This episode we cover Amazing Spider-Man 661-662 where Spidey substitute teaches at Avengers Academy.

We discuss:

• How the Avengers Academy kids are the worst at names.
• What happens when you make characters to appeal to demographics.
• That Striker is just the worst.
• These comics would be better with more Metal Gear Solid.
• Matt's disgust over "super-terrorists".
• Nicoli tries to justify that the phone game of the same name is really good, you guys.

We also begin our coverage of the lead-ins to Spider-Island.

Covering:

Amazing Spider-Man 661-662; backups from 659-660, 662 

We go into Venom's solo series which is everything Matt wanted and hates at the same time. Nico goes over a brief history of Kraven the Hunter. We discuss what the book's status as a spinoff means and how it affects it. We also find the best facial hair related art error so far.

Covers Venom (2011) #1-4

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More Deaths! Johnny Storm sacrifices himself for his teammates and Spidey takes his best friend's place. They go on weird cosmic adventures and take time to mourn Johnny. More pressingly, Carlie gets...A Tattoo. 

Covering Amazing Spider-Man #657-660 and material from Fantastic Four #587-588 and FF #1

Correction: Nicoli mistakenly says Ditko worked on Fantastic Four #1. It was Jack Kirby and he knew it. 

We bop around four different issues, the backups from ASM 652-654 and ASM 654.1, to talk about stories that bear little relevance to our ongoing plot. First Spidey and Power Man battle the Looter and awaken a Lovecraftian horror in an ad for the Power Man and Iron Fist series. Then Flash Thompson becomes Agent Venom and sets up his own ongoing. We also talk about: Marvel’s .1 Initiative, Flag Smasher: Enemy of the System, and most importantly, we learn about Matt’s secret love of  Beyblades.

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We try to do something cool and fail. We try to tell a story that ties in somewhat to the upcoming movie Spider-Man: Homecoming, Amazing Spider-Man 529-531 "Mr. Parker Goes to Washington". It's our first time discussing actually bad comics and honestly, we spend a good deal of time trying to avoid discussing them.

Featuring:

Objectification!

Poor choices of insults directed at Russians.

Strawmen political villains.

Sadly not featured:

Iron Man being in the Illuminati.

CONTEST: Email us a better idea of what we should have done for a movie tie-in episode, and the top three will get a digital code for a comic!

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We get real sad as we deal with the death of Marla Jameson, in a psychedelic nightmare, and then encounter the deadly Massacre. Lots of character stuff, lots of great art, lots of dead people as we recap Amazing Spider-Man 655-656: No One Dies!

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We return, as does the Spider-Slayer with a devious plan to destroy J. Jonah Jameson. Covering Issues 652-654 and backups from previous issues. Villains have daddy issues, Nicoli briefly explains the history of Squirrel Girl, and Matt's patience for Dan Slott's geekery wears thin. Guest starring the New Avengers (who really need a better name)!

Correction-In the Doc Ock Watch Segment, Nicoli mistakenly refers to Octobots as Spider-Slayers. We apologize.

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This is a test. For the hour, this podcast will conduct a test of the Emergency Spidey System. This is only a test. 

Recorded as a test episode to judge Nicoli and Matt's chemistry as cohosts, we're proud to bring you our recap and discussion of Amazing Spider-Man #600. Issue 600 was a landmark issue and set up the long game for Dan Slott's regular run. 

As you might guess, it's a little rougher than the show proper, so look at it more as a behind the scenes and judge us not too harshly. The microphones are off, there's a weird tone sometimes and Matt was recorded on both of our channels. (So don't look at this as representative of our show going forward.)

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First Episode! We dive right in with Amazing Spider-Man issues 648-651, the story that provides the title to our show. Meet Peter Parker and his supporting cast, and meet us too! We talk about exposition and how it's used to set up a long-running tenure, flaming swords, and how good Humberto Ramos does body language. Face front, Tigers, this is the start of an amzing journey.

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