This is absolutely NOT a five-star read: not with FUNERAL FOR AN OCTOPUS, UNLIMITED issue 8, and PLAYERS AND PAWNS included. But the initial build-up, with Peter finding a new lease on life and Ben discovering he wants a life now, is super compelling and surprisingly well drawn (for the time). Add in a blast of pure uncut nostalgia, and you have a book I cant help but love.

The clone saga is still entertaining through this collection.

Whoa! I really plowed through this one. And I even enjoyed it. It's still pretty weak material but I did get into the spirit of the thing and had fun with the book. Off to book three.

Bleh. This decision to put everything in chronological order was really dumb. I hate seeing the little notes from editors that tell me that something that "already happened" is coming.Also Peter cures himself with tap water in one issue and then spends four more issues getting cured by Doc Ock... It made no sense.

I had forgotten just how conveluted and this saga was when it originally was released

Still very messy, but a better read than the previous volume.

Crazy times for the wall-crawler...but I enjoyed them!

Overall, Book 2 is much better than Book 1. In Book 1, Spider-Man has extreme emotional problems due to the Chameleon making cyborgs of Peter Parker's parents, which turn on him, thus shattering his life. Also, Aunt May ends up in a coma, and Spider-Man refuses to come home to Mary Jane because he is aching to give up his life as Peter. All of this causes Spider-Man to lash out at the Scarlet Spider, which is bothersome because they should both be on the same side. Spider-Man also whines a lot i...

4,5 starsDella saga del clone dell'Uomo Ragno si é detto ogni male possibile.Quando la lessi all'epoca a me piacque molto ed ora é un piacere rileggerla di nuovo.(view spoiler)[Anche questo volume ci regala momenti indimenticabili.La morte brutale di Doc Ock (temporanea,ovvio. Siamo sempre in un fumetto Marvel dopotutto) é uno shock!La parte con il flashback dello Sciacallo e le violenze inflitte ai suoi poveri cloni é da incubi!La faccia di Peter all'annuncio di MJ é la stessa che feci io due a...

This is where the Clone Saga gets going!This is actually really good stuff. It is not till later that the story goes off the rails.

The clone saga continues. The question remains, who is the real peter Parker?

My nostalgia and curiosity get the better of me, part 2.Almost all of what I said about volume 1 is still valid here, except the novelty of the storyline is starting to wear thin--and this is volume 2 of eleven fat volumes collecting the whole storyline. The first problem with this volume is that "Complete" in the title: lumped into this book are 110 pages of superfluous, money-grab comics, like a three-part miniseries commemorating a villain's death that the writer later featured in a blog post...

You know what? It's still pretty unhinged but it's more coherent than the last collection. I'm honestly having fun, enjoying the characters and the story hasn't gotten as infamously bad as it was described to me just yet. It's pretty solid and there's even a few issues within I'd recommend as baseline "good" Spider-Man stories.

Peter sheds his human persona and becomes "The Spider", MJ becomes pregnant, return of the Jackal, and tons of questions about whether Peter Parker is a clone or not. What could possibly go wrong?Alot. And it did go wrong as this tale continues on. So much so that in short order almost everything that happened here became summarily ignored or just forgotten. But this set of comics was early in the saga, before things got a little too crazy. Although alot of radical ideas are introduced in this p...

Collects Amazing Spider-Man issues #395-399, Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man issues #218-221, Spider-Man issues #54-56, Spider-Man Unlimited issues #8, Web of Spider-Man issues #120-122, and Spider-Man: Funeral for an Octopus issues #1-3I can't imagine that this is a 5-star read to anyone else but me. I started reading comic books right before the Clone Saga started. Imagine my surprise when, having only been reading "Spider-Man" for a few months, his clones shows up. I ended up loving

Still not hating THE CLONE SAGA...however the SPIDER-MAN UNLIMITED #8 included in this may have the WORST SCRIPT I've ever read. How Tom Lyle got hired as a writer is beyond me... I know my comics have tons of poor grammar and awkward sentence structures that just don't flow, but this was fucking horrible...I dug the 'Smoke and Mirror' arc, but I can see how things might start going downhill from here...

Reprints Amazing Spider-Man (1) #395-399, Spectacular Spider-Man (1) #218-221, Spider-Man (1) #54-56, Spider-Man Unlimited (1) #8, Web of Spider-Man (1) #120-122, and Spider-Man: Funeral for an Octopus #1-3 (November 1994-May 1995). Ben Reilly is establishing himself as the Scarlet Spider while Peter finds his life thrown into chaos by the possibility he could be a clone. Peter quickly learns that the clone is the least of his problems when he finds himself poisoned and his only hope could be hi...

The arc is still incredibly convoluted (only 3 or 9 more volumes to go, depending on how you count!) but at least this volume addresses some of the concerns I had about the execution of the retcon in the first volume by the end of this one. I find it interesting that Doctor Octopus is a lynch pin of this volume, something that would be echoed in Dan Slott's take on Spider-Man in The Superior Spider-Man (even though Slott's ideas and execution are way better than the "Death" of Doctor Octopus sto...

Back from the Edge. This arc really shows how badly damaged Marvel characters were by the grim-and-gritty '90s. We already saw a deeply annoying grim-and-dark "Spider" in the previous volume. Here he's joined by dark Puma, dark Vulture, dark Owl, and dark Daredevil. Fortunately, the arc has a few saving graces: the writing of J.M. DeMatteis; a good subplot concerning MJ; and the fact that the point of the arc is to pull some of these characters out of grim and gritty [5+/10].Web of Life. And now...

Det är 90-tal, det är kloner, det är ren nostalgi.