009 at 1:21 am

    @ crazychris: You got ripped off. I paid $4.99 for the Romita Sr. variant.

  38. Avatar photo crazychris says:
    July 23, 2009 at 2:06 am

    @supertrackmonkey, wow thats great, cover price for a 1:25 variant. Your LCS owner must have a crush on you or something. It looks like most web sites are charging 15-20 dollars, so I don’t think I got burned, but I didn’t get a deal like that.

  39. Avatar photo captbastrd says:
    July 23, 2009 at 5:03 am

    While I didn’t really love the main story (a little too exposition-y and generally sub-par dialogue for my liking. I’m also starting to agree w/ what Sonia said when she was on the podcast during the Character Assassination run, that JRJR’s action scenes are great, but outside of that, a tad lacking) I couldn’t resist giving this a 5 for the great back-ups. Especially the Uncle Ben story. I shed some ‘I Kill Giants’ tears for that one.
    Plus Marcos Martin drawing a Stan Lee story that didn’t sound dated?? (Though, is it wrong of me to think that it was going to be a deeper exploration of who Spidey truly is, which of his two identities are the real him, and other psycho-analytical mumbo jumbo? Yes, yes it is because then I’d never get Martin drawing Spider-Hulk!)

  40. Avatar photo cromulent says:
    July 23, 2009 at 1:15 pm

    Totally worth the money, this issue it is.

  41. Avatar photo captbastrd says:
    July 23, 2009 at 3:27 pm

    Oh, wait, one nitpick! When Doc Ock’s talking about how he’s going to die soon, why is Spidey all "Yeah, in a cell in Ryker’s!" I mean, doesn’t his code against killing extend to concern over someone’s life, good or bad? I know the story is that there’s nothing that can be done to save Otto, but shouldn’t our hero be a little more sympathetic? Or at the very least, not a total dick about it?

  42. Avatar photo Zeppo says:
    July 23, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    Loved it! If Marvel want to scape the three times a month format, and charge $5 for Spider-man novel like what Slott and JRJR put out this month, I’d be for that.

    Spider-man got me into comics, this reminded me why I still read them. I thought the Return of Doc Ock was a great story. I was afriad they’d mess with his look, but he was creepy for a change. It was great!

  43. Avatar photo lantern4life says:
    July 23, 2009 at 6:14 pm

    Wow I spent most of my day reading this and I loved every page of it.  I haven’t finished all my books yet but this is POW contender for me.

  44. Avatar photo Fvckstick says:
    July 24, 2009 at 8:34 am

    i didn’t find it all that interesting. Once i saw it had such a high POTW percent, i was thinking this was gonna slay my thoughts on Tales of the corps being POTW, but this seemed like about 40 pages in, i was reading just to finish it, not really enjoying it.

  45. Avatar photo 0and18 says:
    July 24, 2009 at 7:08 pm

    @ Jim:  What did you find boring?  Have you been reading this run for a while or did you just pick up 600?  Just wondering.

  46. Avatar photo DarkKnightJared says:
    July 25, 2009 at 4:49 am

    Read it at my store–not a bad story, really, but I had the same thought whenever I see an interesting thing in ASM nowadays–nice, but did we really have to go through the character-rape that was One More Day to do this?

    I’m sure that others will say I’m stubborn for it–but I don’t like having writers talk down to me saying that something I liked about a character is dead now just because they couldn’t write it well enough. Plus it saves me money for other books I like.

  47. Avatar photo cactus4million says:
    July 25, 2009 at 10:31 pm

    Dig Steve Diko as the second psychiatrist in the Stan Lee story.

    Loved this issue. Great art and interesting stories, what more could you ask for?

  48. Greg says:
    July 26, 2009 at 11:14 am

    "Read it at my store…"  How did you pull that off?  It was over 100 pages long!  And can we all please choose a different phrase other than "character-rape".  It’s really offensive and puts things totally out of perspective.

  49. Avatar photo devildog says:
    July 26, 2009 at 3:58 pm

    Usually with a 100 page book, at least one or two of the stories disappoint.  Not the case with this one, great from cover to cover.  (whichever variant you decided on…)

  50. Avatar photo Mangaman says:
    July 27, 2009 at 3:56 pm

    Man… PICK OF THE WEEK!!!

    Not to sound corny but I laughed and I cried (erm well I got choked up on parts). It was worth my five bux. I was more satisfied with this comic than I was with the previous Old Man Logan Issue (which is saying alot).

  51. Avatar photo kwisdumb says:
    July 27, 2009 at 9:20 pm

    Excellent! 5/5.

  52. Avatar photo Imjustbettr says:
    July 29, 2009 at 2:47 am

    The only thing that sucked where the covers. They were drawn by great artists, but none of them wowed me this time.

  53. Avatar photo JohnnyPHreak says:
    August 16, 2009 at 12:30 pm

    How could this not have been POTW?! Easily the best contained Spider-Man story I’ve read in a long while. It feel like a big budgeted superhero action film. Everything is damn near perfect. I loved (and laughed during) the Storm/Spidey scenes. Classic. Excellent villain. Even though I was spoiled about the ending, I didn’t know the context around it. It was still quite stunning and I might have said a small "oh sugar!".  

  54. Avatar photo nuclearman says:
    August 26, 2009 at 5:55 am

    I really don’t like jrjr’s artwork. Thought the story wasn’t bad but I couldn’t get into it.

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