r/Marvel • u/tehawesomedragon Loki • 7d ago

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u/tehawesomedragon Loki 7d ago

SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #8

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u/Oberon1993 Spider-Man 6d ago

Slott put the toys back in the box and then padlocked the box just to be safe.

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u/Geiseric222 6d ago

He’s going to open the lock in six months

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u/baroqueworks 6d ago

LMAO I wonder why they didn't advertise this as "the story where we beat Superior Spidey to death so hard not even these annoying fans will want him to return!"

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u/gsnake007 6d ago

Very disappointing, all that hype for this, what the hell slott

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u/AlphaBreak 6d ago

Honestly I'm just jazzed that they mentioned 8-Ball's work with Moon Knight.

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u/wowlock_taylan Deadpool 6d ago

Good riddence to 'superior' anything at this point.

Leave it to Slott to go 'no one can play with my toys' and going mind-wipe of Otto. Such a spiteful man he is.

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u/CatsLikeToMeow 5d ago

Remember when Marvel promoted this run by saying that Superior was back with no clones, no time travel and no gimmicks? Yeah, I do, too.

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u/TaftYouOldDog 4d ago

Marvel are so against character growth they'll undo all potential growth at least twice.

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u/DriedSocks 6d ago

Was this Superior series just to close the book on Elliot Tolliver ever making a return?

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u/redsapphyre 5d ago

Superior Spider-yawn. Hope they don't bring this back again again again, write something else, Slott. You got a good thing going with Spider-Boy, now try your hand at a new character, leave Pete and Otto alone.

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u/Expensive-Baby-1391 4d ago

So when Slott had the chance to address and fix the many confusing messes of past runs and give us a clone of peter aka a son of Octavius aka Superior Spiderman, he does the opposite and just makes it more complicated.

Someone get the author of that doc ock girl manga. He does a better job of this idea and should be in charge.

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u/Tatum-Better Silk 5d ago

I'm so mad at this shit. I loved the Superior era ( I was young and it was one of my first few arcs ). I loved Otto's redemption but wtf why does Slott always do this shit, christ alive it's blatant character regression for Otto, HE DOESN'T EVEN REMEMBER ANNA MARIA anymore? Such a waste of a book, I was so excited for a potential elliot tolliver return.

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u/Kurolegacy27 6d ago

Well this whole thing feels like a massive waste of time. The entire book being called Superior Spider-Man not only with no Superior Spider-Man but wiping out any actual chance of his return in the future. This feels like the comic equivalent of Sony’s Spider-Man Universe where the titular character is never actually in it

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u/RCero 6d ago

I liked it quite a lot (by the look of the comments, I must be the only one :P ). It was a good story with well written characters.

It's a pity they erased Ock's memories, I guess Marvel wants him as a full villain again and need to erase all traces of Peter inside him and Peter's identity before... Still, I'm sure this isn't the last time we see Superior Spidey.

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u/JingoboStoplight4887 6d ago

I like that Doc Ock’s old arms helped Peter deal with fighting a mind-controlled Aunt May, Robbie, and J. Jonah before he was able to defeat Doc Ock and save the world. It’s disappointing that this comic (and this series) ended with Doc Ock having no memory of his time as the Superior Spider-Man, Anna Marie (who pretended that she was mind-controlled) convincing Doc Ock to undo his mistakes, Supernova being free and leaving to do something, and Bailey being free from Doc Ock’s control (so that he’ll do something in his own series). Overall, this comic is okay, but disappointing.

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u/DarthTigris 5d ago

Seriously, some of you act like you are completely new to comics that have been around for decades.

Superior was great. In fact, I JUST finished rereading the initial run before reading this issue and, imho, this was one of the better status quo resets that I've read. But the truth is that it had to happen, and when the originator has the opportunity to do it, the results usually are for the best.

Now if only AMS could return to form . . .