Make Mine Multiversity Episode 133: Never Mess With Science Majors: Spider-Verse (2014)

About this episode

Elias and Jaina discuss the original 'Spider-Verse' comic arc while critiquing Dan Slott's work on 'Spider-Man'.

Elias has found a new pastime: griping about Dan Slott on "Spider-Man." Jaina would love to show him the good Slott books she's read. Elias caved and decided he could gripe about Slott AND read a good Slott comic by revisiting 1 of 2 arcs he's actually read: the original "Spider-Verse." Folks. If you've only seen the movies, this shit will be a wild trip. Spider-Gwen! SP//dR! Silk! The worst Silk plot point ever! Spider-Woman as a pirate? And something a little...Superior. For those wanting Spidersman, check out "Spider-Geddon." You will be horrified but you won't be disappointed. Want to read along with us? Here ya go! We read "Superior Spider-Man" #32-33, "Edge of Spider-Verse" (Vol. 1) #1-5 and "Amazing Spider-Man" (2014) #7-15. For completeness's sake, they also read "Spider-Verse" #1-2, "Spider-Verse Team-Up" #1-3, and because they really wanted to roll deep "Scarlet Spiders" #1-3, "Spider Woman" (2014) #1-4, "Spider-Man 2099" (2014) #6-8, and "Free Comic Book Day: Guardians of the Galaxy" (2014) #1. Don't ask for an actual reading order. It's all kind of a mess. Next time, "Captain America" (2012) #1-10. Simple! Easy! You probably don't even have to read it.

People in this episode

Host: Jaina

Topics covered

• Spider-Verse
• Spider-Man
• comics
• Dan Slott

Keywords

• Spider-Gwen
• Silk
• Spider-Woman
• Superior Spider-Man

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Superior Spider-Man #32-33, Edge of Spider-Verse (Vol. 1) #1-5, Amazing Spider-Man (2014) #7-15, Spider-Verse #1-2, Spider-Verse Team-Up #1-3, Scarlet Spiders #1-3, Spider Woman (2014) #1-4, Spider-Man 2099 (2014) #6-8, Free Comic Book Day: Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) #1

Books & works: Never Mess With Science Majors: Spider-Verse, Spider-Man, Spider-Verse, Spidersman, Spider-Geddon, Superior Spider-Man, Amazing Spider-Man, Spider-Verse Team-Up, Scarlet Spiders, Spider Woman

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