I really liked Dan Slott's run up until Superior Spider-man ended. It felt pretty fresh and interesting to me

Not a lot of people know, but Dan Slott was hired as a consultant writer for Insomniac's Marvel's Spider-Man, especially since the game story is loosely based on his Big Time story run. He was also one of the writers for Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions, the game that basically kickstarted the whole Spider-Verse concept back to life. So love it or hate him, Slott's one of the most influential Spider-Man writers to date. I don't think there's denying that. A lot of his ideas were great too, even if a handful of them were often not executed that good.

Even Dan Slott's worst Spider-Man comics are better than the shit we got currently. He wasn't the best of the best but a really solid writer, with some great stories and ideas.

Green goblin: it’s you. Spider-Man: the one and only. One of my favourite Dan Slott moments.

The thing with Superior Ock is that it's not really anything new in the sense that we've seen this side of Ock before. We've seen him be willing to be altruistic and help Spidey out, or caring for May or even respecting Spidey on a professional level. It's also not necessary for him and is kinda ooc to inhabit his foe's body in the sense that he would want his triumphs and victories and accomplishments to be recognized as being made by him, Otto Octavius. Not as the Superior Spider-Man inhabiting his foe's abilities, body, personal life, reputation, everything. He would do it on his own, and either way it's gets undone later when he's back to being a villain again lol. These kinds of things never stick anyways because of the nature of superhero comics.

Marvel. Please for the love of every God and creation, hire this man and let him have FULL CONTROL of Spider-Man comics. And fire that hack Zeb Wells

I loved most of Dan Slotts run. To bad most of the progress Peter made as a character had to be thrown away

Zeb Well's Spider-Man era makes Dan Slott's era of Spidey look like a masterpiece
Hell I even loved Spider Verse and Superior Spider-Man since they were really interesting and intriguing

I think Spidey has always been tech based.

The difference between then and Dan Slotts run is that during Big Time he got access to more resources he could use, therefore he was able to develop more vomplex and expensive tech.

But he has always been tech based. The first time he captures Vulture he created an magnetic inversor to get his wings. In the early run he created the web-shooters, spider-tracers and even the spidey-signal, all low budget tech that he relied heavily upon in the original run.

The problem with MCU spider-man is that the tech he is using is not really his, unlike the PS4 counterpart. MCU Peter got most of his tech from Stark and even when he made it on his own, it was using Starks resources, therefore depending on other hero to do his thing, something that no other version of the character ever did as their baseline behaviour.

To me Peter's growing story ended years ago. Clone Saga was a slight regression, but opportunity to set up the idea that he'd have to start balancing his family life with MJ and a kid on the way with being Spider-Man. OMD completely ruined that and regreessed him to basically early days, like a reboot without being a reboot. I think coming up on the 1000th issue of Spider-Man, (we are #919 with Wells ASM #25) I think there is enough time between now and then to hammer out a game plan for the next status quo shake up. I believe they should start building toward that soon around issue #930, we should start seeing a shift. I think for one it is time to put the drama between Peter and MJ to rest. Get them together, literally every other media adaptation of Spider-Man has this coupling, OMD has lasted long enough, and people have been begging for 16 years, enough is enough. Issue #930 should be the start of a run that sees them start to draw into each others orbit once again. Realize this in #950, get them back together in that issue ( I think 950 can be counted as a mile marker at least, not a full on milestone.) For the 20 or so issues, start to break down the Mephisto deal, the closer these two get, the closer Peter comes to proposing the more the memories he lost in the deal start to come back. Just little things like referencing when they were having money issues and MJ was worried about telling him, or the night they spent in the hospital when they 'lost' the baby. Just little things, that eagle-eyed fans might pick up on, or might even draw some people into checking out your back issues, for details. Then around #975-980, Peter remembers it all, the deal finally breaks down and they can finally be together again as they were.

These last 20 issues should be treated as the race to the big #1000 a milestone of milestones. In this period, Peter and Mj are on the up and up, but not everything is great. Before proposing, Peter wants to get his life together on both sides. As Spider-Man he starts to fight smarter, ending fights with the least amount of damage possible, and as efficiently as possible. As Peter he's looking for work that could accommodate his heroic activities without jeopardizing his employment. Maybe he looks into working at Stark Industries (if Tony still has the company by then), his old job at Horizon, something in the Baxter Building with the FF, maybe he could even convince Reed and Sue to relaunch the Future Foundation as a place for young minds and young heroes, and work there as a mentor and/or teacher. In between all of this from the moment the deal started to break down and Peter and MJ grew closer, Mephisto should've been aware and doing all he can to stop it, even going as far as to use Norman and return him to Green Goblin with all the memories and knowledge of pre-OMD and everything else he may have forgotten.

In the final 10 issues, I'd have everything come to bear. Norman returns as the Green Goblin, but with his sanity in check, enough to plan something big. He reunities the Sinister Six, maybe even the Sinister Tweleve and sends them all after Spider-Man. Peter has to run a gauntlet of his entire rogues gallery, and at the end #998-999, Norman Osborn recreates the Night Gwen Stacy Died, using MJ as a stand in for Gwen. Peter and Goblin have a huge fight, MJ goes over the bridge, but he makes the save this time. Him and Norman continue to go at it, and Peter pulls off the win, ending the night and issue, proposing to MJ in front of all his friends and allies on the hero side.

Issue 1000 would be a special 50 or so page issue (maybe more, it is Spider-Man after all) and this issue is the grand payoff, the Wedding between Peter and MJ. An actual big wedding, paid for by Stark as a wedding gift to the both of them. Everyone is in attendance, from Avengers to X-Men to FF, for the hell of it why not have the Inhuman Royal Family make an appearance. Along with the civilian friends and family of Peter and MJ. Just this huge bash, for the two of them. *Excuse for why all the heroes are around, is Tony wanted the wedding to be huge and something to remember as a thank you to MJ for helping him and his mother with Stark back in the ANAD Era*. Felicia is there as a bridesmaid. Peter has Wolverine as one of the groomsmen ( a bit of payback for the Hellfire Gala just before AXE). This will be extremely controversial but I think in a bit of a surprise Wanda or Stephen, someone one with magical ties, can conjure up Gwen Stacy, and let her speak to Peter and MJ and finally put the nail in her coffin, letting her rest once and for all. Aunt May is a the Maid of Honor, special considerations.

At the Altar while reciting their vows MJ recites her vows and somewhere in there, near the end of her vows, she purposely let's it slip that Peter is not only going to be her husband, but also a father. Ending with her rather iconic; "Face it Tiger, you just hit the Jackpot."

I would love to say the end, but for all the happiness in this, I think there should still be a bit of a bittersweet note. After voes and the kiss. Aunt May is the first to congratulate them, on both their marriage and the +1. Before making room for others to do the same, while she watches from the side. At the height of this happiness, Aunt May approaches MJ and starts to talk to her. She ask her to look after Peter, and reverts back to treating him like a child, telling her all thethings he likes and dislikes. MJ powers through it, but soon starts to realize that something is wrong. Aunt May starts to fade away, becoming see through like a ghost. MJ screams for Peter, he rushes over, finding Aunt May disappearing. She finishes talking to MJ and turns to Peter, opens with "No deals this time. You have a good life, a beautiful wife, and what's certain to be a beautiful child. You have to let go, not everything is your responsibiltity." and just before she disappears completely, Ben appears beside her taking her hand. In clear view of everyone the two share a final hug with each other before disappearing completely.    

Ending the issue with a finally look a the place Aunt May and Ben disappeared with a ray of light on the horizon signaling a new day and by extension the start of a new chapter for Peter.

At that point I'd probably put Main Spider-Man on a few months break. Try out a book with Ben as Chasm inspired by Peter's big fight and the wedding, to take his life into his own hands. Have him try out the hero thing once again, now as Chasm and trying to find himself but also being a bit confused as he tries to live up to Peter Parker's display against his rogues gallery. Let Kaine and Maddie Pryor join in on this book here and there as they both offer their own insights, and maybe have him meet the other Spider-people like Cindy and Julia (going to Julia mainly to find out what his path is rather than finding out along the way).

Have you guys noticed that in Dan Slott's run of Spider-man, Peter rarely makes the self deppreciating inner monologing of his. First, I was not a fan of rapid Slott's inner monologing of the stuff that's happening around him or what he feels and etc. Then I realized maybe it was part of his growth. It's as if tho he grew out of it. He was finally winning.

Sorry for commenting again but I just remembered, Lewis cast didn’t come out last month

Loved the video.Can you do a video recapping the superior Spider-Man?

Dan Slott’s run is my favorite!

I liked slott actually tried new stuff. He pushed characters outside of your comfort zones. He made norman Osborn and doc ock global treats and took peter away from the street level. Unrelated but I always thought professor would be a perfect job for peter. Teacher and scientist in one.

I ended up finding a signed copy from him of Vol1 of The Amazing Spiderman! (2014) it’s the 157th one out of 600 signed copies! Definitely a cool first time comic purchase😎

Zeb Wells Tasm run being “Not that really good.” is an understatement it’s like saying Sins Past is masterpiece. Just wish they let Peter grow and let him get his PhD again and rebuild Parker Industries.

Id love to see this kind of video on the run after with Nick Spencer

I remember how much of a controversy the superior story was. Honestly, I liked the character but not his origin. I would have liked it more if it was something like Otto got a clone body and tried competing with peter like volume 2. I just  feel like how otto became superior was just a big punch to the stomach for the spiderman fans. Not only did peter die, he died in a pretty morbid and screwed up way

Hey Lewis, what time is the true intentions commentary track coming out on Friday? By the way, I really enjoyed the film. It was fun, intense and a perfect start to yours, conners and Holly’s films. Can’t wait for the sequel with paul as Spider-Man 😂