Spider Man

[amalthia]

I think i'm obsessed with Spider Man and I can't really find any good fan fics for this comic book series. I checked out fanfiction.net but they have 715 stories and none of them are NC-17 as far as I know. Plus I read a lot of the story summaries...scary.

My brother, Justin says Spiderman is actually a good comic book series and his favorite villian is Venom. So I went to find pictures for Spiderman and discovered I suck at researching or there just aren't any good websites that give information about the Spiderman comic universe.

X-Men has many websites that give information about each of the characters. and I can't even find one website about Peter Parker.

I'm giving up looking for today since I need to finish filling out a resume on Monster.com and finish editing part 2 of spellbound.

Comments

[amalthia]

ah that could be the problem. :) thanks for the tip. :)

[werewolf-song.livejournal.com]

Well, if you're entering "Spiderman" as one word instead of "Spider-Man" (which is the proper spelling) as search terms, you're probably missing the best stuff. (Also, I'm not sure if it'll count "Spider Man" and "Spider-Man" as the same thing. Gotta be exact.)

Try this: www.spiderfan.org

That's my favorite Spidey site right now.

[amalthia]

thanks again! :) I'm checking out the website now.

[amalthia]

The Spider-Man universe seems rather confusing. :( there are so many titles, how do you know what comes first?? hmm don't have to answer, I'll read the FAQ...it may have tips for people just finding the comics.

though I think I'm interested in seeing how well they turned Spider-Man into Manga. :)

[werewolf-song.livejournal.com]

I don't even try to keep track of it. I'm not really into comic books because of all the multi-part cross-title stories. Everything has elements from last month's Avengers and Hulk and will be followed up in next month's X-Factor and Daredevil... it's lik e if you don't have *every* Marvel title for the past three years or so, forget it. Combine that with the artists running wild: the prevalance of one- to three-frame "panorama pages" drastically cuts down on the amount of story you can tell in an issue, s o instead of part three, you're looking for part eight (or, rarer but not rare enough, part twelve or sixteen.) I guess the question is "How obsessed are you and how much time and money do you have?"

"The Amazing Spider-Man" is the one title I've found t o be different. Most issues are complete in themselves and the ones that aren't are continued in the same title. (Not to say that there aren't ongoing threads. Just that each issue tells a story as opposed to being one jigsaw piece.) Also well-written and well-drawn. It's the only one I buy. As for the different titles, I don't know how the apparently-concurrent ones relate to each other, but I do know that with Amazing, you don't have to know that to enjoy it, and I do know the AU/semi AU ones:

* Untold Tales of Spider-Man takes place when he first became Spider-Man, back in high school. Sticks to the established continuity but takes place in the past. A *little* cross-title-ness but not so bad you *need* that 1960s Avengers story to understand what's g oing on.

* Titles with Ultimate in the name take place in an alternate continuity, Peter beginning his Spidey career in the present day. Prepare for multi-part cross-title syndrome with other Ultimate titles, Spidey and non-Spidey.

* Spider-Man 2099, ta king place in 2099, appears to have little to nothing to do with the Spidey-verse as we know it (though I don't read it to o often so I wouldn't know for sure.) Potential multi-part cross-title syndrome with the other 2099 titles.

* Spider-Girl takes pla ce in the nearer future and the main character is the daughter of Peter and Mary-Jane (who are, yes, alive and present. Other Spidey-verse characters show up as well.) Spider-Girl, being a semi-alternate future, (not true AU but considered out of continuity so as not to limit the writers of titles taking place in the present day.) can't suffer from multi-part cross-title syndrome (unless the recent alternate future titles J2, Avengers Next, and X-People, take place at the same time. I don't know they do, I don't know they don't. But I do know they're newer than Spider-Girl, so there's *years* of Spider-Girl that are certified cross-title chaos free.)

* Spider-Woman: I don't read it, but I know from online that they don't have anything to do with Spider-M an. (There have been three Spider-Women that I know of.) I don't know if it's still in print or who the current Spider-Woman is.

Hopefully that helps weed the garden some.