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Subscription suggestions for little bro

 
 
paw
22:45 / 28.06.02
o.k so my little brother just turned 12 yesterday. Being the generous big bro that i am, recently I've started buying him x-force due to fact that i actually found a comic shop fairly near where i live. he already reads my New X-men and he's bought Wolverine and Gambit but he has a really big thing with spiderman due to the film etc. Which title should i subscribe to Amazing Spider Man or Ultimate Spiderman? any other good spiderman titles worth considering?
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
23:12 / 28.06.02
Mm. I would think that the Ultimate Spider-Man comics are more accessable and have more in common with the movie. The Amazing Spider-Man has beautiful John Romita Jr. artwork, but is about an older, continuity-based Spider-Man which is a bit harder to get into.

Now, if only Ulimate Spider-Man was drawn by JRJR instead of fucking Mark Bagley...

It might not be a bad idea to get him a couple of those big black + white "Essential" compilations that Marvel has put out, the kind with two years worth of comics in each volume. Getting him a Lee/Ditko Spider-Man and a Claremont/Byrne X-Men (there's one volume that collects everything from the first Alpha Flight story through the Hellfire Club and Dark Phoenix til after Days of Future Past - that's a lot of major X-Men stories for $15) seems like a good idea too.
 
  
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