User blog:Nausiated/Lo, There Shall Be an Ending (or How I went through the first 180 odd Amazing Spider-Man stories and kept my sanity)

Since I tasked myself with writing summaries to every comic book that I have at my disposal at the Marvel and DC Wikis, I usually had the benefit of having breaks between different titles that I was doing. You know, as I continue to collect Essential and Showcase Presents books, I'd do a book of Adam Strange, then flip over to Marvel and do some Ant Man. It wasn't very often that I'd do long runs of any particular title. To date, I think the biggest number I had gone through was the first six volumes of Fantastic Four... So I've hit a milestone today, I've finished going through the fist EIGHT Spider-Man essentials. Covering Amazing Spider-Man #1 to 183 (Plus related annuals, giant-sizes and cross over issues) It was daunting to go through all that Spider-Man stuff. His supporting cast can be cumbersome and the plots down right detailed. You have to keep track of everyone because what the supporting cast does matter as well. Ah well... Last time I mentioned the Spider-Mobile... I think the advent of the Spider-Mobile was a tongue and cheek poke at Batman having a vehicle for everything, it shows because the concept was ridiculous. So much so, even Spider-Man himself thought the Spider-Mobile was a stupid idea (But hey he needed the money that an ad firm was paying him to drive around in it.) Anyway, an amusing set of stories. Check it out. I'm done with Spider-Man for now. I'm going to do some back pedaling do FF Vol 7, Silver Surfer Vol 2, Brave and the Bolt Batman Team-Ups Vol 3, and depending on if I'm finished reading it, Hawkman Vol 1 before taking a swing at some Spider-Woman and Supergirl.