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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1620206" data-attributes="member: 2205">I wonder.&nbsp; The Amazon reviews say the opposite; that if you know all the backstory, the books are more interesting.&nbsp; I'm not a Spidey scholar, by any means, but I more or less know the story of the major villains and such.&nbsp; I'm finding Ultimate Spiderman (and the other Ultimate lines) absolutely fantastic.&nbsp; Got rid of a lot of the camp of the originals too, which is always a good thing.In fact, I'm just catching up again on the trade paperbacks.&nbsp; One of the things I really like about these is that USM is on, what, issue 62 or so in stores now?&nbsp; And the trade paperbacks already released take you up the mid-fifties in episodes.&nbsp; They're really on top of those trade paperbacks, which is a better format to read (and collect) the comics, IMO.&nbsp; And its great not having to wait years to get them.UXM is just about as good; the trade paperbacks take us up to the late 30s?&nbsp; Early 40s?&nbsp; And the issue coming out next week is only 48.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 1620206, member: 2205"] I wonder. The Amazon reviews say the opposite; that if you know all the backstory, the books are [i]more[/i] interesting. I'm not a Spidey scholar, by any means, but I more or less know the story of the major villains and such. I'm finding Ultimate Spiderman (and the other Ultimate lines) absolutely fantastic. Got rid of a lot of the camp of the originals too, which is always a good thing. In fact, I'm just catching up again on the trade paperbacks. One of the things I really like about these is that USM is on, what, issue 62 or so in stores now? And the trade paperbacks already released take you up the mid-fifties in episodes. They're [i]really[/i] on top of those trade paperbacks, which is a better format to read (and collect) the comics, IMO. And its great not having to wait years to get them. UXM is just about as good; the trade paperbacks take us up to the late 30s? Early 40s? And the issue coming out next week is only 48. [/QUOTE]

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