/r/Spiderman
The subreddit for the Marvel character and friendly neighborhood wall crawler, Spider-Man
The Subreddit for Spider-Man comics, movies, and TV series
Rules
Please keep all posts civil and follow reddiquette. Any racism/homophobia/transphobia and anything of the sort will be met with bans as well as threats of violence and personal insults towards writers and fans. Critical discussion about comics and movies must be constructive. This includes the self-promotion guidelines.
No Tired Posts/Overdone subjects. Includes: Asking if a certain actor is underrated/the best/most accurate, "Am I the only one who liked", "Why do people hate on", “Who best love interest”, “How to fix 616”, “Muh big bad Marvel Studios/Sony”, all tier lists/polls, overdone topics like Zeb Wells’ poor treatment of characters and Morrigan shipping, bot reposts for karma farming, overdone comic panels such as McFarlane’s MJ, recent reposts, scoopers/leaks, and posts that are just pictures with easily answered questions/opinions.
No sharing or asking for links to download pirated content. This includes panels obviously taken from a pirate site (like ReadComicsOnline banners and screenshots of the link).
All posts must be related to Spider-Man, or any related characters. This does not include parody characters.
Spoiler posts must be tagged and marked as such up to 2 weeks of release. Spoilers must never be in the thread title, this will lead to the post being removed.
Memes, shitposts, and other types of those posts are not allowed on the subreddit as they lead to too many low effort posts. These are now moved to r/SpiderManCirclejerk.
Art: Credit the artist or mark as [OC]. Uncredited work will be removed. Please include the artist’s name in the title of the post. AI artwork is not allowed at all. If a post includes a comic panel/page, it must include the source of it in the comments or in the title, unless it is asking which comic the panel/page is from. If not, it will be removed. Maximum page number for comic posts is 6.
Cosplays are allowed unless they're mainly for OnlyFans promos.
Comic Book Help
Most Current Runs
| Some | Heading | Names |
|---|---|---|
| Amazing Spider-Man | Amazing Spider-Man by Nick Spencer: As the title says, it is back to the basics of what makes Spider-Man great and is the best the book has been in yeaaaars. This run is ongoing and the first arc is very new-reader friendly. | |
| Miles Morales | Miles Morales: Miles Morales swings back into the spotlight! Balancing a normal life, school, friends, family and super-heroing has never been easy for Miles, but when the rampaging Rhino and a cadre of mysterious criminals start plaguing Brooklyn, things take a dark turn for the young Spider-Man | |
| Spider-Gwen | Spider-Gwen: Gwen Stacy, the Spider-Woman of Earth-65, makes her sensational return! And she's picking up right where she left off, fighting crime through her home reality - unaware that it sits on the precipice of interdimensional calamity! |
Recommended Reads
| Some | Heading | Names |
|---|---|---|
| Spider-Man: Blue | Spider-Man: Blue: Spider-Man: Blue (Spider-Man: Blue #1-6). A limited series in which Peter is reminiscing events and encounters from his past and how he and Gwen Stacy fell in love. | |
| Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt | Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt: (ASM Vol 1/1963 #293-294, Spectacular Spider-Man Vol 1/1976 #131-132, Web of Spider-Man #31-32). A rightly beloved classic set very early during the Peter/MJ marriage, with a lot of raw emotion and drama, full of psychology and dark storytelling. | |
| The Alien Costume Saga | The Alien Costume Saga: (ASM Vol 1/1963 #252-263, Spectacular Spider-Man Vol 1/1976 #90-100, Web of Spider-Man #1). A bit long, but features some truly great stuff and has very often been misrepresented in media. This is not the story you may think you know from other adaptations and has a lot going for it like Black Cat. | |
| If This Be My Destiny... | If This Be My Destiny...: (ASM Vol 1/1963 #31-33). This storyline really highlights what makes Spider-Man work so well, letting Peter Parker's character truly shine with compelling drama. | |
| Happy Birthday | Happy Birthday: (ASM Vol 2/1999 #57-58, 500-502). Doctor Strange sends Spider-Man through time and space in order to help stop Dormammu. During his trip he encounters all of his greatest friends and foes. | |
| Ock/Owl Gang War | Ock/Owl Gang War: (Spectacular Spider-Man #73-79). One of the hands down best Otto Octavius storylines and one of the last times he was relevant for nearly a decade, this story also is the groundwork for the budding romance between Black Cat and Spider-Man that took hold in the early 1980s. Often an overlooked gem despite its immense historical impact on the webslinger. | |
| Back to Basics | Back to Basics : (ASM Vol 5/2018 #1-5). As the title says, it is back to the basics of what makes Spider-Man great and is the best the book has been in yeaaaars. This run is ongoing and the first arc is very new-reader friendly. |
Side Reads
| Some | Heading | Names |
|---|---|---|
| Venom: Lethal Protector | Venom: Lethal Protector: (Venom: Lethal Protector #1-6). The recent Venom film is based on this 6 issue miniseries and although it's not the greatest storyline, it is a pretty good solo outing for Venom and a good start to his run as an antihero. | |
| Sinister Spider-Man | Sinister Spider-Man: (Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man #1-4). Mac Gargan is often regarded as one of the worst hosts for the Venom symbiote. And while I generally agree, this often overlooked 4-part miniseries really is something special. Written by Brian Reed, we see Mac working for Norman Osborn’s Dark Avengers and how he handles being disguised as Spider-Man. The miniseries is delightfully twisted and laugh out loud funny. Reed’s writing is complemented with fantastic art by Chris Bachalo. | |
| Venom | Venom: Flash Thompson is given a chance to serve his country, on the condition he joins with the Venom Symbiote to become a hero once more. | |
| Spider-Girl | Spider-Girl: One of the first and longest running Marvel alternate universes remains the MC2, and for good reason! Meet Mayday Parker, daughter of the Amazing Spider-Man. Mayday remains what the standard of a legacy character should be, she is similar to her father but with a few core values changed. Seeing the supporting casts of classic ‘90s Spider-Man comics in this new but familiar world is always a treat and it really feels like what could have been had editorial been a bit different. |
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(HOT TAKE) Ultimate Spider-Man RUINED the status quo.
DISCLAIMER: I am referring to the 2000s Spider-Man Comic by Brian Michael Bendis.
Welcome to the new Black Plague. The Ultimate Spider-Man “Renaissance.” For a very very long time something in the fandom has bugged me. I wondered for a while where this desire for Doomer Edgelord Peter Parker came from. Why is it that the concept of GREAT POWER is so lacking here. Why is it that as fantastic as the Raimi films were, did I feel like I wasn’t truly getting the feeling I got from reading Stan Lee’s AMAZING Spider-Man?
Then it hit me. Ultimate Spider-Man. You know, for person who is supposed to be very powerful and promising even before he gets bit by the Spider, this kid does NOT seem that way. Let alone ULTIMATE.
Peter Parker used to be a kid with many prospects and scholarships who would rather go to science fairs than hang out with Flash and his friends at parties (who would then bully him for it.) He was the smartest guy in the room and he knew it. He was cunning and could make Jameson do whatever he wanted. He manipulated Jameson, not the other way around. You could laugh at the end of an issue in high school because Peter made easy cash, Jameson was angry that Spider-Man fooled him, and Betty was amazed at how awesome he was. He was, as MCU Peter says “so far beyond high school.” He was truly AMAZING. He didn’t NEED to be edgy to be appealing. He was the real manager at the Daily Bugle. What TRULY paralyzed him with fear, what TRULY made him anxious to the point of losing his powers at one point was NOT that HIS LIFE was in jeopardy. My goodness he’s supposed to be a working class Reed Richards with Spider powers. AMAZING. What TRULY made him anxious was the idea that he was too powerful. Not helplessness. Not danger. Not Doomerism. No. The true driving force in Spider-Man No More was anxiety. Fear of having too much GREAT POWER.
Guilt.
Am I supposed to believe that Ultimate Peter Parker is as intelligent as Reed Richards? He has no POWER over his life. He’s playing basketball, girls like him and I STILL feel completely UNCONVINCED that he is AMAZING. Instead of showing you how smart and powerful he is to the point where he has to be professional and well mannered to keep himself from causing damage, they make him a basketball star athlete who cries because he has no idea how to control his life. Poor kid. Now I understand why he was such an edgelord. He’s completely helpless. No control over his life. People have the nerve to say this is the gold standard.
Amazing Flash used to be a sympathetic character. Bookworm was an insult that had meaning to it. Coward was an insult that had depth to it. Peter was never at parties because he was distracted. We were supposed to feel compassion towards Flash because he had GREAT POWER in his own way, he was a star athlete with his own scholarships, but he was there for his friends. He was totally in the WRONG and the bully, but he was well written. Amazing Flash was truly AMAZING. This is what Stan Lee understood. Everyone in their own way has GREAT POWER. Everyone in their own way is AMAZING.
But Ultimate Flash? This guy’s no different than the rest of the Ultimate Universe. They sacrifice good writing for edge. Ultimate wants you to believe SO BAD that this is the Flash you know that they have him THROWING FOOD(even though he’s supposed to care about being on the basketball team???).
Amazing Johnny Storm was such a great character. If not for Johnny’s indirect actions, Peter would’ve given up on being Spider-Man at one point. Whether he knew it or not, he had GREAT POWER. He was truly AMAZING. This was because he was the complete anti-thesis of Flash. Flash Hated Peter because he was never around, Johnny Hated Spider-Man because he was always helping the neighborhood (jealously and envy). Where is the humanity in USM?
This Black Plague has ruined the Spider-Man PS4 subreddit. People are begging for Zack Snyder’s Spider-Man over there. It almost ruined MCU Spider-Man 3. The Ultimate Plague will forever corrupt all discourse concerning the character and all I can say is that the best thing that happened to the series is that it ended.
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I tried to make a Spider-Man skin for Fortnite but in the pen and ink style
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Thoughts on this symbiote suit look?
[Photo was taken from TASM2 videogame]
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What's your favourite Classic Suit look in spider-man games? Mine is easily shattered dimensions.
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Is Spider Man PS4 STILL Worth Playing in 2024 | 6 Years Later
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Why not both🤔
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Getting there
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spooderman
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My family when Across the Spider-Verse for Halloween
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Chris Pratt is in talks to return as Star-Lord in 'SPIDER-MAN 4'. (via: popfilms)
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Spider-verse shelf. A mix of official and KO figures.
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Any Hardshell/Leila Davis fans ?
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Reminder that Betty Brant was Peter's actual "first love", not Gwen Stacy(Amazing Spider-man #189)
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Tasm 2 Blu-ray help
How can i watch like the whole movie + the deleted/alt scenes in the movie WITHOUT the team talking, like just seeing the scene how it's made, can somebody PLEASE help me
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'KRAVEN THE HUNTER' reportedly had a budget of approximately $110 million to $150 million. via: @hollywoodreporter
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If Topher Grace will return as Venom in new projects, do you think they should make fun of him or redeem him?
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Exclusive: Spider-Man 4 – New Title and Plot Details Revealed
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'SPIDER-MAN 4' will reportedly be titled 'SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY'.🔥 🕷️(via: Production Weekly)
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Peter (@wrens_art)
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